Larry Nims

Larry P. Nims (1934–2024) was an American clinical psychologist who created Be Set Free Fast (BSFF), an energy-psychology method that distilled tapping-based therapies down to intention and a single cue word. Trained as a clinical psychologist and practicing for decades, Nims began within the muscle-testing and Thought Field Therapy lineage but progressively stripped the procedure of its physical components.

The name is itself a descriptive acronym — Behavioral and Emotional Symptom Elimination Training for Resolving Excess Emotions: Fear, Anger, Sadness, and Trauma — and the method rests on the premise that the subconscious mind is a faithful servant that will carry out clear instructions.

Nims matters to the mind-power lineage because he pushed energy psychology toward its purely mental limit. Where Callahan and Craig required tapping on acupoints, BSFF asks the practitioner to install a pre-agreed cue word and then simply direct the subconscious to clear an emotional charge — no tapping, no muscle test, only intention and command.

This makes BSFF a clean modern restatement of an old New Thought conviction: that the subconscious responds to deliberate, repeated instruction. It sits at the boundary where “energy” methods rejoin pure suggestion and subconscious reprogramming.