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Dear Friend,

Thank you for downloading this e-book. You will find delights here for your happiness andhealth. You will find easy ways to heal negative beliefs, allergic reactions and the stress from anytrauma -- no matter how big it was, how long ago it was or how recently it was. You can heal aheartbreak or an allergy to potatoes.

This book was written in1996. A lot of new ways touse TAT have become clearto me since then.

A couple of years ago, I hadbreast cancer. TAT helpedme heal the emotional roots ofit and helped me get throughthe treatments. I learned a lotand put what I learned in avideo or DVD for you. It'scalled Healing the Emotional

Aspects of Cancer, but theinformation in it is good forhealing the emotional aspectsthat accompany any type ofphysical illness.

I also highly recommend thatyou get the TAT Workshop2000. There are approachesto using TAT andexplanations of how it worksand how to use it that youwon't find in any of the othermaterials. If you use TAT aspart of your practice, this isreally a must-have. Acomplete review of all thesubjects covered in the TATWorkshop 2000 follows thisletter. I think you will beexcited to see what you can learn.

You will find information in this book about energy field testing. I don't use energy field testinganymore as part of TAT. I recommend that you just do all the Steps of TAT for whatever youwant 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-feltwishes 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 visitwww.unstressforsuccess.com to sign up for our newsletter.

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TAT 2000 Workshop Video Course Outline

TAPE 1Tape # Location

1 0:00:00 Introduction to TAT

1 0:11:43 TAT Workshop begins

1 0:22:00 How TAT was developed

1 0:40:00 Explanation of the 7 Steps and how theyevolved

1 0:58:12 The perspective from Chinese Medicine

1 1:08:48 Why this pose has any meaning

1 1:28:07 How TAT works

1 1:51:30 The first TAT experience

1 2:17:14 Demo – trauma from a difficult divorce


2 0:00:00 Muscle/energy field testing

2 0:14:23 Working with trauma

2 0:35:43 Extreme Trauma - Ritual abuse and rape

2 0:48:17 Entity attachments

2 1:08:08 Chaos theory and TAT

2 1:13:12 Taking the other point of view

2 1:19:00 Demo– multiple traumatic surgeries


3 0:00:00 Allergies

3 02:28:14 Cravings and addictions

3 0:34:54 Working with children

3 0:37:44 Working with “child parts”

3 0:47:27 Working with children who have a longhistory of trauma

3 0:54:15 Things to work on with kids

3 0:57:50 Surrogate TAT

3 1:01:54 Transplants and surgery

3 1:05:59 The TAT Practitioner§ Things to do

§ Working with the “stuff”§ Basics of note taking

3 1:21:15 Your Relationship with money

3 1:35:51 Demo on money issue


4 0:00:00 Review and additional information

4 0:02:35 Physical pain

4 0:03:30 Eyes/Vision

4 0:05:45 Hospice

4 0:06:05 Exam stress

4 0:07:12 Spiritual growth

4 0:08:08 Inspiration for Artists

4 0:14:32 Healing fears, phobias and inner darkness

4 0:18:34 Working with animals

4 0:25:58 Negative beliefs

4 0:2:31 Daily stress and obsessive thoughts

4 0:35:28 When the first step of TAT is too

uncomfortable

4 0:39:31 Dealing with resistance

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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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

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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 talkedabout 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 inorder 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

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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 andyang. 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 ina situation of holding the trauma away from yourself, you have stagnation in the flowof life. Yin and yang are meant to alternate in a dynamic flow of natural movementand 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 nomovement can occur. Within yin, there is a bit of yang. Within yang, there is a bit ofyin. Yin and yang together symbolize the moving, dynamic whole. You are both yinand yang, not just one or the other. When you deny the existence of any part ofyour Self, then life comes to a standstill. You become cut off from life and fromyourself. 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

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energy flow, the energetic charge that is still being held is removed from the past event and

the event can be integrated into your whole system.

There are many ways to describe the results of TAT. Integration, harmony, peace,

unity, connectedness, relatedness, oneness and wholeness are a few of the terms people have

used to express how they feel after doing TAT. I would say that TAT reunites a person with

parts of himself or herself that have been locked away or frozen in time. In the following

section on cellular memory, we will look at that concept in greater depth.

TAT gives you the opportunity to connect with the great flow of life onceagain. The experience you have doing TAT is of wholeness. This means that youand the trauma, or the victim and the perpetrator, are both experienced as a whole.There is a sense of oneness rather than separation. When you are no longer in acondition of isolation, your traumatic stress ends and there is peace. This can also

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CELLULAR MEMORY

When a trauma happens, and a person's response is, "That's too much for me," the

implication of that inner statement is, "I'll get to it later, file it away, and face it when I can,

when it isn't life-threatening." But we seem to put off forever something that we don't want

to deal with now, and the trauma that we put off stays with us. We can put time and distance

between us and the event, but the experience is still on hold. The illusion is created in our

minds that it is in the "past" and that we are now in control of our lives. However, the more

we keep a trauma locked in the so-called past, the more strongly we are connected to it, and

the more traumas we hold off like this, the more narrow and limited our lives become.

TAT dissolves the separation between "that" and "me." The energy that holds it off

dissolves and you are left with the memory, but no distortion or "boulder" in your energy

field.

When I work with people, I have a quiet conversation with the cells of their bodies

and the memories that are stored there. As I mentioned earlier, a body does not suddenly

come into being out of pure nothing. It has parents and grandparents and great-grandparents,

and back and back and back for millions of years. If the chain had ever been broken, that

body would not be here today. These conversations happen as the results of my willingness

to simply hear the history of the body in front of me.

In my work as an acupuncturist, I see the body as an energy field that can become

cluttered with pockets of stagnant energy or be open and allow its own and other energies to

flow freely through it. The cells in which old traumas are stored operate in a survival pattern

that is based on something that is no longer real or current for anyone but the person

maintaining the pattern. When an unresolved trauma impedes the flow of energy in the

body, that energy usually becomes stored or stuck in a particular part of the body, often the

organ that is most directly associated with the trauma. It might be the lungs' memory of coal

dust, the heart's memory of a deep betrayal, the stomach's memory of poisoned food, the

back of the head's memory of a crushing blow, and so forth.

When TAT is applied to a cellular memory, it does not erase the memory, it removes

the traumatic stress and allows the person to deal with life as it is now. For instance, the

lungs of a person with environmental illness may be remembering a time when breathing the

dust of dry fields or coal mines made the ancestor's body very ill. When the old traumatic

stress is gone, the cells of the lungs may find they are perfectly capable of dealing with

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If this seems strange at first, I recommend that you imagine that you have given the

cells of your body your phone number and permission to call you up. When they call, you

answer the phone and say "Hello" with the same openness you would have when you pick up

the actual telephone. You don't know who is calling or what they have to tell you, but you

pick up the phone and are open to the unknown. In that condition of openness to your cells,

you may find yourself "seeing" and "hearing" information from your cells.


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LEARNING HOW TO TALK TO YOUR BODY

In order to do TAT, it is necessary to be open to communicating with your body on its terms

and to respect what it tells you. Before doing the first step of TAT, therefore, you need to

ask the living assembly of cells that collectively function as your body if they are willing to

work on the subject or situation you have chosen to work on. This is sometimes called

muscle testing or applied kinesiology, but whatever you call it, the principle is the same: you

find a simple way in which to become aware of and communicate with the physical organism

you call your body.

When I do muscle testing, I have a sense of listening to silent voices that usually

communicate only through pain or discomfort of one kind or another. To me these are the

voices of the body's cells, and I find them not only willing but happy to be asked about their

history and to have an opportunity to answer and to heal.

This approach may be new to you, but by being open to experiencing a subtle level of

reality that may not yet be familiar to you, you allow a wealth of information to be

communicated to you, not from far away realms or spirit guides or from a guru or a fortune

teller, but from the physical sphere of your own being. The information you receive is first

hand. There is no intermediary, and you don't need any tools other than your own two hands.

One of the things I like best about muscle testing is that the variations are almost

limitless. By that I mean, while there are some standard methods, you can invent any method

that works for you. Here are two methods that I like to use.

What you are about to do is set up a clear system of communication with your body

by asking it to respond in a specific way to a yes/no question.

Palm to Palm:

Place your palms together and rub them back and forth a couple of times. Then, askyour body to use a smooth feeling to mean yes. Test it out and see how it feels. Then ask

your body to use a sticky feeling to mean no, and test it out to see how it feels.

Don't try to make a smooth or sticky feeling happen, just rub your palms together and

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Thumb and Index Finger :Rub the fleshy part of your thumb and your index finger lightly back and forth

against each other and just observe how they feel.

Now, ask your body to use a smooth feeling to mean “Yes" or "I don't have a

problem with that," and then say or think, "Body, would you please show me a yes?"Now rub your thumb and index finger back and forth to see how a “Yes" feels.

Next, ask your body to use a sticky feeling to mean “No" or "I have a problemwith that" and then say or think, "Body, would you please show me a no?" Now, rubyour thumb and index finger back and forth to see how a “No" feels.

You can set the system up either way you want to, with smooth meaning “No”and sticky meaning “Yes.” Smooth does not inherently mean “Yes" and sticky doesnot inherently mean “No." However you set it up is how your body will respond. Allyou are doing is saying, "Body, I want you to do this to mean yes, and I want you to

do that to mean no." I'm reasonably certain that your body will say, "Okay, I can dothat."

If these methods don't work for you, or if you are concerned that you'remaking it happen, or if you're concerned that these techniques conflict with yourreligious beliefs, you can put your healing in the hands of God or the Holy Spirit orsimply the divine wisdom of the universe. Whatever you call it, it is that which knowswhat is truly best for you. Entreat that divine entity, "If it is time for this problem to behealed, then may it happen now. If it is not the time for it to be healed, may ithappen when the time is right." Then you can rest in the knowledge that this eitheris or is not the right time for that particular issue to be healed.

Whether you use muscle testing or whether you put your healing in the handsof the divine, be sure to ask whether or not each step of TAT is necessary when youare working on a problem.


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THE IMPORTANCE OF THOUGHTS AND INTENTIONS

Do not underestimate the power of thoughts and intentions. Your thoughts and intentions are

real things with real energy. They are important and valuable tools that help you in your

healing process. They are not invalid just because we can't see them, weigh them and

measure them.

For instance, it is the original thought of "No!" that holds a trauma at bay and

continues to keep it at an uneasy distance from you. When you change that thought to "OK,

you happened and you do exist" then there is the possibility for a new relationship betweenyou and that person or event to exist. It is like the common experience of "Gee, you were

always there, but I never really noticed you!"

The simple act of putting your attention on that person (or trauma) is a statement on

your part, just in your thoughts and intention, of granting existence to it. It’s as if you were a

great king or queen granting someone an audience with you. You can go on ignoring a

trauma for as long as you wish, but once you consent to engage with it directly, you take the

first step in healing your relationship with it.

Ever get hurt by someone and go off in a huff? As long as you maintain your huff,

the relationship can't change. Once you engage directly with someone or something again,there is a chance for healing the relationship. You have the power to change your

relationship with a past trauma by engaging with it directly. It is your thought about it, your

intention with regard to it that holds the key to healing the past. Once you put your attention

directly on your trauma, TAT changes your relationship between you and the trauma to a

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HOW TO DO TAT FOR TRAUMAS

Preparatory Steps:

1. Pick a trauma to work on. Using your favorite biofeedback technique, ask if you can

work on this trauma now. If you can, go on.

2. Place your hands in the TAT pose illustrated below, and hold the thought, "I deserve

to live and I accept love, help and healing," for 1 minute or until you feel a sense of

release or relaxation. Do not hold the pose in the 1st step for longer than 4 minutes.

In general, this statement only needs to be done once, the first time you do TAT.


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THE FOUR STEPS OF TAT

Step One - Put Your Hands in the TAT Pose

Put Your Attention on the Problem or Negative Statement

Hold the TAT Pose for up to 4 Minutes or Until a Change Occurs

A] With one hand, lightly touch the tip of the thumb to the area inch above the inner

corner of your eye.

With the fourth finger (ring finger) of the same hand, lightly touch the tip of

the finger to the area inch above the inner corner of the other eye.

Both finger tips are now on either side of the bridge of your nose.

Place the tip of the middle finger midway between, and about ½ inch above,

eyebrow level.

You now have all three finger tips lightly touching the three points.

Now place your other hand on the back of your head, with the palm touching

the head so that the thumb is resting at the base of the skull just above the neckline.The palm is holding the base of the skull, with the little finger approximately at the

occipital ridge. Both hands should be resting gently. No pressure is necessary.

B] Put your attention on the problem as you originally experienced it, and mentally

express that experience to yourself in a verbal form. For instance, if you nearly

drowned or were mugged, you might use a statement like “This is the end!” to

express what you thought and felt at the moment that experience happened to you.

Or if you had an abusive parent or spouse, you might use a statement like, “I’m

terrified of _______.” There’s no right or wrong way to express the experience.

Whatever words naturally come to mind when you think of the experience or person

are the right words for you.

C] While putting your attention on the thought as it is most naturally expressed for you,

hold the TAT pose until you notice a change or until four minutes have passed,

whichever occurs first.

People notice different changes while doing TAT. Common changes include a

sigh, a sense of relaxation, not being able to easily focus on the situation any more,

the hands automatically coming out of the TAT position, subtle energy movements in

the body, or simply a sense of peace. Some people notice no change at all.

Put Your Attention on the Issue Again:

Notice whether any aspect of the issue or incident remains stuck. It may be a physical sensation, an emotion, a thought, a piece of the memory, a voice, or a combination

of things. It will be unique for each person. If anything remains, choose whatever stands

out most, and repeat A through C of Step One until there is nothing left when you put your

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Step Two - Hold a Positive Thought in Relation to the Item or Issue

Because most difficulties or traumas are focused around denial, they usually involve a

negative feeling or idea. Once that negativity has been dissolved by doing Step One of TAT,

it can sometimes be helpful to do TAT while holding a positive thought about the situation.

For instance, if you had worked on a feeling such as "My mother never loved me," it couldhelp complete the healing process to do TAT with the thought, "My mother has always loved

me."

First, ask your body if it would be useful to do this step. If the answer is "No," then

skip this step. If your body says yes, then put your attention on a positive statement such as,

"This (problem or negative statement) happened, and it can heal now," or “___________

happened, and I am OK,” or “________ (person’s name) did not harm me,” or “I am not

afraid of __________.”

If you have a connection with God or a Higher Power, you can put your attention on a

statement such as, "God, thank you for healing (the problem or negative statement)." Youcan also visualize or think about the problem being cleared up and healing in whatever way

you like. In either case, follow the same instructions for Step One and do TAT for about one

minute or until you feel a shift.

Step Three - Healing the Origins of the Problem

Origins can include anything that happened to you at any time, anywhere, that

brought about the existence of your problem: events from childhood, things that happened to

other people that touched you, dreams, memories, unconscious impressions, cellular

memories...whatever happened to you. You don't need to be aware of what the origins are,you can simply have the intent to heal them.

First, ask your body if it would useful to clear the origins of this problem. If the

answer is "No," then skip this step. If the answer is "Yes," then put your attention on the

statement, "All of the origins of this problem are healing now," and do TAT for about a

minute or until you feel it is done. If you prefer, you can put your attention on a statement

such as, "God (or Higher Power), thank you for healing all of the origins of this problem."

You can also visualize or think about the origins being cleared up and healing in

whatever way you like. In either case, follow the same instructions for Step One and do TAT

for about one minute or until you feel a shift.


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Step Four - Healing the Resonances or Storage Space

Traumas and negative thoughts can become stuck or lodged in different parts of the

body or in an external location such as a house or a city or country where the event

happened, or even in a group or race of people. These resonances or storage spaces are

different for each person, and each trauma may be stored differently. You don't need to beaware of the exact places where the problem has been stored, you simply need to be open to

their being healed while you do TAT.

Begin by asking your body if it would be useful to do this step. If the answer is "No,"

then skip this step. If it is "Yes," then put your attention on a statement such as, "Wherever

this has been a problem in my body, mind and life is healing now," and do TAT for about a

minute or until you feel it is done. You can also use a statement such as, "God (Higher

Power), thank you for healing all the places (this problem/negative statement) has existed.”

You can also visualize or think about the resonances or storage space being cleared

up and healing in whatever way you like. In either case, follow the same instructions forStep One and do TAT for about one minute or until you feel a shift.

Drink a glass of water!

And drink six or so glasses of water the next day. You may also want to rest after

doing TAT. A lot has changed, even though it was so simple to do and happened so quickly.

Wanting to rest is normal. You are healing!


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ADDITIONAL STEPS THAT MAY BE NECESSARY

The basic four steps of TAT will clear most traumas, but not all. If you do all four

steps and still notice something that feels stuck when you think of the incident or the person,

then one or more of the following steps may be necessary.

Anger & Resentment:

If, after doing all of the steps that your body feels are necessary, and after reviewing

the original statement you used in Step One, you still feel that there is an element of the

trauma or issue that is unresolved, check to see if there is any anger or resentment need to behealed.

Begin by asking your body if it would be useful to do this step. If it is "Yes," then put

your attention on the statement, "All the resentment I had about this problem is healing," and

do TAT for up to four minutes or until you feel a change.

Then put your attention on the statement, "All the anger I had about this problem is

healing," and do TAT again.

Forgiveness:

Often, in cases of trauma, you will need to forgive someone: yourself, others, God,

etc. Begin by asking your body if it would be useful to do this step. If it is "Yes," then putyour attention on the statement, "I forgive everyone I've blamed for this problem, including

God and myself" and do TAT for up to four minutes or until you feel a change.

Then put your attention on the statement, "I ask everyone I've blamed for this

problem to forgive me," and do TAT again.

Taking the Point of View of the Perpetrator:

If, after going through all four steps and working on anger and resentment as well as

forgiveness, something still feels stuck, then I recommend taking the point of view of the

perpetrator of the trauma.

A trauma that has not healed yet is sustained by polar opposite views of a situation:

Me vs. the Perpetrator; the good guys (us) vs. the enemy; right vs. wrong; rulers vs. slaves,

and so on. We usually believe: “I hate Them. I'm nothing like Them. I could never, would

never be like that .”

Sometimes, in order to heal a trauma completely, it is necessary to take the point of

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of view. If you can do this, a profound sense of balance replaces the trauma. Here is a story

from my practice to illustrate this point.

The first time I was set to meet my new patient, she called and had to reschedule.

She was suffering a concussion -- she'd just been thrown from a horse. After we met I found

out that being thrown from horses was not an uncommon occurrence for this perky 38-year-old woman. When she was 16, she used to ride her mare bareback everyday to a high spot on

a ridge. The ridge had room for only one horse, and at the end you could turn around and go

back. She was sitting on her horse at the end of the ridge one day when another horse and its

rider came galloping toward her! My patient, atop her horse at the end of the ridge, figured

that they would stop, but they didn't. As her horse reared up, its back legs slid off the ridge.

The horse fell down the side of the ridge, flipped head over heels, fell right onto my patient

and rolled over her before running back to the barn.

After this, my patient and the mare had a hard time getting along. My patient said, "If

she saw me coming, she would run to the other side of the pasture." She sold her mare after

a year. Not only that, all mares since that time were uncomfortable around her.

We did TAT for the original incident. Then I wondered something and asked my

patient, "Do you suppose that your mare was traumatized, too?" "Yes," she told me

"definitely." So we did TAT for the trauma with my patient taking the mare's point of view.

Another way of looking at this is that we actually did a surrogate healing, using my patient's

energy field in order to heal her mare's trauma.

I spoke with my patient a year and a half later, and she told me that her relationship

with horses had completely cleared up. She said, "I’ve had such good success in helping

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THE GREAT FILE SYSTEM

Similar things get filed together in the mind. Similar traumas. Similar feelings. Similar

times of year. Similar kinds of people. When you do TAT, you may be working on healing

one trauma only to find that it is stuck to several other similar things. It is as if the trauma

you are putting your attention on is the hub of a wheel with many spokes, and at the end of

each spoke is...another center of another wheel. What a tangle!

You can dissolve the tangle with TAT by following the simple rule: Take whatever

comes. This sounds simple, and it is. You just have to be quiet and pay attention towhatever your mind brings up next. Your mind might take you along a path of the same

person at different times (your dad throughout your life), or similar events (the Holidays), or

similar traumas (every time the family got together).

How do you keep the movie rolling? How do you get to see what's next? By being

open and honest with yourself. Put your attention on “you.” Be willing to hang out there

and be aware of whatever is going on underneath all the to and fro of everyday life. As

difficult things surface and you do TAT for them, they become integrated as they heal and

are no longer suppressed or kept at arm’s length. This transforms darkness into light. You

just have to be open and take the attitude "What's really here?"


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ALLERGIES

In the case of allergies, if one of your ancestors experienced a trauma related to a particular

food, that information could have been passed along to you as the message: "Stay away from

that food. It's bad for us."

If you have a life-threatening allergy, you may use TAT to help alleviate the problem, but do

not come in contact with the allergen unless you are under the direct supervision of a

physician who is able to help you with any allergic reaction you might have.

Here's how to do TAT to clear it up:

First, as always when doing TAT, ask your body if you can work on this now. If it's a “Yes,"

then go on. If not, don't. Wait until another day, or check to see if there is a different

problem (often emotional) that needs to be cleared up first.

State your prejudice/hatred/ingrained belief/thing-you-have-trouble-with, or hold a sample of

what you're allergic to. If you can't get a sample of what you're allergic to, you can put your

attention on what you're allergic to. If you like, you can write it down in order to keep your

focus.

Do TAT with your attention on that.

Then, if your body says yes, put your attention on a positive condition in relation to your

food or emotional allergy and do TAT. For example: "This is good for me." Or "This

person/people can exist and I can feel fearless and at peace with them.


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ANIMALS

When you work with animals, you need to do the testing on yourself on their behalf (please

see section on Surrogate Work, page____). Ask their body if it is OK to work on whatever

you think will help them at that moment. If you get a “Yes,” then proceed.

There are two ways to do the TAT pose when you work with an animal:

1. Do it on yourself on the animal’s behalf

2. Do it on the animal. If the animal is comfortable with it, place one

palm over the area between the eyebrows as you would with a child (see

illustration on page_____). If possible, you want to cover the area at the inner

corner of each eye and also between and slightly above each eye. If that is

not possible, then cover the area between and slightly above the two eyes.

Your other hand should be placed palm down at the base of the animal’s skull.

If your animal is not comfortable being touched in this way, place your two palms

about three inches from the animal’s head in the same areas. It is as if the animal had a

pillow over each area in front and in back and your hands are resting gently on the pillows.

After you have gotten a “Yes” that it’s OK to work on whatever the problem is, you

can do the Four Steps of TAT. As in the rest of the manual, when I say “Do TAT here,” I

mean do the Four Steps plus the TAT pose. When I say “Do TAT for __________,” I am

giving you Statement #1 of the Four Steps.

There are two ways to approach the Four Steps with animals. You can check bytesting on yourself before each step to find out if the animal needs that particular step or not

or you can do the Four Steps straight through. Both approaches work.

Animals, like people, may have a few seconds of discomfort (not pain) as their

system takes in the new information and integrates it. (Please see the chapter on the Chaos

Theory, page ). I suggest that you explain this to the animal before you start your TAT

work. If the animal shows you that they really don’t want to do TAT now, then don’t force it

on them.

Allergies

If you think an animal is allergic to something, put the substance near the animal and

test on yourself with this question: “Does _____ (the animal) have a problem with this?” If

the answer is “Yes,” then do the Four Steps of TAT. You can either say the statement for

each step out loud or hold the thought silently as you do the TAT pose. If you do not have a

sample of the substance, just think of it and test to see if the animal has a problem with it.

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Traumas

Think of the trauma you believe is troubling the animal. Then test on yourself to see

if it is OK to work on this trauma now. If it is, then say, out loud, to the animal somethinglike, “Now we are going to work on healing the time you were hit by a car,” and do the TAT

pose with the Four Steps. After you have done TAT, think of the trauma again and ask, “Is

there any more we need to do to clear this up?” and test. If the answer is “Yes,” then put

your attention on “Whatever is left about this that is still troubling you,” and do TAT on the

animal or yourself.

There may be times when you don’t know an animal’s entire history. Say they come

home with a limp one day. You can do TAT for “Whatever trauma you just suffered.”

Bad Attitudes

Animals, like people, can develop bad attitudes as a result of bad experiences. For

example, you may inherit a pet who was mistreated by previous owners. You might help the

pet by doing TAT for “People are all bad,” or “I can’t trust any humans.” It could also help

to do TAT for “Whatever the trauma was that give birth to your unhappy attitude about

horses (or whatever the problem is).”

Fears

You can use TAT to help an animal that is fearful either at that moment or at anothertime. If it’s happening right in the moment (for example, they are fearful during a storm),

you can do the TAT pose and tell them “You’re OK.” Or at another time, you can do the

Four Steps for “Your fear of storms.”

Prayer

I recommend praying for any person or animal you work with. It is not the TAT

technique itself that does the healing, it is the Life Force itself. We just extend the invitation

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THE CHAOS PRINCIPLEOR “OH NO, I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING TO DIE”

You will occasionally find that things get worse before they get better. Sometimes, when a

person is doing TAT they'll say, "Okay, I'm done," but they haven't changed, and perhaps

they are even feeling worse. If you are a practitioner who is helping someone use TAT, you

can always check their progress by doing testing on yourself as they're doing TAT. If your

body tells you that they have more to do, just tell them, "Do it a little longer." It is usually

just a matter of another 10 or 15 seconds before the problem clears up.

In my experience, the Chaos Principle comes up when a person has been existing as

"Someone who __________." The blank is whatever problem you're focusing on, such as:

can't enjoy money; was sexually abused; lost all my family; can never do anything right, etc.

Whatever it is, it is about to die, and it begins to shake before it dies. This happens in the

few seconds in which a person is focusing on their problem and doing the TAT pose.

It can be helpful for someone to know that they may experience these types of

feelings for a few seconds and that they will pass. They should simply keep their attention

on their problem and keep doing TAT.


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CHEMICAL EXPOSURE

Many people these days are exposed to chemicals that make them sick. Often, you can't get a

sample of the chemical to hold in your hand in order to do the TAT allergy protocol. For

example, people who were exposed to Agent Orange or have Gulf War Syndrome can't get

samples of what they were exposed to. TAT has been successful in dealing with continuing

reactions to chemical exposure, long after the exposure itself, without having a sample on

hand. Here is how you can heal from chemical exposures using TAT.

First ask your body, "Can I work on this now?" If yes, proceed.

Put your attention on "My exposure to _______________(the chemical) and do TAT.

You don't even have to know the name of the chemical. Just your intention to focus on the particular chemical or chemicals that you were exposed to will work.

Make a list of all symptoms -- physical, mental, emotional, and anything else -- that

you feel or suspect are caused by your exposure.

Put your attention on the first symptom and do TAT for one minute or until you feel a

shift in your energy. Put your attention on each additional symptom and do TAT.

Put your attention on the "storage space" and do TAT.

TAT has helped some sufferers of chemical exposure very much and it has only takenminutes. If you have had a chemical exposure and TAT does not clear up your symptoms, I

recommend that you find an acupuncturist near you, have them contact me, and I will give

them instructions on how to help you.

A Story from My Practice:

A bright 38-year-old woman asked if I might be able to help her. She had taken her

dog to a groomer 10 months before. The groomer had dipped her dog in a dilute form of

nerve gas to get rid of fleas. The dog got sick for a while then recovered. The woman had

gotten sick but hadn't recovered. She was experiencing headaches, dizziness, ringing in her

ears, insomnia, and very low energy. When she saw her doctor, all she could say was thatshe was feeling off-kilter, but what could they do for that?

We did TAT with her putting her attention on the dip, then for each symptom, one at

a time. She went home, slept really hard for two nights, and her energy returned and all her

symptoms vanished. I checked with her a year and a half after the treatment and none of the

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CHILDREN

It is delightful to help children heal by using TAT. They have no preconceptions about what

does or doesn’t work. They go along with in trying TAT out and let you know what’s

honestly happening. It is very beautiful.

Whenever you work with children, put the concepts and instructions in words they

can understand. When I work with young children, I usually say something like, “Your body

isn’t happy when it thinks about ______________, and what I’m going to show you will

make your body feel happier about it.” Or for allergies, “Your body doesn’t like ______________. This will help your body like it.” Instead of using the instruction, “Put

your attention on _________” I just say, “Think about ____________,” and I find that it

works just as well.

Allergies

This can be a lot of fun. You can do a tour of your home and find out what your child

has problems with. You can be the secretary, making list as your child strolls through the

house checking items. For example, your child can go to their pillow, touch it and ask their

body if it likes this or not. Then they do an energetic field test on themselves to see if their

body says “Yes, I like it,” or “No, I don’t like it.” The you write down the item and the test

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Go through the whole house. Check your perfumes, soaps, toothpaste, cleansers,

laundry detergent, fabrics, favorite foods, other foods, tap water, drinks, vitamins,

supplements, medications, candies, pillows, bedding, dust, mold, the smell of gas from a

heater, newsprint, new book smell, perfumes in erasers and everything else you can think of

that might be a source of disturbance to your child.

In my definition, allergy means that your body doesn’t like something. In terms of

Traditional Chinese Medicine, this could be called an energy disharmony. In western

medical terms, this might show up as an allergy, a sensitivity, or not show up in any

measurable form at all. My bottom line is that I listen to the wisdom of the body and work

directly with that. This is what I recommend to you. Then proceed as I have directed in the

chapter on allergies, which I will recap here in short, using some of the language I would use

with a child.

Step #1: First have your child treat themselves for “The first time in my whole life that

my body felt icky about ___________or didn’t like ___________.”Remember to tell your child, “This means your whole life, and it might have

happened while you were still living inside of Mommy. You might not know

what it was that your body first didn’t like. I might not know either. That’s

OK. Your body knows. Tell your body to remember and think about that

time when it first felt icky about __________ or didn’t like _________.”

Then have them to do that while they hold the TAT pose.

Step #2 Tell your child something like, “Now tell your body that it can be OK with

that stuff now,” and have them hold the TAT pose.

Step #3 Tell your child, “Think to yourself that all the things that ever happened thatmade your body feel that way about ________ are healing now,” and have

them hold the TAT pose.

Step #4 Tell your child, “Think to yourself that all the places in my thoughts (or

mind), body and life that have felt icky about _________ are healing now.”

This is basically how to do the Four Steps of TAT with children.

Next, proceed with the Top Ten Allergens shown on page _____. If you didn’t

happen to check those items in your home tour, check now to see if your child is OK with all

of them. Then, clear your child’s favorite foods (including candies, soft drinks, munchies,etc.) using TAT for each, one at a time.

If you have a child with MCS (multiple chemical sensitivities), then have them think

about petrochemicals and do TAT. You can explain to them that, “Petrochemicals are all

the chemicals made out of oil which is made out of long-dead dinosaur bones!”

Remember, with TAT, you do not have to have a sample of the substance in order to

do a treatment. You can just think about the thing you have a problem with, do the Four

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and use it while you do your TAT work. Have your child set the object or substance next to

themselves as they do the Four Steps. It can make it a little easier to concentrate. Also, your

concentration on the item brings its energetic signature or vibration into the place in your

child’s world where they can then do their healing work. The magic of our thoughts is

profoundly powerful.

What if you are working with an infant? You hold the thoughts for the baby: say the

words of each step out loud, and place your hands in the TAT pose on the baby’s head. If the

baby is sick or fussy when you touch their head, you can hold your hands about an inch away

from its head.

You may feel so excited to have a possible cure for a child’s ills at hand that you do

not follow rule number one: always, always, always ask their body first if it is OK to work

on this, whether it is a trauma, an allergy, a nightmare or whatever.

Don’t over-do it with a child. They change fast. You may only need to spend ten

seconds in each of the four steps. As time goes on, you will get the feel of when somethingis done. Don’t think that not much is happening just because it is happening so fast. A lot

takes place very quickly with TAT, so be sure to give the child time to adjust and heal.

Nightmares

If your child has a nightmare and comes in and wakes you up, and you are both half

asleep, then do TAT for them if they are not awake enough to do the pose themselves. It

doesn’t matter if you hold the pose or if they do. You can say “Think about your nightmare,

and hold the pose about a minute.” Ask them to tell you what they are thinking. Then tell

them (Step #2): “Think about the nightmare and that you are OK, and hold the TAT pose,”

and have them tell you what happens when they do that.

If they tell you something like, “There’s one really scary part that I keep thinking

about over and over,” then tell them, “Think about that part and that you are OK,” as they

continue to do the pose or as you continue doing the pose for them. Then ask them again if

there is any part that still bothers them. If there is, have them think about that part and that

they are OK until there are no more parts of it that are bothering them.

Trauma

You may need to take your child to a licensed health care professional to help with atrauma. If they are in an on-going traumatic situation, TAT is not the answer. The answer is

to change their situation. TAT is useful for a single incident trauma or if a child had an

on-going traumatic situation that is now over. Yet, even if there is no getting out of a

situation, I would still do TAT just to help bring some peace to the child.

What to say to a child for the Four Steps for a trauma are:

Step 1 “Think of what happened.”

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Step 3 “Think ‘All the places this unhappy thing started are healing in me now.’”

Step 4 “Think ‘All the places in my thoughts, body and life that felt bad about

what happened are healing now.’”

As a parent, you should feel free to change the wording so your child understands the

meaning.

Sometimes traumas happen and the child may feel responsible. You might want to

use a further step in this case:

5. “I didn’t make this happen and I’m not to blame for it.”

Raising Your Child’s Self-Esteem

If your child has negative thoughts about themselves, you can use TAT to help freethem of these thoughts. For instance, if they make a mistake and you repeatedly hear them

saying “Boy, I am really stupid!” you can tell them, “You know, that’s not true. We can let

your thoughts and feelings know it, too. Here’s how. Do the TAT pose and think ‘I am

really stupid.’ Then do the TAT pose and think ‘I am really smart,’ or ‘I am not really

stupid.’ Then think ‘All the places where this started are healing now,’ while you do TAT.

Then think ‘All the places in my mind (or thoughts), my body and my life that felt and

thought that are healing now,’ as you do the pose.”

As your child is doing the pose and holding each thought, have them tell you what is

happening. Give them a few moments of silence, then ask them to tell you what happened.

Have them do each step until they feel done. Empower them. This will help free them fromtheir negative beliefs and step into the freedom of positive self-worth.

If the wording in these statements for the Four Steps make more sense to you than in

the section for grown-ups, please use them for yourself. It’s the thought that counts!

I hope you will find great success in using TAT to help your child with their troubles.

It is beautiful and awe-inspiring to watch a child flower into better health and relaxation right

before your eyes. It is like watching a sun rise in the heart of their existence. I hope you will

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CLEARING YOURSELF OF THE DAY

This is a simple preventive practice based on the Taoist principle of taking care of problems

while they are still small.

At the end of your day, you can review the day's events and notice if anything stuck

to you. To let it go, put your attention on it and do as many of the Four Steps of TAT as your

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different. No one is judging you. Witnessing your thoughts as they really are will help you

heal yourself, so take a paper and pen and write your honest answers to the following

questions:

When I think of healing this problem, I don’t want to because:

This problem is useful to me because:I know this problem can never heal because:

If this problem heals, I’ll lose:

This is not the real problem for me. The real problem is:

If this problem ever healed, then:

I’m afraid for this problem to heal because:

If this problem heals, then it means:

When I think of healing this problem, I feel bad because:

What I need to clear up before I can even think of healing this problem is:

I can’t even think about this problem because:

You can then do the four Steps of TAT for each statement you write, no matter how small orlarge the thought may seem. If another such thought comes up, do TAT on that. Continue in this

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DISCOVERING YOUR HIDDEN WORST QUALITIES

Life itself will give you clues as to your worst qualities. You just need to listen to your most

intense criticisms of others. There's your list. Or you can generate a list by writing at the top

of the page "What I Really Hate About Others Is.....” Then do TAT for each item. It might

take all four steps, and it might take only the first step to dissolve it. Ask your body and find

out.

When you do TAT on yourself, use the exact wording of what you're critical of in

others, because that's exactly what you hate about yourself. What? I'm not that way! I'mcritical of them, remember? Yes, I do remember. That's why I say to use the exact words.

If you happen to be in one of the helping professions, you can find out about yourself

by paying attention to who you most despise or from whom you are most valiantly trying to

save your clients. That hated quality most probably lives somewhere in you. It might be

hidden deep and away, but I would be willing to bet it's there - in you.

I can say this with confidence because of the dark, disgusting qualities I have found

in myself. The good news is that it gives you a lot of compassion for others to face that stuff

in yourself! Happy hunting!


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DREAM INTERPRETATION

Write your dream down while it is fresh in your mind. To access the meaning of a dream,

put your attention on any element of the dream (scenery, people, events, etc.) and do TAT.

Do one element at a time. My experience is that the meaning simply drops out in front of

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FAMILIES

Connecting With Your Family

You may find that there is one family scene that embodies your worst memories of your life

as a child. Or there may be a few such memories. In that scene, you are probably feeling

pretty isolated from your other family members. If this is true for you, here is a way to heal

your isolation:

Do TAT for about a minute for each emotion you can think of with your attention on“the _____________ (fill in the emotion) we all felt.”

Here are some examples:

The fear we all felt.

The loneliness we all felt.

The anger we all felt.

The sadness we all felt.

The grief we all felt.

The anxiety we all felt.

anything else you can think of.

Dissolving the Identification Between a Parent and a Significant Other

Have you ever found yourself getting a significant other confused with one of your parents?

What a trouble, for both of you! It doesn't make for a clear, open relationship.

Here's an easy way to make the separation. At the top of a piece of paper, write:

________________ (your significant other’s name), you ______________ just like my

(mom or dad -- pick one for this blank). Then write a fast list of everything that pops into

your mind such as: wear glasses, are a man/woman, dress well, shout, look, etc. Don't edit, just write.

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HELPING AN ATTACHED BEING MOVE ON

It is possible to use TAT to help an attached being move on. I have seen this in cases such as

a chaotic childhood in which parents used alcohol and drugs and the children were abusedand/or neglected. What happens is that after working with a patient and having a trauma

clear up, I get the feeling that someone else is in the room. When I ask my patient about it,

they often tell me that they have been aware of “someone” hanging around who isn’t in a

body. Then I ask my patient if they’d like to participate in a surrogate healing on behalf of

the attached being. They have always said “Sure.”

I get an OK from the attached being by doing a surrogate energetic field test on myself to

see if it’s OK for us to do that. Then I have my patient do TAT on themselves for “Whatever

the trauma was that the attached being suffered that was similar to mine and made them

attach to me.” We usually do only the first two steps of the Four Steps of TAT.

It may sound funny to say to someone who is not in a body “That happened and I

survived,” or “That happened and I’m OK,” but they are there. Yes, they died, but they

still exist and they need to get that information.

Then I pray out loud and say, “I pray for you to go on to a better life and that you receive

God’s love and that you have help along your way.” That’s all there is to it.

I think that what has happens is this: when a person (my patient) has a trauma, they step

back from it and create a “second self” so that it’s as if the trauma is happened to someone

else, not them. When they create that split, it’s as if a swimming pool of energy forms

between self #1 and self #2. Someone who is not in a body and who has suffered similartraumas comes by and says “Ah, there’s someone who could understand me. That swimming

pool of fear, trauma and violence looks like home to me. I think I’ll hang out there.”

When my patient and I complete our TAT work, there is no more swimming pool, so the

attached being pops out. I treat the now unattached being like a second patient in the room.

I always see angels come and help the person on their way and I often hear the being

thank us with a grateful heart.

If you feel that you have a patient who has an attached being around them and you are

notcomfortable with doing anything about it, just pray for their happiness. That is all you have

to do. When your patient’s trauma is healed, the being can’t stay attached to them, and they

move on naturally.

If this subject too foreign, you don’t need to do anything about it. You can do your TAT

work and forget this part. I rarely see it, but when I asked a roomful of about 50

psychotherapists how many of them had come across this in their work, close to half of them

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HOSPITALIZATION AND OTHER MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS

For many people, hospitalization, surgery, and other medical interventions are themselves

traumatic. People can also have allergic reactions to medications. I met a nurse recently

who told me about a study comparing hospitalized patients to torture victims. People often

do not recognize how traumatic hospitalization can be.

If you have one or more of these traumas in your life, I recommend that you do TAT for each

of the following:

The original reason you're there (a physical trauma, cancer, a disease, etc.).

The hospitalization.

The drugs you were given in the hospital and after hospitalization.

Emotional feelings that came up as a result of this happening (for example: fear,

loneliness, sadness, anger, grief, worry).

Attitudes that set in related to this event (for example: "I hate doctors,” "I'll never get

better,” "No one can understand what I've been through,” etc.).

When all of these items are healed via TAT, you will find that your energy is flowing and

you will heal from the event. Your physical body will heal, your chemistry will change to a

more vibrant condition, your emotions will be livelier, you won't be stuck in your attitudes,

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A LONG PERIOD OF AN ON-GOING TRAUMATIC LIFE

Many people have lived in miserable situations that have g

one on for years and years. Every day was about as rotten as the one before. It all seems likeone, big non-stop trauma. Where do you start to heal something like this? What you can do

is

1. List all the negative attitudes, decisions and beliefs that you can come up with about

yourself, life, others and God in three minutes. Write fast without thinking much. You

can write more if you want to.

2. Pick one that is especially meaningful to you right now.

3. Ask your body if it's OK to work on this now. If yes, proceed. If no, pick something else

and ask about that one until you find one that is OK to work on now.

4. Do TAT with your attention on the one you picked. After you've done TAT for one

minute, if it changes to a different thought, do TAT for that for one minute. Keep going

this way until nothing about that basic view captures your attention.

5. Write down the positive statement to your negative one. It does not have to be opposite

in exact wording, it should just mean the opposite of your original statement.

6. Do TAT for the positive statement.

7. Do whatever succeeding steps your body says are necessary.

When you have completed the work on that one attitude/belief/decision, you can work on

another one if it's OK with your body. Just ask, "Is it OK to do another one now?" This

work looks very simple, but remember that things are changing that you may not be fully

conscious of and you need to respect what your body shows you it wants to do.

All of those views helped you emotionally survive the events in your life. You have the

option now to grow into a more mature view.

After you're done working with TAT for one day, and you're ready to do some work with

TAT on another day, check to see that your previous day's work is still in place. You cancheck by using muscle testing, putting your attention on the view you worked on and asking

"Is this cleared up for me?" If it's not, put your attention on it and see where your attention

gets caught. Do TAT with your attention on that and any other variations on the negative

theme, giving approximately one minute to each one or until you feel each one dissolve.

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MONEY AND SUCCESS

Do you struggle with self-fulfilling negative attitudes about money and success that have

been with you for a lifetime? Are you convinced that they are "just the way things are?" Try

making a list of the ideas or beliefs you have about money and success. Then work on each

item using TAT for the perceived problem and then again for its opposite. Each person will

have different ideas associated with money and success. I have listed a few here, along with

their opposites.

I can never make as much money as I want. I can make as much money as I want.

I don’t enjoy making money.

I do enjoy making money.

I can never save money.

I can save money.

I can’t be spiritual if I have too much money.

I can be spiritual and have money.

I can’t earn more money than __________________ (my father/husband/friends).

I can earn more money than ____________.

Money is the root of all evil.

Money is not the root of all evil.

I have a hole in my pocket.

I don’t have a hole in my pocket.

And so on and so forth.

What I suggest is that you keep a journal of when you do TAT for each attitude. Then,

two or three months after you did TAT, see whether that attitude still has the power it did

originally. If it has any power left at all, then do TAT for it again, and check it again in

another couple of months. A sample journal form is included below, if you want to try it out.


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My New and Healed Relationship with Money

Date:___________________

Not Satisfied at All Completely Satisfied

. I can make as much money as I want. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

. I can spend as much money as I want. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

. I enjoy spending money. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

. I save as much money as I want. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

. I can plan my savings and spending. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

. I can receive help with money problems and plans.1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

. I enjoy making money. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

. I enjoy saving money. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

. I enjoy sharing money. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

0. I enjoy serving others with money. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

I have reviewed my relationship with money on this date: ____________________. The areas I still need to

heal are (numbers from the chart): ____________________________________________. I will do TAT on

those areas before the date of my next review.

The date of my next review of my relationship with money is:______________________ (One month from the

completion of "My New Relationship With Money" chart. Mark your calendar.)

I have reviewed my relationship with money on this date: ____________________. The areas I still need to

heal are (numbers from the chart): ____________________________________________. I will do TAT on

those areas before the date of my next review.

The date of my next review of my relationship with money is:______________________ (One month from the

completion of "My New Relationship With Money" chart. Mark your calendar.)


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PREJUDICE AND INHERITED EXPERIENCES,

STUCK THOUGHTS AND NEGATIVE BELIEFS

Traumas can engender a whole crop of ideas and beliefs. Most of us have many traumas

at early ages and the ideas and beliefs born from those traumas stay with us our whole lives,

informing us of "what's really going on out there.” Say we were physically abused. Wemight decide "I'm worthless," or "I deserved it," or "I can't trust anybody." Or if we were

neglected, we could conclude: "I'm not worth being paid attention to," or "I don't have

anything worth hearing," or "Nobody's in my corner."

Thoughts, feelings, and even allergies can also come from ancestors who had traumas

that they never got over. As we know, groups of people have treated other groups of people

badly. Very old thoughts and prejudices can still be present in your cells. What do you do

when you have a prejudice that is in your very bones? What do you do when you come in

contact with a whole race of people and you instinctively hate them? Or perhaps you have a

more benign trouble such as motion sickness, which everyone on your mother's side of the

family has.

As you go through life, or as you do TAT, you may notice some of these thoughtshanging around, playing over and over, like endless tapes you wish you could stop. We're

often unaware of these core beliefs and it takes some doing to start to hear them. There are

many useful techniques for getting to know this part of yourself. I will leave you to discover

what's most useful for you.

When you come across one of these negative beliefs, however, you can diffuse it by

putting your attention on it and doing TAT. You will often find that when one of them is

resolved, another is revealed. Do TAT with that one. Keep going until your mind is quiet on

the subject. As you go on with a string of such thoughts and negative beliefs, you may find

yourself thinking very child-like thoughts. That's normal. You probably formed many of

these beliefs at an early age and you are just getting to meet parts of your young self. Enjoy

the process. Enjoy the results. You will probably feel clearer, more relaxed, open and alive.


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RAPE AND SEXUAL ABUSE

Overcoming the trauma of rape or sexual abuse is one of the greatest challenges a person can

face in life. TAT can heal the traumatic stress of a rape in one sitting of an hour or less.The person won’t feel worse, because TAT doesn’t restimulate the memory with all of its

fear and terror and anger. When a person puts their attention on what happened and assumes

the TAT pose, they will immediately start to feel better, not worse, and the trauma will start

to heal.

It may take more than one sitting if you are a victim of repeated sexual abuse. You may

not be able to put your attention on “all of it” and then have every angle of it clear up, but

you may be surprised: it is possible to put your attention on an entire section of your life and

do TAT and have the traumatic stress about that time clear up.

The way to find out how to start working with a prolonged period of sexual abuse is touse energetic field testing to ask your body: “Can I work on that whole period of my life?” If

the answer is “Yes,” then go for it. If the answer is “No,” then you have to break it down

into smaller pieces that your system will be able to handle. For example, you might have to

do

TAT for a few single events that were particularly bad for you. You would do them one at a

time. After doing a few of those, you could ask your body again: “Can I now do TAT for all

the rest of the incidents all at once?” If the answer is “Yes,” then go for it. If the answer is

“No,” then break it down again. Another way to break it down is by age. For example, ask

your body if you could do TAT for everything that happened during one particular year of

your life in regard to this problem. Or one particular month.

Sometimes, when you have a big problem that seems like it has over-shadowed every

aspect of your life, you may not feel that much has shifted after doing TAT. Keep going. Do

some every day for a week (assuming your body says it’s OK). Keep a journal. Then you

can see how you started and where you are now. It may also help you to rate how you feel

about different aspects of yourself, life, and the problem at the beginning of the week and at

the end of the week.

Here are some ratings on a scale of 1-10, 1 being “not true at all,” and 10 being

“completely true for me.”

I accept myself.I accept my perpetrator as being who he/she is.

I love myself.

I know I didn’t cause my perpetrator(s) to behave the way he/she did.

I feel good about my own sexuality.

I don’t hate men/women.

I trust myself.

I trust others.


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Use the instructions given in “How to Do TAT for Traumas.” Before you start, check

yourself for any considerations you have about healing this.

If you work by yourself, keep a journal and have someone who is open, supportive and

non-judgmental with whom you can share what you are doing. It helps your healing to have

someone listen to and support you. You may also find it useful to start a support group or bring TAT to a group you already belong to. I know that TAT can bring you peace and a

new sense of wholeness.


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RECOVERING PARTS OF YOURSELF THAT DIED

When bad things happen to us, sometimes we feel like part of ourselves dies. In a moment of

being yelled at, we can feel, "The part of me that wanted to be heard has died." Or if we are

abandoned we can feel, "The part of me that needs to be taken care of has died." Then weend up trying to defend that part that died, trying to stand up for that part, trying to keep it

from dying. To use TAT to heal this part of yourselves, you can:

Use TAT with the statement, "I died in that moment."

Then use TAT with the statement, "I didn't die in that moment."

Then check to see if it would be useful to clear up the origins (Step Three),

and then the storage space (Step Four).

I have found this useful for bringing back parts of ourselves that have been lost, and with

them, memories that have been lost. It is as if the life of that part ended in a long-ago

moment, and when that part died, its memories and point of view ended as well. Doing TATallows the full trauma of that moment to be resolved. The part of yourself that has been

trying to defend the part that you saw as dying finally lets the dying part die. Then...you find

that the dying part really didn't die and is still part of you now!


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STORIES

To B: "Would it be useful to work on the origins of the trauma?" If 'no', skip it. If yes, then

say:

To C/P: "The origins of the problem could be from any time in your history. Neither you

nor I need to be conscious of what the origins are. You just need to be open to the origins,

whatever they may be. Be open to the origins and do the TAT pose. Let me know when you

feel a shift in your energy, or I'll let you know when I feel a change or when about a minute

has passed."

Your action: Put your attention on your C/P . Test on yourself while they are working with

the intent to your own body "Show me a 'yes' when they're done." Watch your C/P to notice

any shifts in their breathing, posture, changes in motions, facial expression. Be open with

your own body to see if you can feel a release in your own body (your attention is primarily

on your C/P , secondarily on yourself, but truly inclusive of both). At this point, I often pray

for their healing in relation to this item. Praying is your option. When your body gives you

a 'yes', quit testing and keep your attention on your C/P . Wait another 15-20 seconds or so to

see if your C/P will tell you "Okay, I'm done" or an equivalent. If they don't, say:

To C/P: "I think that's done. Put your hands down. What happened for you?"

Your action: Listen to your C/P . Write down notes of what they say in their words.

Validate their experience: i.e. "Good" or "Okay" or whatever you want to say to let them

know that whatever they experienced is normal and that you heard what they said.

To B: "Do we need to hear a specific story in order to clear up the origins of this trauma?"

To C/P: "Hold."

Your action: Test. If no, proceed to 'storage space' question and procedure. If 'yes', then:

To B: "Is it genetic?"

To C/P: Hold.

Your action: Test. If no:

To B: "Is it this life?"

To C/P: "Hold."


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Your action: Test. If no:

To B: "Is it past life?" If you are not happy with the idea of past lives or you have a C/P

who doesn't want to hear about past lives, say "Is it another situation?" or "Is it anotherstory?".

To C/P: Explain "I don't know if what we're coming up with actually occurred or not. What

is coming up is a story that resonates with something that is true, and hearing this story helps

your body heal."

To B: If genetic: Ask "Mother's side?"

To C/P: "Hold."

Your action: Test. If 'yes', write down 'Mother's side' in notes. If 'no', write 'Father's side' innotes. You may test for 'Father's side' to obtain a 'yes' answer from body if you like.

Continue testing for: B.C.? A.D.? If B.C., 1st - 5th century? 5th - 10th century? If earlier

than 10th century B.C., tell C/P and write in notes: "A long time ago." If A.D., 1st - 10th

century? 11th - 20th century? Ask B: Is this close enough? If not, keep going by halving

the times where you get a 'yes' till you've got a 'close enough' answer from the body or the

exact century. For example, if you get a 'yes' for 1st - 10th A.D., then ask 1st to 5th? 6th to

10th? If 6th to 10th is a 'yes' and their body still wants greater detail, ask 6th? 7th? 8th? 9th?

10th? Then test for: man? woman? (sometimes 'child' needs to be heard if neither 'man' nor

'woman' feels like a definite 'yes' from the body. Then test for boy or girl.) Test for "Is this

enough information?" If not, continue with creative questions like: "Is it work-related?Family-related? Politically-related?" Then after filling in a few more details, ask "Is this

enough information?" If not, get a couple more details. You just need to be creative and

think: what might have been a traumatic situation that was the origin of this trauma? Write

down each detail as you go.

For a story from this life, test to find out the age of the person. Test for pre-birth, then birth

itself as possible ages. Test to find out if that is enough information. If not, find a few more

details. Usual details can be found by asking "Was your mother/father/another relative

involved?", "Was a particular emotion of significance?" If an emotion is important, test to

find which one: sadness, grief, anger, worry, fright? Keep getting details until you get a 'yes'

for your test to the body asking "Is this enough information?"

For a story that is a past life or "other situation" you proceed the same as for a genetic story

but leave out the questions about whether it's on the mother's side or father's side of the

family.

Once you have 'enough information' as a result of your testing the body, then:

To C/P: Put your attention on (read off all story elements) and hold.


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Your action: Test. A 'no' or 'weak' response shows that this story resonates with a problem.

Or put another way, your question to their body is "How do you feel about this: weak or

strong?"

To C/P: Put your attention on (read off all elements for first story) and do TAT.

Your action: Put your attention on your C/P . Test on yourself while they are working with

the intent to your own body "Show me a 'yes' when they're done." Watch your C/P to notice

any shifts in their breathing, posture, changes in motions, facial expression. Be open with

your own body to see if you can feel a release in your own body (your attention is primarily

on your C/P , secondarily on

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