TAPAS ACUPRESURE TECHNIQUE
From Trauma to Peace with Tapas Acupressure Technique


Background to TAT

Can you be at peace with something that’s bothered you your whole life?
Yes, you can
and in only a few minutes with the help of a specialized technique called Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT).  What you have always thought of as ‘that bad thing that happened to me’ can really change.  It can move from trauma into body-felt peace in minutes. 

TAT is a new acupressure technique that can reduce traumatic stress, allergic reactions or any fixed emotional state.  It allows information and energy to be processed by a person’s whole body-mind in minutes.  It moves that bad thing” from cold dark storage into the warm light of the body’s healing.  It moves from a place of distance from us, trying to hold that ‘bad thing’ away and brings it to into the vision of our body’s accepting vision wherein all things are equal.  This means accepting that it is all part of nature or God or life as it is.  The trauma is moved from the scale of judgment to the place in ourselves wherein all things are included and we feel at peace with them. 

In applying TAT, this transformation happens in a few minutes.  It is body-felt change, not a mental determination. 

What if the traumatic event were really part of you and not separate from you?  What if that moment, including all the players, were really part of yourself?  TAT works on the principle that the inability to recognize that all events are part of who we are is what creates traumatic stress.  This separation gives the trauma power.  Part of you is ‘here’ and part of you is ‘there’ with that ‘bad thing’ and trying to hold it away from yourself is very tiring.  It takes constant vigilance.  You are trying to maintain a separation between parts of your own self.  You are fighting your own energy. 

When you do TAT, these two parts come together.  Being freed from trying to hold it away from yourself is energizing.  Your immune system no longer has to be constantly on the alert trying to protect you from what was really yours all along.  You may be thinking that you are not that ‘bad thing’ and could never be a person who would do that kind of thing.  But as Pogo the comic strip character said, “We have met the enemy and he is us.” 

According to Traditional Chinese medicine, many acupuncture meridians merge and enter the brain at specific points on the body.  TAT involves touching these points, on the skull and near the eyes, to activate the brain’s vision centre.  Leading-edge physics research has shown that information in the body is communicated by the body's own light or bio photon system. 

When a trauma occurs, it is just like pushing the ‘hold’ button on a VCR.  Applying TAT is like pushing ‘play’.  The information that was on hold is ‘seen’ by activating the vision system and the individual can truly let go of the past. 

When a practitioner applies TAT s/he focuses on a trauma, or energy stagnation and touches acupressure points.  The combination of the person’s attention and the activation of the acupressure points opens up the flow of held information and allows it to reach the brain.  It is then integrated into the person’s body-mind and released while simultaneously relieving any related physical, emotional or mental stress. 

TAT also works for allergies because many food sensitivities are held in place by genetically-stored information, frozen in place by a trauma and passed down from generation to generation.  For example, if your ancestors had only mouldy wheat available to eat as they took a ship from the Old Country to the New World, your body might hold the information that wheat is bad for your family.  If you allow that information to be updated you can give your whole body-mind a new way of relating to wheat.  This can mean eliminating the symptoms of sleepiness, poor concentration, itchy eyes and bloating suffered by your ancestors when they ate mouldy wheat. 

Allergies can also result from exposure to chemicals in the environment, foods and air.  TAT can change the energetic relationship to anything – even people – by giving you a means of updating your old, unhealthy relationship with that element and resetting your energetic relationship to one of equanimity.
{Shared Vision, Vancouver – July, 1997}

TAT (Tapas Acupressure Technique) is an exciting accelerated information processing technique which has shown extraordinary results in the treatment of traumatic stress, allergic reactions and negative fixed emotional states.  Based on the ancient system of Traditional Chinese medicine, TAT allows information and energy to be processed by the body-mind system. 

TAT  Is easy to do and can be applied to oneself or others. 

TAT  Is an acupressure technique that reduces traumatic stress or any fixed emotional state in minutes. 

TAT  Reduces genetic traumas which have resulted in allergies or lack of self-esteem.  Resolves negative beliefs.  Enhances intimate relationships.  Strengthens the immune system.  Lessens allergic and chemical reactions. 

TAT  Can be integrated with Psychotherapy, Counselling, Hypnosis, EFT, EMDR, NLP and almost all Traditional and Alterntative healing Modalities. 


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Tapas Fleming, L.Ac

The originator of TAT is a gifted practitioner of energy medicine.  She is licensed as an acupuncturist in California where she practices Traditional Chinese Medicine.  She was trained at the Emperor’s College of Traditional Chinese Medicine in California and received advanced training in China. 

In 1992, she began specializing in bio-energetic allergy treatments without needles and in 1993 developed TAT.  Presentations of TAT are attended and endorsed by Psychiatrists, Psychologists, Counsellors and Social Workers who have enthusiastically responded to these unique psychological perspectives.


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Testimonials

"TAT is one of the new Power Therapies that is producing dramatic changes in trauma, stress, allergies, fear, self esteem and promoting self healing."
-Lee Pulos Ph.D, Vancouver, B.C. Clinical Psychologist

“I’ve used TAT on an almost daily basis in my clinical practice.  I’ve used TAT on its own and interwoven with different treatment modalities with a wide variety of clinical issues and ages.  I find it particularly helpful with long term patients, traumatized adolescents and young children.  TAT presents a respectful approach to the total person.  TAT has been a wonderful addition in my therapeutic repertoire.”
-Marilyn Deak, Ph.D

“TAT is an elegant treatment in that it is simple yet very powerful.  My clients have used it successfully for a range of difficulties including allergies, trauma, problem emotional states and limiting/faulty beliefs.  I consider TAT to be an indispensable tool for mind-body healing.”
- Helen Tuggy, Ph.D, Clinical Psychologist

“TAT is fast, effective and easy to combine with other therapies.  I find it especially good with early childhood trauma.  Combining TAT with other techniques, particularly Thought Field Therapy.  I am moving clients through dissociative disorders more quickly than I ever could have imagined.  My enthusiasm for TAT’s effectiveness with my client’s is second only to my enthusiasm for its effectiveness on myself.”
-Eroca Shaler, M.A. Registered psychologist

“TAT has enhanced my practice.  I use it to help clients process and resolve the pain attached to traumatic memories.  One client resolved his anger at his father for not protecting him from an abuser, who was a family ‘friend,’ in a matter of minutes.  In the ensuing weeks, he developed a close and honest relationship with his father.”
-Jeff Bakely, M.S.S., L.S.W.

“I have used TAT with great success in a variety of traumas such as abandonment when given up for adoption, agoraphobia, sport performance fear, relationship breakup.  This technique has resulted in a major shift and dramatic progress in therapy.”
-Heather Fay, M.D.

“Tapas is a creative, sensitive and systematic healer who is deeply committed to teaching others.  I have used TAT with medical doctors and professionals as well as individuals skeptical to alternative therapies.  All have been profoundly affected and pleased with the results.  I have been a professional for 30 years and have never encountered such a powerful clearing tool.”
-Roberta Roth, LCSW

“I have found 95% success rate on SUDS (subjective units of distress) for emotional/psychological distress.  The emotions have included sadness, anxiety, hurt, upset, tension, guilt and anger.”
-Philip H. Friedman, Ph.D., Foundation for Well Being

“I have been trained in EMDR, TFT and TAT.  These are all powerful techniques.  TAT is my choice in many treatment situations because it is very effective with difficult cases, seldom triggers intense emotions, is very simple to use and can be easily taught to patients for self-management of emotions.  I have seen incredible changes in some of my patients when using TAT.  I wouldn’t be without it.”
-Garry A. Flint, Ph.D, Vernon, B.C.

“Tat can be rapidly and profoundly beneficial.  There have been a number of clinical situatuins where TAT proved itself useful after other treatment approaches did not seem to be successful.”
-Robert B. Levin, M.D., Bernardsville, N.J.

“I was trained first in EMDR, TFT and more recently in TAT and Process Healing and I have effectively used all three. I believe that TAT enables a person to assimilate and process previously unresolved trauma, rapidly.  I have used it effectively, both as a singular treatment and in combination with the others for well over a year.  I have used it with all kinds of trauma ranging from head injuries, motor vehicle accidents to physical & sexual abuse.  As with EMDR, however, I believe that it’s use may need to be in the hands of a skilled clinician with skills in cognitive therapy.  I perceive TAT to be highly respectful of the individual, who guides the process and learns to be their own trauma specialist and therapist.  I welcome this gentle and respectful technique which can facilitate the healing process within us all.”
-H. Jane Wakefield, M.A. Vernon, B.C.  Registered Psychologist, Certified Trauma Specialist.

For more information: http://www.tat-intl.com


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