My work with people is primarily spiritually-oriented, but because it is energy-based, healing birth trauma and childhood abuse is a continual theme that arises because traumas seem to want to get cleared the most. Milder forms of these traumas usually heal spontaneously as they emerge during sessions, but for those with whom it "opens up a can of worms," TAT is always my intervention of choice.
A good example is someone who reported experiencing heaviness in her chest, anxiety and helplessness, a choking sensation and then she began spontaneously verbalizing "AUUURGH!" while she was in a generic spiritual healing and cleansing trance. She had no idea why she experienced this, but was pretty uncomfortable about it, and some of those feelings remained with her when the session finished.
I got a sense of a baby being born with the umbilical cord wrapped around its neck. So I had her work through the TAT for birth trauma. The emotional hangover disappeared, and the next session was a wonderful experience for her. But the neatest part was that she found herself speaking up for herself, "speaking my truth" for the first time in her life. Wow! We hadn't even identified this as an issue for her yet, and it was already healed!
This birth trauma phenomenon has presented itself often enough in my practice that now I just have my clients go to the website to learn TAT and then I guide them to do TAT for birth trauma for their first session. TAT remains my primary treatment for trauma of any kind and clearing away negative beliefs, and it works like a charm! What a blessing to be able to dissolve a profound event unconsciously influencing so many people nearly instantly! Thanks for letting me share this story!
Alfred Heath, TAT Professional and Trainer (click here for Alfred's contact and practice information)
During a TAT seminar, I closed my eyes and was back in Vietnam in the back
seat of a helicopter on a training flight. Several B-52's had dropped hundreds
of 500 pound bombs in the distance. I took a deep breath as I remembered
the helicopter slowly tilting back as it began to skid into a simulated
emergency landing with an engine failure, but this time we were very tilted
back. My knees were above my head, and the "stinger" - the tube that sticks
out the back of the helicopter to keep the tail rotor from
hitting the ground and that has never even touched the ground in my entire
two years of flying - was bumping along as if over plowed rows in a cornfield.
Then the tail rotor blades hit the ground and next the tail boom hit. When
the helicopter finally skidded to a stop, it was upside down, and I was face
down with my arms flung out in front of me. The frame of my seat pressing on
the back of my helmet forcing my face into the dirt and solidly pinning both
my arms and my face into the ground. I was trapped! Everyone else was dead
or unconscious. With the engine still running we were sure to burn or explode.
I was going to die. Eventually, another helicopter that had seen the crash
came to the rescue.
Whenever I remember this, my chest gets tight, my arms feel
tingly and heavy, my palms sweat, and if I am telling the story to someone, I
hear my voice change as my throat tightens, but as I did TAT, all of a sudden
I was aware that I had survived that crash! In the years following the crash
I had shared, cried, rebirthed, workshopped and catharted this into exhaustion,
but this level of awareness of the fact that I SURVIVED was much stronger than
any sense of survival I ever had before. It was the truth and I was suddenly
aware of something new: there was NO HELICOPTER on top of me. Even as I had that
thought, it seemed silly. Of course there wasn't a helicopter on top of me, but
I sat there amazed by my new awareness of that reality. For a brief
moment I saw the crash scene from above. Although it was just a flash, I noticed
that it looked different. It was lighter. I closed my eyes. It WAS lighter.
It had always been kind of dark in my memory, as if there were a giant shaded
plexiglass dome covering the site.
I then became aware that as I was thinking about the crash,
my chest, arms, throat and hands were relaxed. All I was having was a memory
of an event that had taken place over twenty-eight years ago. Nothing more. The
next thought I had was that I wanted the tension back. I had lived with it for
so long that it had seemed a part of me. I closed my eyes again, but it
wasn't there and I couldn't get it to come back, no matter how hard I focused
on the memory.
Dick Morrill, Air America, TAT Professional and Trainer (click here for Dick's contact and practice information)
My story is about a 19 years old girl who used to live on the 5th floor of an apartment building. At 11:30 at night, she tried to take something off of her outside clothesline. She leaned out too far and fell one floor down onto her neighbor's clothesline. She had her back against the building and her body got to be so stiff. All she could do was scream. The lady from that apartment got so scared that she closed the window... the girl screamed stronger and a man from the building across the way called the lady and told her that he could see the girl and she should open the window and pull her in. The lady did that and saved the girl.
The next morning the girl went home but she was in a bad condition: she was shaking, she couldn't talk.
Her mom called me and I came to her house. I was a new practitioner and with lots of prayers I started.
Step 1: We called all the story by the name "fall" and we did step 1 on "all the traumas I have out of this fall."
Step 2: "All have happened, it's over and I'm fine and safe now."
We did step 1 again with "the fall that led to these traumas".
Step 2: "It happened, I am safe and fine now."
After that we did more TAT Steps 1 and 2 alternately about all the thoughts and feelings she had up there at night and when we felt she is done we continued to all the other steps. It took us 25 minutes. I asked her how she is feeling and she smiled and hugged me.
The next day she came to me and said, "I had a big sleep and now I can talk about it." We did more work about her fear and a new look on her life: "I had a miracle - I got my life back". We worked about her new goals and before she went she said to me: "I feel like doing 2 things: learning TAT and going back to that apartment to see how high it is. "
Her mom told me that that girl did so many great changes in her life.
Sarit Avigad
For help healing traumas, we recommend you begin with the Workshop 2000 recording and the specialty DVD "Healing Traumas and Allergies", or take a workshop with Tapas or a certified TAT Trainer. For more individualized help, work with a certified TAT Professional in person or over the phone.
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