TAT Group Healing Melbourne

TAT (Tapas Acupressure Technique) is a gentle, simple and powerful healing technique that combines lightly holding a few acupressure points on your head as you put your attention on a problem.

TAT is well established in America and Europe, though relatively new to Australia. In January, 2008, a small group of practitioners (including myself) attended a TAT workshop in Melbourne. It was the first TAT workshop ever held in Australia. The teacher was Reza Gunawan, an Holistic Health Practitioner based in Jakarta, Indonesia. He is a very gifted and insightful man who inspired everyone with his love and appreciation for the TAT process.

Reza is now returning to Melbourne to lead a special TAT group healing session in Burwood. This is a fabulous healing opportunity for anyone interested in experiencing the benefits of TAT.

WHEN?

Friday, November 7, 2008.
6 – 7 pm to learn the TAT pose
7.30 pm for the group healing, followed by supper.

WHERE?

Unity of Melbourne Hall, 4 Renown Street, Burwood.

Entry cost- $20

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To register for this event contact:

Anne Smith ph: 9830 5548 email: amazingcalm@fastmail.com.au
Heather Wilks ph: 9572 2970 email: heather@ohnaturale.com

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How TAT Helps Trauma Victims

TAT for war VETS

In August, 2008, a TAT workshop was held in America for combat veterans and active military personnel. Retired Colonel, Brian Davis attended, just to prove that TAT wouldn’t help soldiers. The first night of the workshop, he decided to work on the very worst trauma that ever happened to him in combat. When he returned for the second night, the TAT team was in tears after he told them that he had dreamed of his children for the first time ever and that he’d slept well for the first time in years. He explained that previously, he’d typically wake up 15 times a night in one combat situation or another, pace through his home, sleep restlessly again and would finally greet the day in a torn up bed. After learning TAT, he reported that the bedding next to him was smooth and unruffled from his peaceful sleep. His story was reported in the local Columbus, Georgia newspaper.

Further workshops for veterans suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) are under way in America.

TAT for Disaster Relief

The same aspects of TAT that make it deal for war veterans also apply in the event of a major disaster because it is very simple to learn and always uses the same acupuncture points on the head. TAT does not require anyone to relive or re-experience a trauma. It is actually less language-intensive than other forms of
therapeutic intervention and allows a person to focus attention on the issue as s/he sees it, without having to describe what happened or put words to it in any way.

TAT has an outstanding track record for use in disaster relief around the world. The Mexican Association for Crisis Therapy used TAT with large groups of about 1,650 children after natural disasters in Mexico (floods), Nicaragua (floods and landslides), Colombia (earthquake) and Venezuela (floods and landslides). TAT was also used successfully for Tsunami relief in Sri Lanka, India and Indonesia.

Please visit the TAT(Life) website for a free booklet – How To Do TAT® http://www.tatlife.net/

Cheers

Angie Muccillo
EFT Practitioner & Instructor
Remedial Massage Therapist (Member AAMT)
(BA Social Science- Psych/Soc)
(Cert IV Remedial Massage)
(EFT-ADV)

Location

Sublime Massage Clinic
Hutton Street
Thornbury Melbourne

Vic Australia 3071

mob: 0417391055
sublime@pacific.net.au
angiemuccillo@gmail.com

Decisions We Make As Children

I recently had an EFT session with a woman who has suffered anxiety and depression since her childhood shortly after her father committed suicide. Naturally this is a tragic, deeply traumatic and sad event in any child’s life. She has consequently had years of therapy and whilst she can talk about her father’s death now, it took a very long time before she could do so. At the time and understandably so, due to the level of grief and overwhelm experienced by her mother and family, no-one ever talked about what happened or comforted her in any way and all she remembers is feeling so completely alone, scared and with this constant aching sadness in her heart. After her dad’s death she was always sent to school early and remembers sitting and crying alone and in fear behind the shelter sheds. The family’s grief was so deep and their ability to function normally so severely impaired that her needs for comfort and support were not able to be met by her immediate family.

After tapping on several issues around her father’s death, how she felt as a child and other issues currently affecting her life, she became saddened to realise just how much of her life has been consumed by this and that she was still in part hanging on to the past, despite wanting very much to move on and “get on with it.”  So at this point we tapped on:

“Even though part of me is still hanging on to the past, I deeply and completely accept myself.”

“Even though I’m so sad that this has consumed so much of my life that I don’t even know what it’s like not to have it, I deeply and completely accept myself.

“Even though I’ve not had the career, the family, the life I wanted because of this, I deeply and completely accept myself.”

“Even though if I give up the past now I won’t know where I’ll be, who I am or where to go, I choose to focus on my personal vision of peace” (which she described earlier, as the life she wanted)

As she tapped on this, a very significant memory of herself as a child popped into her head. She distinctly remembered making a decision “to be miserable.” The reasoning behind this was “if I am miserable someone might come.” She explained that as a child she always felt sad, alone and scared, often crying for hours waiting for someone to come and comfort her but no-on ever did. This “childhood decision” was made at a time when she was in deep mourning for the loss of her father. The “decision to be miserable” became a part of her life and how she experienced it from then on. Something that is likely to be at the core of her depression.

“Even though I made a decision as a child to be miserable, I am an adult now and choose to make a different choice. I choose to be happy and focus on my personal vision of peace instead and let go of the vow I made as a hurt, sad and lonely child”

As we know childhood events shape our lives. I can’t help but wonder how different her life may have been, if as a child living under those circumstances, she had EFT to release all those feelings of sadness, hurt and loneliness. Of course that would not have bought her father back, but the deep pain in her heart that she has felt ever since and that manifests as anxiety, may have definitely been eased.

I think this highlights the importance of teaching our children to tap, whatever opportunity we get because we may never know when they might need it in the future. A happy carefree child today may lose a parent or be subjected to any other similar tragedy tomorrow. A child who has lost a parent (or suffered any other tragedy) in today’s age does have access to these tools and we as adults have the ability to make a difference by teaching it to them.

Do you remember any negative choices you made as a child? Could they be affecting the quality of your life? If so, you have the opportunity as an adult to tap and erase that choice and replace it with a healthier choice. Consider what being at peace means for you and add it to your choice statement when you tap on it.

“Even though as a child I made a choice to……., I deeply and completely accept myself and choose to focus on……(your vision of peace) instead.”

As the author of Tapping For Kids my mission is to help as many children as possible learn “the art of tapping” so that they have the opportunity either with an adult or alone in their room or behind the shelter sheds or in any moment of need to release the strong and overwhelming emotions that they are confronted with. Peaceful children are more likely to become peaceful adults.

Help create peace in the life of a child by teaching them to use EFT routinely as a way of healing and soothing emotional upsets.

Angie Muccillo
EFT Practitioner & Instructor
Remedial Massage Therapist (Member AAMT)
(BA Social Science- Psych/Soc)
(Dip Illustrative Photography – Fine Art/Photjournalism)
(Cert IV Remedial Massage)
(EFT-ADV)

Location

Sublime Massage Clinic
Hutton Street
Thornbury Melbourne

Vic Australia 3071

mob: 0417391055
sublime@pacific.net.au
angiemuccillo@gmail.com

Heal Your Grief

Mercedes Oestermann van Essen
Heal Your Grief: Accept Your Loss & Love Your Life Again

Heal Your Grief reveals potent energy techniques to heal bereavement and find joy in your life. You will find advice on how to cope with bereavement and deal with loss and trauma: be it the loss of a loved one, terminal illness, a divorce or bankruptcy; and love your life again.

Drawing on her experience with subtle energies Mercedes has came up with a fresh way of looking at how our energy matrix changes during grief. Combining ancient healing modalities with the latest insights on the workings of the mind she came up with a new formula to address emotional turmoil and trauma.

This book is a practical guide and handbook for bereavement.

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EFT For Whiplash

by Rod Sherwin © 2008 http://www.tap4health.com/

At the recent Mind Body Spirit Festival (in Melbourne) I helped four different people with Whiplash. Whiplash is an injury caused when the head snaps forward and then back again and is most often associated with a rear-end collision in a motor vehicle.

Symptoms reported by sufferers of Whiplash include: pain and aching to the neck and back, referred pain to the shoulders, sensory disturbance (such as pins and needles) to the arms & legs and headaches.

I treated people with Whiplash from 30 years ago to 2 days ago. One person had experienced a head ache for 10 years after a car accident. For each person, using 5-10 minutes of EFT, they were able to completely relieve the neck and back pain associated with the whiplash.

If you have ever experienced a car accident or similar trauma to neck and spine be sure to apply EFT to the memory of the accident even if you have no obvious symptoms. Your body remembers the trauma and may still be compensating. Here’s an EFT sequence that can get you started.

Karate Chop: “Even though I have this pain in my neck and back caused by whiplash, I deeply and completely accept myself. Even though my body remembers the trauma of the accident regardless of how long ago it was, I’m ready to release it now. I ask my body to release and heal the trauma that is causing this neck and back pain, allowing myself to heal 100% even better than before.”

Eyebrow (EB): “This whiplash pain in my neck”
Side of the eye (SE): “This whiplash pain and my body’s memory of the accident”
Under the eye (UE): “All the whiplash trauma in my body”
Under the nose (UN): “This whiplash pain in my neck”
Chin (CH): “This whiplash pain in my neck”
Collarbone (CB): “The whiplash pain in my back and neck”
Under the arm (UA): “This whiplash pain in my neck, the headaches, the backaches, allowing myself to heal”
Under the breast (UB): “I’m ready to forgive myself for any thing I did to contribute to this whiplash, and open to one day forgiving anyone else who had anything to do with this whiplash”

After a few rounds, reassess your pain and range of movement, taking care of your own physical wellbeing. Usually, after a few rounds, the pain will move or change in some way. Continue chasing the pain, and come up with a new focusing phrase for the new location of the pain and continue applying EFT until there is no trace left.

This article appeared in Rod Sherwin’s Tap For Health Newsletter. To sign up for his newsletter visit http://www.tap4health.com/

Rod Sherwin is an Energy Therapist, Speaker, and Consultant who helps you transform the quality of your life using breakthrough techniques from the emerging field of Energy Psychology including the Emotional Freedom Techniques (EFT). Explore 100s of FREE articles about applying EFT to stress, fear, money, relationships, weight loss, chronic pain, and depression at www.tap4health.com

Using TAT to Release Trauma

By Tapas Flemming www.tatlife.com

What is Trauma?

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.

How Does TAT Help?

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 this.” It is an opportunity to change, based on taking a new look rather than continuing to look away. By taking another look, within the context of TAT’s direction of the body’s 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.

Applying TAT to Cellular Memory

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.

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Using EFT on Traumatic Memories including War Memories, Accidents, Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Abuse

by Gary Craig www.emofree.com

EFT & Traumatic Memories

Traumatic memories generate a wide variety of emotional reactions when people recall them. Some become very intense. They get headaches or stomach aches. Their hearts pound. They sweat. They cry. They may have sexual dysfunction, nightmares, grief, anger, depression and any number of other emotional and physical problems.

The discovery statement upon which EFT is built:

“The cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.”

Thus every negative emotion you have regarding a traumatic memory is caused by a “zzzzzt” in your energy system. That means the solution to your problem is conceptually very easy. Just eliminate the “zzzzzt” and the emotional impact will fade to zero. No more nightmares. No more headaches. No more pounding heart. No more problems whatsoever. You will still have the memory, of course. But that is all. The emotional charge will be neutralized. Our tool for this, of course, is The Basic Recipe. A few trips through it should give relief. How many trips you need, however, depends on how many aspects there are to the memory.

Aspects

Aspects are important. Aspects are different parts of the memory that contribute to your emotional intensity. Most traumatic memories have only one main aspect. Thus 1 to 3 brief trips through The Basic Recipe will usually suffice. You will be rid of the problem in a matter of minutes and, in most cases, it will never return.

Some traumatic memories, though, have several aspects. They require more time because more trips through The Basic Recipe are needed. But even if extra trips are necessary, we are usually only talking minutes here. Maybe 20 or 30 minutes instead of 5 or 6. What we need, obviously, is a way to locate these aspects. Once located, it is a simple matter to address them one by one until every aspect of the memory has been neutralized. We can do this rather efficiently by using the “short movie in your mind” concept. A short movie in your mind. Consider a traumatic memory as a short movie that runs in the theater of your mind. There is a beginning. There are main characters and events. And there is an end.

Usually, the “movie” plays in a flash and ends in a familiar unwanted emotion. Because the movie plays so fast, we are unaware that it may have different aspects that are contributing to the negative emotion. It seems to come from the movie as a whole. If we could run the movie in slow motion, the different aspects could be located and then addressed.

So that is what we do. We run the movie in slow motion. Narrate the movie. The best way to do that is to narrate the movie OUT LOUD. Tell it to a friend, or a mirror or a tape recorder. And, most importantly, tell it in detail. This automatically slows the movie down because words are much slower than thoughts.

As you tell it in detail, each aspect will make itself known to you. Stop as soon as you feel any intensity and perform The Basic Recipe on it as though it was a separate traumatic memory. Actually, it is a separate traumatic memory. It just got lost within a larger movie. Then continue through the aspects, bringing each to zero, until you can tell the whole story with no negative emotional impact whatsoever.

As stated, most traumatic memories only have one aspect. Others have 2 or 3. Rarely if there more than 3 but it could happen. If so, be persistent. Relief is not far away.

Questions and Answers

Q. What do I do if I have several traumatic memories?

Address them one at a time. Take your most intense memory first and bring it to zero before going on to the next one. Follow this pattern until all of your traumatic memories are neutralized. In the process of putting your traumatic memories “in the bag” you will likely feel a freedom that may border on euphoria. It is an incredible gift to unload useless baggage like this.

Some people (like war veterans) have hundreds of traumatic memories. If you are among them, you can expect the generalization effect to work for you. For example, if you have one hundred traumatic memories, you probably only need to address 10 or 15 of them. After that, you are likely to have difficulty getting any emotional intensity over the remaining ones. The generalization effect will have neutralized them.

Q. Doesn’t the rapid elimination of emotional problems “rob” someone of the importance of exploring the problem in depth and “getting to the bottom of it?”

Conventional methods presume that the cause for these “deep set” emotional problems resides in some recess of the mind which must somehow be discovered and unraveled. To do otherwise is to “cheat” the client and leave the problem unresolved. EFT ignores this idea totally. I have helped hundreds of people with traumatic memories…some of them extraordinarily intense. After using EFT, not one person….ever….has shown any interest in exploring it further or “getting to the bottom of it.” To them, it is completely resolved and they are gratefully relieved of its burden.

In my experience, EFT does get to the bottom of the issue and does so very powerfully. People’s attitudes change almost instantly about the memory. They talk about it differently. Their words shift from fear to understanding. Their demeanor and posture evidence a dramatically shifted disposition about the memory. They don’t even bring it up any more because it has been put in perspective. All this happens when EFT removes the offending “zzzzzt” from the energy system. That’s because the “zzzzzt” is the true cause.

From the EFT Training DVD Series- The EFT Course “6 Days at the Veteran Affairs”

Besides being one of the most memorable examples of emotional healing you will ever see, this video develops a major tool for delivering EFT for trauma relief-namely-the “Narrate The Movie Technique.”

This procedure asks the client to narrate a specific traumatic event as though it were a movie. Then, whenever the client begins to generate intensity over the specific happenings, the process is stopped and EFT is applied to the intense emotion. The technique is applied to three veterans for widely different traumatic incidences (war memories).

In addition to witnessing trauma relief for many intense memories (seeing decapitated bodies, having to shoot a 5 year old child, shooting and burying innocent citizens), you will also get insights into relief for a height phobia, social phobia, grief, headaches, insomnia and many other Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) related ailments.

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