Dear Friend,
Thank you for downloading this e-book. You will find delights here for your happiness and health. You will find easy ways to heal negative beliefs, allergic reactions and the stress from any trauma -- no matter how big it was, how long ago it was or how recently it was. You can heal a heartbreak or an allergy to potatoes.
This book was written in 1996. A lot of new ways to use TAT have become clear to me since then.
A couple of years ago, I had breast cancer. TAT helped me heal the emotional roots of it and helped me get through the treatments. I learned a lot and put what I learned in a video or DVD for you. It's called Healing the Emotional Aspects of Cancer, but the information in it is good for healing the emotional aspects that accompany any type of physical illness.
I also highly recommend that you get the TAT Workshop 2000. There are approaches to using TAT and
explanations of how it works and how to use it that you won't find in any of the other materials. If you use TAT as part of your practice, this is really a must-have. A complete review of all the subjects covered in the TAT Workshop 2000 follows this letter. I think you will be
excited to see what you can learn.
You will find information in this book about energy field testing. I don't use energy field testing anymore as part of TAT. I recommend that you just do all the Steps of TAT for whatever you want to heal.
To order these materials now visit the online shop at http://www.unstressforsuccess.com My dear friend, every TAT item is full of fun and laughter. They are full of my deepest, heart-felt wishes for your happiness. I hope you enjoy them all. With TAT, healing is fun.
With love, Tapas
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TAT 2000 Workshop Video Course Outline
TAPE 1
Tape # 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 they evolved
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
TAPE 2
Tape # Location
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
TAPE 3
Tape # Location
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 long history 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
TAPE 4
Tape # Location
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
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You Can Heal Now
The Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT)
Workbook
by
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
v CONTENTS
Introduction 1
Part One What is a Trauma and What Does TAT Do? 3
Cellular Memory 5
Learning How to Talk to Your Body 7 The Importance of Thoughts and Intentions 9 How to Do TAT For Traumas 10
Additional Steps of TAT That May Be Necessary 15 The Great File System 17
Part Two Allergies 19
Animals 20
The Chaos Principle 22 Chemical Exposure 23 Children and TAT 24
Clearing Yourself of the Day 28
Considerations, or A Belt That’s Too Tight 29 Discovering Your Hidden Worst Qualities 31 Dream Interpretations 32
Families 33
Fears and Phobias 34
Helping an Attached Being Move On 35
Hospitalization and Other Medical Interventions 36 A Long Period of an On-Going Traumatic Life 37 Money and Success 38
Prejudice and Inherited Experiences, Stuck Thoughts and Negative Beliefs 40 Rape and Sexual Abuse 41
Recovering Parts of Yourself That Died 43 Stories 44
Surrogate Treatment 50 Veterans and TAT 51
Conclusion What’s At the Bottom of This? 53
A Review of the Four Steps of TAT 54 Testimonials 55
Appendix Protocols in Script Form for Professionals
A Few Words About Myself For Further Information on TAT Recommended Reading
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
2 Without mentioning the complete image I was seeing, I just talked to the patient about the dust of the land where she was living, and in her conversation to me she revealed that she came from a long line of German farmers. What was coming to me from her body was what I would call the living history of her body. This living history could also be called cellular memory. When someone experiences a trauma, that memory seems to be stored and passed down at a cellular level.
I was inspired to explore cellular memory more deeply as I worked with another patient who, by her early 30's, had been in nine car crashes that she hadn't caused. She had suffered a concussion and other major traumas to the head, and was suffering from constant neck and headaches with a couple of migraines a week at the time I saw her. The story I "saw" as I was working with her was about a young boy of eight or so who was in a mountain cabin with his father when a crazy mountain man came in and killed his father by smashing his head open. When I mentioned this image, my patient was silent for a few moments and then told me that her father had fallen, smashed his head and died, and she was there when it happened. When she told her sisters about this, they told her that they knew of two other men in the family who had been murdered by blows to the head. They also talked about the fact that their children had suffered an inordinate amount of concussions and blows to the head in the course of growing up.
I began to realize that along with TAT I had been given the gift of seeing the cellular history of a human body and that TAT was a way to heal traumas that had been passed down from generation to generation. What I have learned from working with many friends and patients over the last several years is that when the stories of these cells are heard, the traumas they have been holding are released and the cells are able to rejoin the organism they are part of and get on with the business of living.
A person doesn't have to have a conscious or psychic vision of what happened in order to use TAT. The TAT pose, along with your focus on the trauma, creates a connection between the cells' memory and your function of vision. When you "re-view" the trauma, it becomes physically, mentally and emotionally integrated within moments.
Before explaining the TAT method, I would first like to give you a general overview of Traditional Chinese Medicine, an explanation of the nature of traumas, what traumatic stress is and how it can be quickly and easily released.
WHAT IS A TRAUMA AND WHAT DOES TAT DO?
Thoughts are real things with real energy. When they attempt to deny reality, they create negative energy patterns that impact your life and your health by causing your energy to stagnate. From the view of Traditional Chinese Medicine, a blockage of energy creates disease. If you think of the blockage as a boulder in your body's life flow, you can easily imagine that the life energy that would naturally be flowing along certain streams is going to be diverted. On the upstream side of the boulder, there will be dammed up energy, on the downstream side you will find a lack of energy. This creates emotional, mental and physical disharmony which is known as a yin-yang imbalance. On one side is too much, on the other is not enough. The goal of Traditional Chinese Medicine is to achieve balance.
A trauma occurs when life becomes unbearable and you tell it "No." Variations on this theme include: "Hold it right there;" "This is too much for me;" "If this happens, I won't survive." This is not necessarily a conscious choice, but it is a natural one at that moment, and it sets up patterns of mental, emotional, and physical behavior. Traumatic stress is the stress to your system of continually trying to hold off the experience of a trauma. The event really did happen. Traumatic stress ends when the trauma is no longer resisted.
Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on the ancient concepts of Taoism. One of the primary concepts that will help you understand how TAT works is yin and yang. These represent any two opposites. Yang symbolizes light, yin darkness. Yang is active, yin is solid or static.
In the case of trauma, one side is you, the other is your trauma. If you are in a situation of holding the trauma away from yourself, you have stagnation in the flow of life. Yin and yang are meant to alternate in a dynamic flow of natural movement and change. If you consider yourself as the "victim" of a trauma and the other(s) involved in the trauma as "perpetrator,” and that this is an absolute, then no movement can occur. Within yin, there is a bit of yang. Within yang, there is a bit of yin. Yin and yang together symbolize the moving, dynamic whole. You are both yin and yang, not just one or the other. When you deny the existence of any part of your Self, then life comes to a standstill. You become cut off from life and from yourself. Your only company is your trauma.
You have the power to change your relationship with a trauma by directly engaging it through TAT. TAT is a way of saying to your whole body-mind: "Have another look at
4 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 once again. The experience you have doing TAT is of wholeness. This means that you and 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 a condition of isolation, your traumatic stress ends and there is peace. This can also be called the harmonization of yin and yang, which in Taoism is represented by the T'ai Chi symbol.
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 current stresses.
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.
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, ask your 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 let your body respond to what you've asked it to do. Let it happen by itself.
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 problem with that" and then say or think, "Body, would you please show me a no?" Now, rub your 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 does not inherently mean “No." However you set it up is how your body will respond. All you 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 do that."
If these methods don't work for you, or if you are concerned that you're making it happen, or if you're concerned that these techniques conflict with your religious beliefs, you can put your healing in the hands of God or the Holy Spirit or simply the divine wisdom of the universe. Whatever you call it, it is that which knows what is truly best for you. Entreat that divine entity, "If it is time for this problem to be healed, then may it happen now. If it is not the time for it to be healed, may it happen when the time is right." Then you can rest in the knowledge that this either is 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 hands of the divine, be sure to ask whether or not each step of TAT is necessary when you are working on a problem.
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 between you 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 peaceful and harmonious one in seconds.
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.
12 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 attention on it.
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 could help 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)." You can 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 be aware 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 for Step 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!
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 be healed.
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 put your 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 view belonging to “Them.” It's as if you become Them and see the incident from their point
16 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 nurse sick mares back to health that people call me to help with sick mares who hate people."
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 to whatever 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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TAT Workbook
Part Two
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 by testing 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. Then proceed with the Four Steps of TAT as usual.
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 something like, “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 another time. 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 and open the door.
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THE CHAOS PRINCIPLE
OR “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.
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 taken minutes. 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 that she 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 symptoms had returned.
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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 results.
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 that made 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
26 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 something is 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 a trauma. 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.”
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 free them 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 from their 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 have this pleasure.
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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 body tells you are necessary.
CONSIDERATIONS,
OR A BELT THAT’S TOO TIGHT
Some people have big, overlying thoughts that make progress difficult for them. These thoughts are like a lingering cover of clouds that have to be cleared away before you can work on specific problems. They are thoughts like:
Nothing ever goes my way. I can't heal.
No one can help me. I'm beyond reach.
I'm isolated and no one can understand me. I don't deserve help.
Nothing works on me.
I've never been helped and you won't help me either. I can never change.
If I do this, I'll die.
Other variations are what I would call Childhood Matter-of-Fact Conclusions. As children, we often feel stuck in the situation we're in, so we draw ultimate conclusions about ourselves or other people or life such as:
I have a blaming mother. I have an angry father.
I am stuck with my blaming mother. I am stuck with my angry father.
I have to have a blaming mother because I can't go anywhere else. I have to have a blaming father because I can't go anywhere else. I have to live in this house.
I can never do what I want or have any fun.
These become "how life is" for us, and not surprisingly, we end up with relationships and life situations just like these, because that's "how life is." Thoughts like this tie up a person's energy like a belt that's too tight and doesn't let the person relax. This belt, which is holding a bundle of problems inside, has to be loosened.
How to Loosen Your Belt
If you find that you have a lingering cloud of feeling stuck, even after doing all Four Steps of TAT, take a moment to be quiet and simply witness what your mind tells you. It
30 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 or large the thought may seem. If another such thought comes up, do TAT on that. Continue in this way until you can do TAT on the problem you originally wanted to work on.
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'm critical 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 you.
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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A fear or phobia is a way of trying to hold something away from you. Trying to hold it "out there.” When you do TAT, you engage with it directly. You put your attention on it as if it were happening now. Engage and strike! Engage and heal, really.
Instead of holding the thought "I'm afraid of ____________,” you change your thought to "____________ is happening." Then do TAT. The first thought is just what you think about the thing. The second thought is you in it. Now. It's happening to you now.
For example, you're afraid of flying. Instead of thinking "I'm afraid my plane will crash" you put your attention on "My plane is crashing" and do TAT. Related thoughts might be "Fear is gripping my stomach and my teeth are clenched." Next put your attention on that and do TAT. Another related thought might be "I'll never see my family again and my heart will break." Put your attention on it: "I will never see my family again and my heart is breaking."
HOW TO CLEAR A FEAR State your fear (silently, aloud, or in writing).
Put your fear in present tense (it is happening to me now). Do TAT with your attention on it happening to you now.
after a minute, come out of the TAT pose. Put your attention on your fear. Does anything about it still grab you? A sound, sight, feeling, thought, similar trauma, or sensation in your body? Take whatever comes. You don't have to figure out how it's related to your original fear. Just accept that whatever it is, that's what's there for you. That's the next thing that needs to be healed in relation to you.
Put your attention on that and do TAT again. Continue repeating this step and the previous one until nothing more comes up. Do TAT for a minute for each thing that comes up or until you notice a shift in your energy or if the thing goes out of your awareness.
If your body says yes to the second step of TAT, make a positive statement in relation to your phobia. For example: "I can fly and live."
If your body says yes to the third step of TAT, put your attention on the origins of the problem and do TAT. Likewise, if your body says yes to the fourth step of TAT, put your attention on the storage space of the problem and do TAT.
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 abused and/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 similar traumas 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 not
comfortable 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 raised their hands!
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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, and you'll be more available to others in your personal relationships.
