What's the meaning of "tapping" in the sentence?

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By simply tapping near the end points of your energy meridians, you can experience some profound changes in your emotional and physical health.

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@kkfengdao,

Sounds like acupuncture. You might need to refer to the use of "tapping" in that specific context. It either means "knocking" or it means "piercing" (like a rubber tree is tapped for latex),

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It is a term used in a kind of new-age mystical "medicine" or hocus-pocus treatment if you like. It is called "Meridian Tapping". The idea is you tap and say magic words and your pain goes away. In the picture below the hand on the left of the picture is tapping, with three fingers, the hand on the right.

http://www.mttassoc.com/images/basics_pic7.jpg

Or if you have a headache... The lady is tapping seven times saying at the same time, "Even though I have this splitting headache on the right side of my head, I deeply and completely love and accept myself."

http://www.mttassoc.com/images/basics_pic8.jpg

You get the idea.

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@kkfengdao,

Fresco is right. Tapping could also mean drawing or using the energy the Meridian energy. Rubber trees are tapped means the sap of the rubber tree is taken out and saved.

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simply tapping

I think it is fairly clear that "tapping" here means "lightly striking with the fingers"

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@contrex,

I did not exclude it. But the Meridian line is associated with acupunture and usually a needle is used to tap into the energy.

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@talk72000,

talk72000 wrote:

I did not exclude it. But the Meridian line is associated with acupunture and usually a needle is used to tap into the energy.

Can you "simply tap" with a needle?

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@contrex,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2a4k9eDw4Q&feature=player_embedded#!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture_point

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There you go - she tapped her hand with 3 fingers of the other one. I must say this looks like a lot of baloney to me, but that's just my opinion.

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@contrex,

These were derived from battles. There were many battles in China so they noticed that places that were pierced or wounded had some healing or or medical effect in other parts of the body.

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Acupuncture's origins in China are uncertain. One explanation is that some soldiers wounded in battle by arrows were believed to have been cured of chronic afflictions that were otherwise untreated,[3] and there are variations on this idea.[4] In China, the practice of acupuncture can perhaps be traced as far back as the Stone Age, with the Bian shi, or sharpened stones.[5] In 1963 a bian stone was found in Duolun County, Inner Mongolia, China pushing the origins of acupuncture into the Neolithic age.[6] Hieroglyphs and pictographs have been found dating from the Shang Dynasty (1600-1100 BCE) which suggest that acupuncture was practiced along with moxibustion.[7]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture

You are free to believe what you want. No one asked about your beliefs except the meaning of the phrases.

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@talk72000,

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You are free to believe what you want. No one asked about your beliefs except the meaning of the phrases.

contrex answered the question, whereas your fox appears to be following its own scent

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