If no stuck energy, proceed to Step Two Answer 2: If stuck energy is encountered, do TAT on that.

Then ask: What happened?

Answer 2: If stuck energy is encountered, do TAT on that. Then ask: What happened? (Continue until no stuck energy is encountered.)

Step Two

Hold a positive thought in relation to the item and do the TAT pose.

Step Three

Be open to the origins and do TAT.

Step Four

HANDLING A DISCRETE INCIDENT WITH TAT

For a single incident, you should pay the most attention to STEP 1. Here's what you do. Instruct the client/patient (C/P): "Put your attention on _____________ (the incident) for about four minutes or until you feel a shift."

When the client/patient (C/P) indicates that they're done, ask: "Is there anything about it that still gets you or hurts you or that you still find yourself thinking about or that still grabs you inside?" You can word this however you like, just so that they understand what you mean. If they say "Yes,” then tell them: "Put your attention on that and do TAT."

When they're done, ask them again: "Is there anything about it that still gets you?" If yes, have them do TAT again with their attention on that.

Keep repeating this until their answer is "No, nothing about it still hooks me" (or whatever they say that means that). Then ask their body if it would be helpful to proceed to

STEP 2.

Often, a positive statement for a single incident will be "I survived __________" or "It happened and I'm OK." This brings a person to the physical realization that they're here now and not still stuck in trying to survive the incident. Then ask their body if it would be helpful to proceed to STEP 3.

Often a person is in a situation now because of a propensity to be in that type of situation. It may be genetic or some other cause, but just being open to the origins will usually cover it.

Then ask their body if it would be helpful to proceed STEP 4, the place or places where the incident has been stored.

70 HANDLING A GROUP OF SIMILAR INCIDENTS WITH TAT

Sometimes a person has had many incidents which are similar. I like to do things simply and quickly. Here's how you can do it, too.

Ask the person’s body: "Can we work on all of these incidents at the same time?" If the answer is "Yes,” then have the person put their attention on all of the incidents and do STEP

1.

If the answer is "No,” then ask the person to choose the incident that is most disturbing or most fresh in their memory, and ask their body if it is OK to work on that incident now. If the answer is “Yes,” then proceed with STEP 1.

When that incident clears up, then ask: "Is there another incident we need to hear about before we do all of the rest at once?" If yes, proceed as above. If no, have the person put their attention on all of the incidents at once and do TAT.

WORKING WITH SOMEONE WHO WON'T TALK MUCH

Sometimes you may find yourself working with someone who either doesn't want to or can't talk much about what happened to them. Perhaps because of pride or perhaps because not remembering much is how they survived a trauma. If they are a teenager, they may be overwhelmed by confusing emotions, or sharing certain things goes against their sense of who they are. If the person is willing to seek help with the problem, however, you're halfway there.

Ask the person’s body, "Can we work this way (i.e., by using TAT) now?" If the answer is "Yes,” then ask the person what the problem is. If they can only say one or two words, that's enough.

Then ask their body, "Can we work on this problem now?" If the answer is "Yes,” then have them put their attention on the problem and do TAT.

When you ask if there's anything else about the incident or problem that grabs them, they can just answer by shaking their head. If something is still stuck, you say, "OK, put your attention on that and do TAT." You keep asking and instructing them to do TAT until nothing more about it bothers them.

72 KNOWING WHEN TO GO ON AND WHEN TO STOP

WHEN PHYSICAL AND EMOTIONAL PAIN OCCUR

What if someone suddenly gets a headache in the middle of doing TAT? How do you know whether to go on? Ask their body, “Should we continue doing TAT for this problem now?" If the answer is “Yes," then ask, “Would it be best to focus on the headache?" If the answer is “Yes,” then have them focus on the headache and do TAT. This is the way to approach any physical pain while someone is doing TAT.

If emotional pain occurs, such as intense grief, it's perfectly OK to give some space to the person to cry and express it. This does not often occur with TAT. There is usually a resolution of intense emotion into peace, but sometimes strong emotion does occur. Give the person a few minutes or whatever you feel is appropriate and then ask their body if it would be useful for them to put their attention on that emotion and do TAT. If it is, have them do that. If not, go on to the next step.

If you are ever in doubt about which way to go, remember three things: 8) Ask their body if it's OK to go on and what to do next;

for example, "More on this step? Next step?

2) If it's OK to work on a problem, it doesn't matter much

which piece of it you clear in what order. Once it's cleared up, they're better off. Their junk will remain, and what's clear will

help them.

3) Take what comes. Listen to what the person tells you. That's probably what you should focus on next.

ALLERGIES: A TREATMENT OVERVIEW

If something exists, you can have an allergy to it. In my definition, allergy means what's left from a trauma that is unresolved. If a trauma is unresolved, it is as if the moment itself is still with you. You are still actively trying to defend yourself against some information held in that moment. By putting and keeping your troops (your immune system) on alert at your border, you are constantly losing energy. You have invested your all of your energy in self- defense. The battle rages on, whether or not you are receiving incoming reports from the battlefield.

If, for example, you were abandoned, and that trauma is unresolved, then you have troops engaged in holding that moment off. Your personal energy is tied up. In that moment as a child, it may have been too much for you to receive the information "Mommy has left me. Mommy doesn't care about me." So every moment you are fighting off receiving that information. At the time it happened, your stomach might have tightened up and your jaw may have set with the determination "I don't need anyone to help me!" Now you have TMJ (sore, clinched jaw) and stomach problems and your mid-back (where your stomach nerves come from) gets tired at the end of the day and you're seeing medical professionals for help with each problem and taking herbs, vitamins or medications to help ease your pain. Your stomach is tight thinking "I can get food myself and I don't need anyone else to get food for me!" When you're stressed, you can't eat well. This is your basic trauma and resulting chronic problems.

To come up with an allergy, you just sprinkle one more ingredient in the pot: an allergen. Say the above trauma happened just after breakfast. If you had milk and cereal in your stomach, the existence of milk and cereal is also being held out. You have troops assigned to the task “resist milk and cereal." Milk and cereal have been lumped into the category of "Not me -- Harmful Outsiders -- Red Alert." And there you have it: an allergy is born. Our cells can carry information such as this for generations.

Here we are today in a world full of new things our cells have never encountered: man-made chemicals. We live in a chemical soup: the air we breathe, the water we drink, the food we eat, our soaps, and on and on. We have a lot of stress in our world and plenty of opportunity for trauma in which chemicals are added into our trauma stew and become allergens for us. Where to start!?

I recommend that you start with the foods you eat. Do TAT for each food that you eat, each vitamin you take, and every supplement you take. Then do TAT for every herb and medication you take. When I say, "Do TAT," I mean that you should check with your body and see which things you have trouble with and can work on now. Then do the Four Steps of TAT.

How many can you do in a day? Ask your body before you start each new item and you'll know by your body's response if you can do another one.

74 I recommend that for a week, every time you are about to eat a meal, you test to find out if anything on your plate is an allergen. If it is, do TAT for it. I understand that you may be out for business lunches or on the run. Just do it for a while and see what you come up with. You may also need to do TAT for chemicals in the food you eat. Read labels. Find out what's actually in your food. Pick a chemical on the box and just ask your body "Do you have any trouble with __________ (MSG, for example)?" If the answer is Yes, give yourself a treatment.

Check your drinking water, too. It's probably full of chemicals, too. Find out if you need to do TAT for your water.

If you are environmentally ill, check your air. Put a jar of distilled water in your work environment and another in your home environment for two days. In your home environment, you can put one jar in each room if you are very chemically sensitive. Also put one outside for an air sample. The water will collect samples of whatever is in your physical environment: carpet, paint, cleaning fluids, drapery fabric, building materials, pollens, etc. Then, after the two days, put the jar of water next to you and ask your body if it has a problem with this. If there's a problem, give yourself a treatment with TAT. Then test your sample jar the next day and see whether the treatment worked. If not, you may need to do TAT for each item separately: the carpet, the paint, then the cleaning fluids, etc. If you can't get a sample of each, just put your attention on each. Thought is real, so it works to use a thought with TAT. You just think, "The carpet at work" and do the TAT pose.

If you don't know what is making you feel sick, and you suspect it might be an allergic reaction, you can just put your attention on "Whatever is making me sick right now" and do TAT. This often works.

If you are starting to get a cold, you can put your attention on "this cold" or "whatever is attacking my body" and do TAT. Then proceed with the Four Steps of TAT as needed. This will often stop the cold in its tracks. Or if you prefer, you can spit into a cup and set the cup next to you and do TAT with your attention on "whatever's making me sick."

I have found that in most all cases, you only need to do TAT one time for each allergen and you're done. I have also found that when a person is very stressed, the worst of their allergies may come back in a milder form and need to be treated again.

I believe that TAT works like homeopathic medicine: you are giving yourself a dose of the thing you're having trouble with. Your thought is a refined energy which, when combined with the TAT pose, is like the perfect medicine. You are giving yourself a dose of the item that is making you ill. Your resistance to it ends and you come to a peace with the item.

You have to be a highly-observant detective in allergy work. Things that are normally taken for granted have to be seen with new eyes. You could be allergic to the smell of one perfume, your friend's after-shave, or a new fabric softener you threw into your dryer. You could be allergic to your newspaper, your friend's cat or your new car. Enjoy the process of discovery and know that you can truly heal.

DR. DEVI NAMBUDRIPAD'S TOP TEN ALLERGENS 1. Eggs 2. Calcium 3. Vitamin C 4. B Complex 5. Sugar 6. Grains 7. Iron 8. Minerals 9. Vitamin A 10. Salt

76 THE TAT PROTOCOL IN SCRIPT FORM FOR ALLERGIES

Copyrighted by Tapas Fleming, November 22, 1996 --- What you say to your client/patient = Say to C/P: What you ask your client/patient's body = Say to B: ---

This script is given in the form of a practitioner working with a client or patient. If you are using it on yourself, you will be playing both roles: that of the practitioner and the patient. It is always essential to ask if it is OK to work on a particular item now and also to reflect on what happened after you do each step.

All essential instructions are in bold. The other procedures, instructions and

explanations to your C/P will change at your discretion depending on variables in your relationship with that person and how you like to work. Here are ways you are free to vary the instructions:

You might not use energetic field testing, or you might already have a favorite way to do it that is not the O-Ring test and you would substitute a method that works for you. You may prefer to do all Four Steps of TAT and not test the body each time to find

out if each step is going to be useful or not. This is fine, because doing all Four Steps will be no problem.

Your C/P may already understand the meaning of the origins or the “storage space,” so you won’t need to explain it each time.

You don’t need to test yourself to see when your C/P is done with a step. You can rely on them to tell you.

Your C/P might already know to let you know when they feel done with a step so you won’t need to repeat that each time.

FIND OUT IF IT IS OK TO WORK ON THIS NOW

First, establish an energetic field test to determine if it's ok to work on this problem now. For the O-Ring Test:

Say to C/P: "Hold."

Your action: A second after you've said hold, and they're holding strong, do the O-Ring Test on them.

Say to C/P: "As soon as you're done, relax." (Telling your C/P to relax in the context of energetic field testing means that they should relax their strong hold on their fingers.)

Say to B: "Body, show me what a 'strong' or 'yes' response looks like." Say to C/P: "Hold."

Your action: Pull a second after you've said "hold" and they're set. Say to C/P: "Relax."

Say to B: "Body, show me what a 'weak' or 'no' response looks like." Say to C/P: "Hold."

Your action: Pull a second after you've said "hold" and they're set. Say to C/P: "Relax. What allergen would you like to work on now?" Your action: Take notes in their words.

Say to B: Can we work on _________ (this allergen) now?

Say to C/P: "Hold."

Your action: Pull as soon as they're set. If they hold strong, it means 'yes'. If they don't, tell them they need to pick a different allergen or first do TAT for their thoughts about clearing this up which stand in the way of proceeding. Your action: If they haven't mentioned several allergies, go to STEP ONE.

If the person does name several allergies, and you want to prioritize which to work on first, write them down and then do this:

Say to B: "Show me a 'yes' for the one we should do first." Say to C/P: "Put your attention on _________ (allergen) and hold."

78 Your action: Test. Decide "the one that comes back with a 'yes' is the one we work on.”

Continue through list of allergens and write down the one that comes back with a 'yes'. Instead of you prioritizing by testing, you can also just ask your C/P "Which would you like to start with?"

Say to B: "Can we work on this now?"

Say to C/P: "Hold."

Your action: Test. If 'yes' from body, proceed to Step One.

If you do not do energetic field testing, then pray or make an intention that “If it is time for this to heal now, may it happen.”

Do not work more than 10 minutes a day using TAT if you do not do energetic field testing. If you do not do energetic field testing and your C/P feels any discomfort doing TAT, stop immediately.

STEP ONE

Say to C/P: "Hold a sample of the allergen, set it next to you, put it in your lap or think about it. Hold."

Your action: Test. A 'no' or 'weak' response from their body shows that they do indeed have a problem with this item.

Say to C/P: "Put your attention on ________ (allergen). Do the TAT pose. Let me

know when you feel a shift in your energy or you feel that you are done processing, or I'll let you know when I feel a change or when about four minutes have passed. This shift may occur in as little as a 10 seconds. " Your action: Put your attention on your C/P. Test on yourself while they are working, with

the intent for to your own body to "Show me a 'yes' when they're done." Watch your C/P to notice any shifts in their breathing, posture, movements, or facial expression. Be open 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 to