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Tapas Fleming

creator of TAT

Dear Friend,

Gary Craig has kindly offered me the opportunity to meet you and tell you about TAT through the magic of our internet connection. This interview is by me “Interviewer” (pretending I’m you and don’t know me) and me “Tapas”.

Interviewer: Good morning Tapas Fleming! May I call you Tapas?

Tapas: Yes, go right ahead. And good morning to you!

Interviewer (I): Tapas, what is Tapas Acupressure Technique (TAT)sm?

Tapas: TAT is a do-it-yourself energy medicine technique based on Traditional Chinese Medicine.

I: Why Traditional Chinese Medicine?

Tapas: I’m a Licensed Acupuncturist. Traditional Chinese Medicine is the basis of acupuncture.

I: What would I get out of TAT? How might it help my clients?

Tapas: It can end all types of allergies, food sensitivities, multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS), and environmental illness (EI). TAT easily reduces traumatic stress. It can also dissolve any core negative belief.

I: Well, that covers a pretty broad range. What’s your success rate?

Tapas: For allergy work, it’s around 85% or better. For traumatic stress and the dissolution of core negative beliefs, it’s been 100% successful. I’ve never seen it fail once.

I: Do people have to repeat TAT a number of times for a problem?

Tapas: Rarely. When a person has a trauma and has previously used TAT to clear up allergies, some of the allergies may return in a milder form. Then they would repeat the TAT process for the allergies that returned. They would also do TAT for the trauma.

I: How did you create TAT?

Tapas: I was doing acupuncture using a technique for getting rid of allergies developed by Dr. Devi Nambudripad called NAET (Nambudripad’s Allergy Elimination Technique). Part of the protocol was that the person receiving the treatment needed to avoid the allergen for 25 hours immediately following the treatment. This meant that a person might only be able to eat white rice and cauliflower and water for 25 hours. This was a real pain to follow for patients, plus I didn’t enjoy delivering the news to the patient either. So early on, I came up with a way (by muscle testing) to let my patients know exactly when they had to avoid the allergen. And it was usually only for a couple of hours, which presented no hardship. It had been especially difficult for children to follow and for their moms to enforce.

I then found an acupuncture point that made it possible for the treatment to be effective without avoiding the allergen at all. So there were no special diets to be followed. A person was able to enjoy the food immediately after the treatment. The change was instantenous with the treatment.

After a while, I came up with acupuncture points that I found eliminated the need for many more treatments. It apparently covered a lot of healing all at once for a person. According to the protocol I had been using, a person might need a lot of “combinations” done. This meant that for each item a person was allergic to, they might need 10 or 20 or more treatments so that the item in combination with other foods or heat or cold or other vitamins had to be treated. Each treatment would be an additional office visit. I like effective tools that are cost-effective for my patients. So I was really pleased to find that all of the combinations became unnecessary to address as a result of adding the new points to my treatment.

One of the turning points for me in my practice was when a woman came to see me for a salt allergy. In the midst of our work together, a light went on for her and she shared, “I was sexually abused as a child. It was in a bar. Afterwards, I was given a bag of potato chips every time.” A light went on for me, too. I realized that the treatment I’d come up with for allergy work could be used directly to heal traumas as well. It was after that that I turned my attention toward reaching people in the mental health professions. I’m happy to have the chance to share this with you now!

I: Do you tap? You’ve got the perfect name for it!

Tapas: No, too bad isn’t it? Also, my name is pronounced Top not Tap.

I: So, what does TAT look like?

Tapas: There are a few points at the front of the head near the eyes that are lightly held with one hand and at the base of the skull with the other hand.

I: A lot of the readers today are not allowed to touch patients. How do you get around that?

Tapas: The patient or client does the technique on themselves. This empowers them and also makes it so that no practitioner is in danger.

I: OK, once they’re in that position...

Tapas: I call it the TAT pose.

I: Once they’re in the TAT pose, then what do they do?

Tapas: They put their attention on the problem, then the opposite condition, and a few more steps that cover most of the places within a person where they’re stuck.

I: This sounds pretty simple. Why do you think it works?

Tapas: According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, any pain is a condition of stagnant “qi” or energy. I’m sure your readers have a familiarity based on their own experience of something being “stuck”. This technique gets it un-stuck, or flowing again. So the pain is gone.

I: Other techniques apparently do this as well.

Tapas: Yes, they do.

I: What is different about TAT?

Tapas: It’s mine, so I like it the best! (Laughter.) TAT can handle allergies, and it has a different feeling to it than each of the other techniques. It has a feeling for me of bestowing a state of profound peace. This also makes it so that the person doing it doesn’t usually come up with any disbelief about it working. They feel within themselves a deep change and they enjoy it. I think that each of us naturally resonates and enjoys different techniques, and that we should each work with what we like and what gives us the results we’re looking for.

I: How about a recent story from your practice that illustrates the power of TAT?

Tapas: I have a patient who had a domineering, abusive father. My patient told me that it was so bad that he was afraid to go to sleep from fear that his father might kill him. My patients’s hands were red, irritated and breaking out in bubbles and scabbing. He had trouble with his hands when he was under stress. His father, whom he saw very rarely, was going to be coming to visit for my patient’s wedding. He spoke to me about how his life all changed in eighth grade. He had been at the top of his class and went to the bottom. He had been pretty happy and suddenly his ability to concentrate and to feel happy were gone. As I listened, I thought that perhaps he was allergic to his own testosterone. I mentioned it. He told me that yes, he hated shaving. As he spoke more, he realized that indeed, he hated his blossoming manly self. We did the TAT treatment about his hating his own qualities of manliness that were exactly like his father. After the treatment, he said that he felt “internally cleansed like he never had before”. He called me a couple of days later to say that his hands were finally beginning to get better instead of worse.

I: What touches you so much about this story and your work?

Tapas: I am amazed at how our bodies translate and hold our feelings about life into chemical realities. I am happy that we can work with a feeling about something which our body holds as an allergy without knowing the chemical names of all of it. Even if I didn’t have the thought “testosterone”, I could have simply had the thought “You hate your father in yourself” and his body would have done all the chemical, neurological, energetic transformations. It pleases me that I don’t have to know more. I can just listen to the reality of what my patient tells me and work with it. I am so touched because it’s really watching disease, pain and unhappiness turn into the gold of happiness and health and peace before my eyes. I sit there with my patient going “Wow.” I’m in awe of the transformative healing power I’m witnessing.

I: Don’t you get a big head over this?

Tapas: No, not really. I don’t actually think that TAT does the healing or that I do the healing. I think that TAT facilitates the healing power of God or the Holy Spirit or whatever you like to call the Life Force of the Universe. I don’t know chemistry or neurology to where I could go into a body and make changes like I see go on before my eyes. I don’t know how to put the light in someone’s eyes like I see in front of me when I work with my patients. It’s like watching the dawn of love in a person’s being and it constantly inspires me.

I: Here, can I give you a tissue?

Tapas: Yes, thanks. (Stops to wipe eyes and blow nose.)

I: How can our readers learn more about TAT?

Tapas: They can check my website at http://www.tat-intl.com for information on upcoming workshops and the how-to workbook and videos I’ve created so that anyone can learn TAT. I can also be contacted by phone at 310-378-7381 or by email at TAPASVINI@aol.com .

I: Thank you for this introduction to TAT, Tapas.

Tapas: Ah, thank you very much. It has truly been my pleasure. And my thanks to Gary Craig for making this meeting possible for all of us.

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