You Can Heal Now: The Tapas Acupressure Technique

91 Pages·1999·1.16 MB·English

by  Tapas Fleming

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

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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

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You Can Heal Now

The Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT)
Workbook

by

Tapas Fleming, L.Ac.

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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:
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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
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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.
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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