Dear Friend, Thank you for downloading this e-book. You will find delights here for your happiness and health. You will find easy ways to heal negative beliefs, allergic reactions and the stress from any trauma -- no matter how big it was, how long ago it was or how recently it was. You can heal a heartbreak or an allergy to potatoes. This book was written in 1996. A lot of new ways to use TAT have become clear to me since then. A couple of years ago, I had breast cancer. TAT helped me heal the emotional roots of it and helped me get through the treatments. I learned a lot and put what I learned in a video or DVD for you. It’s called Healing the Emotional Aspects of Cancer, but the information in it is good for healing the emotional aspects that accompany any type of physical illness. I also highly recommend that you get the TAT Workshop 2000. There are approaches to using TAT and explanations of how it works and how to use it that you won’t find in any of the other materials. If you use TAT as part of your practice, this is really a must-have. A complete review of all the subjects covered in the TAT Workshop 2000 follows this letter. I think you will be excited to see what you can learn. You will find information in this book about energy field testing. I don’t use energy field testing anymore as part of TAT. I recommend that you just do all the Steps of TAT for whatever you want to heal. To order these materials now visit the online shop at http://www.unstressforsuccess.com My dear friend, every TAT item is full of fun and laughter. They are full of my deepest, heart-felt wishes for your happiness. I hope you enjoy them all. With TAT, healing is fun. With love, Tapas To stay updated on the latest TAT news, events, and information please visit www.unstressforsuccess.com to sign up for our newsletter. TAT 2000 Workshop Video Course Outline TAPE 1 TAPE 2 Tape # Location Tape # Location 1 0:00:00 Introduction to TAT 2 0:00:00 Muscle/energy field testing 1 0:11:43 TAT Workshop begins 2 0:14:23 Working with trauma 1 0:22:00 How TAT was developed 2 0:35:43 Extreme Trauma - Ritual abuse and rape 1 0:40:00 Explanation of the 7 Steps and how they 2 0:48:17 Entity attachments evolved 2 1:08:08 Chaos theory and TAT 1 0:58:12 The perspective from Chinese Medicine 2 1:13:12 Taking the other point of view 1 1:08:48 Why this pose has any meaning 1 1:28:07 How TAT works 2 1:19:00 Demo(cid:150) multiple traumatic surgeries 1 1:51:30 The first TAT experience 1 2:17:14 Demo (cid:150) trauma from a difficult divorce TAPE 4 Tape # Location 4 0:00:00 Review and additional information TAPE 3 Tape # Location 3 0:00:00 Allergies 4 0:02:35 Physical pain 3 02:28:14 Cravings and addictions 4 0:03:30 Eyes/Vision 3 0:34:54 Working with children 4 0:05:45 Hospice 3 0:37:44 Working with (cid:147)child parts(cid:148) 4 0:06:05 Exam stress 4 0:07:12 Spiritual growth 3 0:47:27 Working with children who have a long history of trauma 4 0:08:08 Inspiration for Artists 3 0:54:15 Things to work on with kids 4 0:14:32 Healing fears, phobias and inner darkness 3 0:57:50 Surrogate TAT 4 0:18:34 Working with animals 3 1:01:54 Transplants and surgery 4 0:25:58 Negative beliefs 3 1:05:59 The TAT Practitioner 4 0:2:31 Daily stress and obsessive thoughts § Things to do § Working with the (cid:147)stuff(cid:148) 4 0:35:28 When the first step of TAT is too § Basics of note taking uncomfortable 3 1:21:15 Your Relationship with money 4 0:39:31 Dealing with resistance 3 1:35:51 Demo on money issue 4 0:50:02 Stories from practitioners 4 1:07:38 A few last things ii You Can Heal Now The Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT) Workbook by Tapas Fleming, L.Ac. iii DISCLAIMER The information contained in this book is for educational purposes only and represents my personal experience and opinion. I have never seen any adverse side effects from TAT, but I cannot guarantee that there will be no adverse effects. While you are free to use and share the material presented here, I deny any liability caused by third party miscommunication or third parties in any way incorrectly conveying or misusing TAT. Before following or adopting any treatment or any opinion expressed in this book, you agree that you will first discuss the treatment or opinion with an appropriate physician or therapist, and that you will follow all directions precisely and heed all warnings and cautionary information. If your physician or therapist advises you against using TAT, you may receive a 100% refund by sending this book back to TAT International. By keeping this book, you accept full responsibility for the application of TAT. Tapas Fleming September 30, 1998 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Thank you to my Mom and Dad who raised me and love me and believed that I could do anything I wanted. Thanks to my husband Chris for helping me with the final details and the actual birth of the book. Thanks to Suta Cahill for editing and letting me know it was really possible to make a book. Thank you to Master Ni for his encouragement. Thank you, Gary and Kamala Dietz, for spending countless hours listening to me and playing with this new healing stuff with me and for giving me your feedback and encouragement. Thank you to Suzan Dalle who introduced me to the importance of the eyes and vision. Thank you to Dr. Devi Nambudripad for her pioneering allergy work. Thank you to my friends, family and teachers who listened to me, loved me, and cheered me on. Thank you to all my patients. Without you, none of this would have happened. First Printing March 1996 Second Edition, November 1998 Copyright 1996 by Tapas Fleming, L.Ac. All rights reserved. ISBN: iv CONTENTS Introduction 1 Part One What is a Trauma and What Does TAT Do? 3 Cellular Memory 5 Learning How to Talk to Your Body 7 The Importance of Thoughts and Intentions 9 How to Do TAT For Traumas 10 Additional Steps of TAT That May Be Necessary 15 The Great File System 17 Part Two Allergies 19 Animals 20 The Chaos Principle 22 Chemical Exposure 23 Children and TAT 24 Clearing Yourself of the Day 28 Considerations, or A Belt That’s Too Tight 29 Discovering Your Hidden Worst Qualities 31 Dream Interpretations 32 Families 33 Fears and Phobias 34 Helping an Attached Being Move On 35 Hospitalization and Other Medical Interventions 36 A Long Period of an On-Going Traumatic Life 37 Money and Success 38 Prejudice and Inherited Experiences, Stuck Thoughts and Negative Beliefs 40 Rape and Sexual Abuse 41 Recovering Parts of Yourself That Died 43 Stories 44 Surrogate Treatment 50 Veterans and TAT 51 Conclusion What’s At the Bottom of This? 53 A Review of the Four Steps of TAT 54 Testimonials 55 Appendix Protocols in Script Form for Professionals A Few Words About Myself For Further Information on TAT Recommended Reading v INTRODUCTION Both in my own life and as a practitioner of Traditional Chinese Medicine, I often wondered how to get myself or a patient out from under the negative influence of past events. It seemed that however much therapy or meditation or other forms of healing one had undertaken, certain issues never seemed to get resolved once and for all. I cannot claim to have painstakingly arrived at a solution to this dilemma. I was specializing in allergy work at the time, using a combination of acupressure and acupuncture, based on the methods of Dr. Devi Nambudripad of Buena Park, California. Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT) came to me after taking a nap in my office one day. I woke up with the thought of a particular acupuncture point, Urinary Bladder 1 (UB1), and how it could be used to heal a person's whole system. This point is called "Eyes Bright" in Chinese. I immediately began incorporating UB1 in my treatment of allergy patients with great success. After several months, a patient told me that his T'ai Chi master had told him to use that point in conjunction with one other for headaches and other problems. Although my insight was based on my training and experience as an acupuncturist, this simple confirmation of my own experience meant a great deal to me. There are many introductory books available on the subject of Traditional Chinese Medicine and energy medicine. Rather than make an extensive presentation of that body of knowledge here, I would rather share my understanding of traumas, traumatic stress, fears, allergies, fixed beliefs and attitudes, and teach you how to do TAT. A short bibliography is included at the end of this booklet if you would like to read more about Traditional Chinese Medicine and related subjects. What I have discovered from using TAT goes beyond what I learned as part of my professional training. I discovered in my acupuncture practice that our bodies, not just our minds, have memories. Not just our memories, but the memories of our ancestors. If we stop and think about it for a minute, it becomes obvious that our bodies are the products of our parents' bodies. We look like our parents, and often have similar health problems as our parents. To take it many steps further, our parents' bodies came from their parents' bodies, whose bodies came from their parents' bodies, and so on for a long, long way back. The color of your hair and your eyes, the shape of your hands and feet, your bone structure, and some of your health problems are the legacy of both your recent and ancient ancestors. Just as car manufacturers base new models on a long line of previous designs rather than reinvent the wheel, you are the latest model of your ancestry. Again, I did not arrive at this conclusion through study and thought, but through experience in my clinical practice. For example, as I was working on a patient who was allergic to dust I "saw," through subtle vision, a farmer pushing a plow and breathing in copious amounts of dirt. Big clouds of dust rose all around him as he followed his plow. Without mentioning the complete image I was seeing, I just talked to the patient about the dust of the land where she was living, and in her conversation to me she revealed that she came from a long line of German farmers. What was coming to me from her body was what I would call the living history of her body. This living history could also be called cellular memory. When someone experiences a trauma, that memory seems to be stored and passed down at a cellular level. I was inspired to explore cellular memory more deeply as I worked with another patient who, by her early 30's, had been in nine car crashes that she hadn't caused. She had suffered a concussion and other major traumas to the head, and was suffering from constant neck and headaches with a couple of migraines a week at the time I saw her. The story I "saw" as I was working with her was about a young boy of eight or so who was in a mountain cabin with his father when a crazy mountain man came in and killed his father by smashing his head open. When I mentioned this image, my patient was silent for a few moments and then told me that her father had fallen, smashed his head and died, and she was there when it happened. When she told her sisters about this, they told her that they knew of two other men in the family who had been murdered by blows to the head. They also talked about the fact that their children had suffered an inordinate amount of concussions and blows to the head in the course of growing up. I began to realize that along with TAT I had been given the gift of seeing the cellular history of a human body and that TAT was a way to heal traumas that had been passed down from generation to generation. What I have learned from working with many friends and patients over the last several years is that when the stories of these cells are heard, the traumas they have been holding are released and the cells are able to rejoin the organism they are part of and get on with the business of living. A person doesn't have to have a conscious or psychic vision of what happened in order to use TAT. The TAT pose, along with your focus on the trauma, creates a connection between the cells' memory and your function of vision. When you "re-view" the trauma, it becomes physically, mentally and emotionally integrated within moments. Before explaining the TAT method, I would first like to give you a general overview of Traditional Chinese Medicine, an explanation of the nature of traumas, what traumatic stress is and how it can be quickly and easily released. 2 WHAT IS A TRAUMA AND WHAT DOES TAT DO? Thoughts are real things with real energy. When they attempt to deny reality, they create negative energy patterns that impact your life and your health by causing your energy to stagnate. From the view of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a blockage of energy creates disease. If you think of the blockage as a boulder in your body's life flow, you can easily imagine that the life energy that would naturally be flowing along certain streams is going to be diverted. On the upstream side of the boulder, there will be dammed up energy, on the downstream side you will find a lack of energy. This creates emotional, mental and physical disharmony which is known as a yin-yang imbalance. On one side is too much, on the other is not enough. The goal of Traditional Chinese Medicine is to achieve balance. A trauma occurs when life becomes unbearable and you tell it "No." Variations on this theme include: "Hold it right there;" "This is too much for me;" "If this happens, I won't survive." This is not necessarily a conscious choice, but it is a natural one at that moment, and it sets up patterns of mental, emotional, and physical behavior. Traumatic stress is the stress to your system of continually trying to hold off the experience of a trauma. The event really did happen. Traumatic stress ends when the trauma is no longer resisted. Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on the ancient concepts of Taoism. One of the primary concepts that will help you understand how TAT works is yin and yang. These represent any two opposites. Yang symbolizes light, yin darkness. Yang is active, yin is solid or static. In the case of trauma, one side is you, the other is your trauma. If you are in a situation of holding the trauma away from yourself, you have stagnation in the flow of life. Yin and yang are meant to alternate in a dynamic flow of natural movement and change. If you consider yourself as the "victim" of a trauma and the other(s) involved in the trauma as "perpetrator,” and that this is an absolute, then no movement can occur. Within yin, there is a bit of yang. Within yang, there is a bit of yin. Yin and yang together symbolize the moving, dynamic whole. You are both yin and yang, not just one or the other. When you deny the existence of any part of your Self, then life comes to a standstill. You become cut off from life and from yourself. Your only company is your trauma. You have the power to change your relationship with a trauma by directly engaging it through TAT. TAT is a way of saying to your whole body-mind: "Have another look at this." It is an opportunity to change, based on taking a new look rather than continuing to look away. By taking another look, within the context of TAT's direction of the body's