Kaiser Permanente's Center for Health Research has received a $2.1 million grant from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine to study the effectiveness of TAT.
"The Tapas Acupressure Technique did show superiority in helping people maintain weight loss in a pilot study involving 90 participants," says Charles Elder, MD, principal investigator and an internal medicine physician at Kaiser Permanente Northwest. Click here to read the complete article.
Read the study abstract here.
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Having More Joy This Season; My Personal Holiday Gift to You
Dear TAT Friend,
Hi! I hope you’re warm and cozy (if you’re somewhere that it’s cold outside) and enjoying springtime weather (if you’re down under). Outside, it’s sunny with blue skies and there’s one tree I see with orange and red leaves – I’m feeling cozy and thinking of you.
At this time of year, you may be feeling stressed from past stuff that’s happened with your family – the changing seasons, holiday decorations and music reminding you of things that were said that hurt your feelings. Now with the holidays coming, you’re not too happy about seeing some of the people who hurt you.
Simple, Gentle, Powerful; From Impossible to Possible
Dear TAT Friend,
Here’s a sweet email from a friend in Trinidad with a built-in tip for you:
myTAT; Ease in Pregnancy and Childbirth
Dear TAT Friend,
Hi! I hope you're have a wonderful summer or winter!
Were there webinars I gave that you wished you could've attended, but the time wasn't right or the price was too high? Did you think you might've liked to have gotten the benefit of the Better Sex webinar, but you'd rather not talk with people about sex? Has weight loss just become a focus and you'd sure like to make losing weight easier for yourself now...but there's no teleseminar scheduled?
I'm so happy to tell you that we now have something just for you! It's myTAT - a part of our website where you can create your own streaming audio and video library. You're able to instantly participate in streaming video recordings, watch workshops and listen to audio recordings. And, at the myTAT homepage, you'll see two videos. The one on top is a demonstration with Samo, who had fears of success. However good you feel now, you'll feel better after you watch this video. I loved what happened -- it contains some of the sweetest moments in the land of TAT ever captured on film. The second video is with John - you'll see how we did TAT for his chronic back pain and an interview with him months later, letting me know how he was doing. They're there for you now - just click here to see them. Plus there are a couple of little surprises on the myTAT homepage.
Do you have chronic pain, illness, or any health challenge? Are you afraid that you'll end up with the health problems your parents had? Was the moment you received your diagnosis shocking? Tired and frustrated listening to well-meaning friends and relatives bossing you around about what medical treatments you should and shouldn't do? Afraid of doctors and medical procedures and feel unable to control your medical decisions?
TAT for Better Sex; Dizziness With TAT?; TAT Helps Student Succeed
Dear Friends,
It’s been awhile since I’ve written. It’s good to be home and back in touch.
Does having a happier intimate relationship with better sex sound great to you? Yes? Okay then! I have a great new webinar just for you. Don’t worry - you don’t actually have to say anything personal or have anyone see you via webcam for this to work.
We’ll do TAT to clear up limiting beliefs, negativity and past incidents involving parents, family, friends, society, media, religion, spirituality and everywhere else. Check out the subjects in our 9-session series:
TAT for Physical Conditions; The Blessings of a Car Accident; Free Booklet in Danish
Dear Friends,
WooHoo!! I’m so excited and happy to tell you that you can now get our TAT for Physical Conditions video. The information on how to use TAT to help with physical conditions came from my dealing with the condition of cancer for about a year. I had stage 3 breast cancer and the very first time I did TAT about it, inflammation I’d had for over half a year left and never came back.
I probably did TAT a couple of hundred times over the course of a year, and at the end of it, the cancer was gone and my doctor said she’d never seen anything like it and that I should be written up in medical books.
A New Year's Gift: Turning Whining and Complaining into Emotional Gold; Just a Few Spots Left
Dear Lovely Friend,
Happy New Year!
A couple of weeks ago, something was bugging me and I just felt like whining and complaining about it. Usually, I try not to whine or complain because I never see any good coming out of it…until that day. It dawned on me that I could whine and complain with all the gusto I wanted, write down my unedited expressions and then (as if you hadn’t guessed) do TAT about the whole bundle. So that’s what I did. Oh man, that was so liberating: I no longer resonated or identified with any of it and felt so free free free. All of that nasty griping turned into emotional and spiritual gold. And that’s my New Year’s gift to you: unlimited piles of inner gold transformed from the worst thoughts and feelings.
Just make a list of all your complaints and download the free How to Do TAT booklet. As you do the TAT Steps, the word “this” in each statement will refer to your whole list. (We call this “making a bundle” or “throwing everything into the pot”.)
For Step One, use this statement instead:
TAT and Combat Stress
Dear Friends,
Harold McRae, a TAT Trainer in Columbus, GA, has been working with veterans and active military personnel for over 30 years. Several years ago, he began including TAT in his work and has seen great results. He was recently asked to present information on TAT at a booth at Fort Benning’s Warrior Transition Unit’s open house, and a lot of interested folks came by.
Harold, along with a retired colonel and an active tank commander, made a short video on TAT to show at the open house. Harold explains some of the basics about TAT. Biff (the retired colonel) and Mario (the active tank commander) talk about what they’ve experienced from using TAT. I found the video very moving. To watch part 1, just click on the image below.
Lasting Weight Loss; Physical Conditions; TAT for the Good of All
Dear Friends,
Sitting in my living room, it’s hard to believe that it’s already been a month since the Symposium. What a great time we had – laughing, connecting, and sharing the power of group healings with TAT.
Several of the people who were at the Symposium joined me the following week for my teleseminar on Regaining Your Innocent Heart. We had such a good time and everyone reported getting great benefit from it. Just click here to hear what they had to say.
I’m very excited to tell you about two teleseminars I’m giving in January so you can have your own experience.
Regaining Your Innocent Heart Teleseminar, TAT Card Deck
Dear Friends,
Are you so busy dealing with the details that you’ve lost sight of your goals? Do you find that sometimes your heart’s desires are clouded?
It happens to me and lots of people I know – getting involved in the events of the moment, we lose the deep connection with our heart and our most meaningful goals for ourselves. Sometimes, it’s hard to slow down enough to reflect on what we really want. So, we’ve come up with some fun and easy ways for us to do that.
To enhance your manifestation of your heart’s blueprint for happiness, consider:
Oprah Show on PTSD; Examples from the Card Deck
Dear Friends,
I hope you’re happy and enjoying your day.
When things come into my life in three’s, I take note and usually take action. I feel that whatever it is, I need to pay attention right now. Sometimes, it takes a little bit of figuring out…wondering how it applies to my life and what I should do about it.
In the last week, double that many instances happened in regards to one thing. In fact, the exact instruction has been spelled out (nothing to figure out): “Tapas, get in touch with Oprah now because she’s concerned about helping soldiers with PTSD and is going to do a show on it.” Several people who wrote me told me they’d already written Oprah about TAT and having me on her show. I’ve now written to her, too.
