Dear TAT Friends,

Just home from the ACEP (Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology) Conference. It was lots of fun. These are a warm, lively group of people from various professions worldwide who are sharing healing approaches and working toward the mainstream acceptance of these alternative approaches to health. To learn more, check out energypsych.org , the ACEP website. There were lots of interesting speakers and you can get copies of the conference talks on DVD at the website.

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Our TAT for Better Sex webinar will be here soon. Someone asked if they can get a discount for their partner to join them in the webinar and we thought that sounded like a great idea. If you’d like to have your partner or spouse join in, just write to Customer Service after you register and let them know you’d like the coupon code for your partner to register, too. Julie or Teri (our friendly Customer Service folks) will be happy to help you with that.

Just picture how nice it would feel to be with someone you love and not have past, unresolved emotions and beliefs showing up. Imagine being with the person you love and feeling close and happy in the moment, with no mind junk from past relationships chattering at you, distracting you from enjoying the precious moment you’re in. That’s the direction of our upcoming webinar series.

Have thoughts like any of these?:

• • Great relationships might happen for other people, but it could never happen for me.
  • I’ve tried and I don’t have the heart to try again.
  • A webinar can’t possibly make any difference for me.
  • I wouldn’t even know where to begin - there’s so much old stuff.
  • I’d be too embarrassed or self-conscious to participate.

Try doing the TAT Pose and putting your attention on all those thoughts - and any others that come up for you - for about a minute. Then do the Pose again for about a minute as you put your attention on:

• • It’s possible that I could have a wonderful intimate relationship and great sex.
  • It’s possible I could have the heart to try again.
  • A webinar could make a difference for me.
  • It would be easy to begin clearing up old stuff.
  • I could participate and only share what I want to.
  • …plus anything else you’d like to include

Just see what happens. I think you’ll be happy with the possibilities that open up. Even if you don’t join us for the webinar, you’ll have a great start toward a happier intimate life.

In this webinar, you’ll learn how you can use TAT to have more joy and fulfillment in intimate relationships and better sex. And remember, you don’t have to share anything personal with anyone in the class for it to work (I love that about TAT!). To join the webinar, just click here .

Just two days ago, one of my best long-time friends told me that I’m in one of only two relationships she knows where the people are really happy together. I’d like to share what I can with you about how to be in a really happy intimate relationship. That’s part of what we’ll be doing in the webinar. Even if you’re not in a close relationship right now, this webinar can easily help clear the way for that kind of relationship to manifest in your life. In fact…I have a new way of pumping up the rich, full feeling of the life you want being present right now. We’ll do that special new "manifestation magic" every time we get together in our webinars. I’d love all my friends to be extremely happy and fulfilled - and because you’re reading this, I consider you one of my friends. To join me in the webinar, just click here .

I’m very pleased to introduce you to our newest TAT Professionals. These individuals have attended workshops, done sessions on themselves, others, and with a Buddy, were observed leading TAT sessions by a TAT Trainer, and have discussed the Essential Points for TAT Professionals with the Trainer mentoring them through the certification program. Their Trainers have recommended them for certification.

Most of our Professionals are happy to work with you by phone or Skype, so I welcome you to look up our Professionals and see if there’s someone you’d like to work with, no matter where they live.

New Professionals, you have my warm best wishes, hearty congratulations and welcome to our group of wonderful TAT Professionals! Please join me in sending our best wishes to:

	Mary Cahill-McGrath
	Myriam Halimi
	Kristin Holthuis
	Else Baden-Jensen
	May Johnstone
	Christine Metawati
	Cindy Patten
	Valerie Piotrowski
	Beth Rontal
	Maya Safarti
	Carol Suter
	Lois Weber

Just click on each Professional’s name to read more about them.

Here is a story from Kristin Holthuis, one of our newest Professionals:

One of my very first TAT sessions was working with a lady on her anger and grief related to not having seen her son for about ten years. He was taken abroad when he was about 18 years old by a close family member, and she hadn’t heard anything from him ever since. She had felt like a bad mother (what a kind of mother is left by her child, without a word even after for 10 years?) and didn’t want to see the part of her family who had contributed to her son leaving her, and she didn’t want to see them ever again.

During the session a lot of different emotions passed by (anger, resentment, shame, grief), and she was even ready to forgive her family and her son at the end, feeling so much more peaceful; her face was glowing!

And… I was so impressed when I saw her again several weeks later, when she almost jumped on me with a big hug, telling that 3 days after the session her son had called her, wanting to visit her, asking for forgiveness and wanting to catch up with her again.

I cannot imagine that the session we did together wouldn’t have had anything to do with it…

TAT is still my favorite tool when dealing with complex situations where a lot of different emotions and levels are part of the issue!

And thanks to you all for inspiring me by sharing your experiences! Blessings to all of you!

Kristin

TAT stories give my heart so much happiness. Thanks for sharing this, Kristin!

If you’d like to share your TAT story or stories, I’d love to hear them and pass them along. Just click here to send your story to me.

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On this Thursday, June 10 at 1:00pm PDT, I’ll lead us in a TAT teleconference for the benefit of our planet - animals, plants, people and Mother Earth Herself related to the oil spill. It’s free and will last about 30 minutes. To join in on the call, click here .

Love and warm wishes,
Tapas

P.S. To register for the upcoming webinars, just click on the title(s) you’re interested in:

• Coming to Peace with Someone Who Has Died or Moved On — June 10
• Closing Up a Home and Moving On — June 21
• Drenched in Love - Opening the Gates to Giving and Receiving Love — June 28
• TAT for Better S ex — July 19, 20, 21, 22, 26, 27, 28, 29 and August 2

Dear Friends,

Yesterday, looking alternately out the window (gorgeous view across half a mile of trees and homes to the blue Pacific) and at my computer as I worked, I heard two creaks in the floor behind me. I turned to look. There was nothing there. I suspected it might be my mom walking through the living room. (In case you haven’t read newsletters from earlier this year, my mom died at the end of January. You can read more here .)

Later in the afternoon, I was chatting on the phone and heard those same creaks. "Maybe it was from the attic", I mused to myself…we’d heard some critters up there recently. But then I realized that I wouldn’t be hearing all the way to downstairs from the attic and besides, it was the floorboards I heard. Our family has lived in this house since 1963 and I have never heard squeaking floorboards when someone wasn’t walking on them.

In the evening while tending to some toast in the toaster, I said, "Mom???" The hairs on the back of my neck stood up. Yep, Mom. Hmmm…I’d felt her free and happy after she’d died and looking like a 14-year-old. I wondered what this was about.

Over breakfast this morning, I felt my hairs standing up all over my body while I was in the kitchen (her kitchen!). "Mom, I’m gonna do some TAT on your behalf. Here, you sit here (I pulled her usual chair out from the table) and I’ll sit here (where I used to sit kitty-corner from her, just to her right). As I held the Pose on myself, the conversation went like this:

Me: Do you have a sense of your eternal self? (That word "eternal" just seemed to cause confusion so I thought, "Forget that".) Do you know you’re dead?

Mom (as old lady): Shakes her head "No".

Me: Uh, do you notice that you can see now? (I’m just assuming this. This is significant because she was legally blind before she died and could hardly see anything. I’m thinking that maybe pointing out a difference between what was and what is now would give her a chance to notice that things have changed.)

Mom: Yes .

Me: (Beginning to form a thought like, "Have there been lapses in time where you find yourself somewhere and don’t know how you got there?" Then I realize that this wouldn’t help much because her mental state was like that before she died anyway. So I dropped that approach.) I’m planning on selling the house and it wouldn’t be good if you stuck around. People would think you’re a ghost. Because you are.

Mom: (laughs)

Me: What are you doing here?

Mom: I’m afraid. I’m afraid to leave you. (She was out of her chair and hanging onto me at this point. I had looked after her closely for many years before she died and, in general, she looked to me for protection.)

Me: (I’m wondering to myself if I’m just making all this up because I’m afraid to let go of her. I don’t know what’s really going on here.) I’m gonna ask for help. Angels and good helper beings, will you please help my mom out here? Mom, would you please ask for help, even if you don’t know who the helpers are in advance? That’s what I’m doing. And let’s make the intention that we’ll always be connected in our hearts and we’ll always be in touch. (I saw the love glowing in both our hearts.) Something didn’t feel like it was clicking, so I asked Amma, who’s known as the Hugging Saint, to please help us out. I love Amma. (Immediately, I saw Amma sort of like floating above the table in our kitchen right in front of my mom.) Mom, remember how you said you wished you could have seen Amma and looked into her eyes? Well, you can now. (I saw my mom and Amma look into each others’ eyes. I saw my mom feel safe and loved as they embraced. I burst into tears. Then the three of us hugged. The whole experience felt like a very real dream that dissolved into love and happiness. All the concerns about my mom were gone.)

I got up from the table and pulled out two tissues from the Kleenex box for myself and said out loud, Mom, this is one time you won’t be needing your two tissues! (She always wanted two tissues at a time.) I wiped my eyes, blew my nose and ate my then over-cooked breakfast.

When I think of my mom right now, I have a sense of infinite creative potential, and that’s all. When I think, "Mom?" with a wish to be in touch, I feel my heart glow with love.

In order to get continuing education units (CEUs) for the Kauai workshop for therapists and acupuncturists, we’ve renamed the workshop and rewritten the description. Using TAT along with inner meditative questions like "Who am I? " and "What is the purpose of my life? " will be central to our work along with Seven Keys to Simple Presence (see our store for a complete description of what we’ll be doing together).

We can’t really be present if we don’t know who we are. We’ve now simply highlighted the professional benefits from doing this workshop in our store description so that the licensing bodies can make sense of what we’re offering their professionals. I wanted to let you know about this description change before you read about it on the calendar or in the store and felt any concern about it. The focus of this get-together is on you having your own deep, spiritual experience.

Out of your own experience, some of the natural outcomes often include:

• You feel more like you than you ever have and communicate your authentic self easily.
• You don’t feel afraid of death because you are constantly aware that you are eternal and untouched by anything that happens in life.
• You don’t identify yourself or anyone else with problems or shortcomings.
• You’re mostly non-judgmental.
• You feel that the world is friendly to you.
• You feel happy and more and more alive and connected.

My experiences with this kind of work are my own sort of "gold standard". Knowing who I am, the purpose of life and what my own true nature really is, I can know what’s of real value to me in my life, how I want to be and what is deeply fulfilling. Happiness is almost always filling my days, and intimate, heart-to-heart connections are a constant in my life.

I’d like you to be extremely happy and fulfilled and I don’t know anything that compares to this type of retreat for establishing you in that consciousness in your day-to-day life. Besides…we’ll be in Kauai!

Would you love to share the most absolutely essential work we can do in one of the most gorgeous places on earth? We have a 25% discount good through March 29th. Register now for this savings.

My best wishes to you.

Love,
Tapas