Tapas Acupressure Technique

Tapas Acupressure Technique
Alternative medicine
ClaimsApplying pressure to meridian points on the body, derived from acupuncture, can release energy blockages that cause negative emotions.
Related fieldsacupuncture, acupressure
Year proposed1993
Original proponentsTapas Fleming
See alsoThought Field Therapy, Emotional Freedom Techniques

Tapas Acupressure Technique (or TAT) is an alternative medicine therapy that claims to clear negative emotions and past traumas. Though the full technique was invented in 1993 by Tapas Fleming, TAT incorporates elements of and builds on other acupressure techniques. TAT is classified as energy therapies as TAT claims to employ Qi (chi). This is the “energy” that has historically been believed to flow through the body in Asian medicine. There is no scientific proof that qi exists. However this claim of qi flow is not to be confused with putative energy for which no scientific basis has been found and no biophysical means of action determined.[1][2] TAT shows many characteristics consistent with pseudoscience.[2]

  1. ^ The 'National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (October 13, 2006). "Energy Medicine Overview".
  2. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Devilly was invoked but never defined (see the help page).