“Tapas Acupressure”
California
Acupuncturist Tapas Fleming developed TAT or Tapas Acupressure technique. The
technique based on Chinese Medicine involves holding certain acupuncture points
whilst focussing on the problem requiring treatment. It came about a few years
ago when the focus of Tapas’s practice was the treatment of allergies. At the
time she was using a treatment devised by Dr.Devi Nambudripad called NAET. This
required the patient to avoid the allergen for a period of 24 hours after
treatment. In many cases this was fine but in instances of severe allergy it
could also mean the person was restricted to a bread and water-eating programme
for a full day after treatment. This could be very stressful particularly in the
case of children. One afternoon during a lull in patient workload she had an
insight to use Urinary Bladder 1 to solve her dilemma. UB 1 or “Eyes Bright” is
an acupuncture point located on the edge of the inner eye, adjacent to the nose.
She found that if she used this point along with the third eye and the occipital
ridge at the back of the head, her patients could be desensitised to their
allergy and could then return to a normal diet as soon as they got home. This
overcame the whole stressful problem of 24 hours avoidance. Moreover, she
discovered it wasn’t necessary to needle the points, merely holding them whilst
thinking of the reactive substance was sufficient to bring about the required
change.
Then she stumbled
upon something else that was to take the TAT protocol outside the range of
allergy treatment and into a much wider field of application. Tapas was working
with a patient who had a sensitivity to salt. During the treatment it turned out
that she had been sexually abused as a child. Each time the abuse occurred, it
took place in a bar. After the perpetrator had finished he gave the little girl
a packet of potato chips. Potato chips or crisps are very salty. When Tapas used
her new technique she found not only did the allergy disappear but also the
causative trauma of abuse. Now she realised TAT was a very good method for
healing traumas and many other things as well.
The treatment
requires the client to hold the points with both hands in what is called the
Tapas pose. The therapist asks the person to put her mind on the problem and
maintain the pose for approximately one minute. This is repeated through seven
steps. The technique sounds incredibly easy but the affects are profound. Tapas
tells us “thoughts are real, with real energy!” “If these thoughts are
suppressed they create negative energy patterns which impact life and health”.
In Chinese Medicine, the home of acupuncture, energy blocks are the root cause
of disease. Think of the strictures as dams in a river. Above the dam lies a
large body of water and below a mere trickle or stream. Acupuncture works
because you place a tiny electrical charge by way of a metal needle, either
below or above the dam and this like an explosive shifts the blockage and allows
energy to flow freely, and thus balance is restored!
Traumas and
negative emotions are a bit like this dam. On one side is you and on the other
the negative experience. The result is a block. Thanks to TAT we can free the
obstruction by engaging it through the technique. This gives us an opportunity
to see over the dam, if you like! The new perspective allows you to view the
event in a different light and this will always change it in some way. Holding
the TAT pose somehow integrates the discomfort of the past event and brings
about peace and harmony. In the Tao this is balance and from a place of balance
we have healing and ultimate wellness.
TAT is a swift and
powerful means of changing negative emotions, past trauma, limiting beliefs and
physical symptoms quickly, painlessly and very effectively. It frequently yields
results where everything else has failed. You owe it to yourself to take a close
look at it!
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