Surely you must have experienced the tranquilizing effect of playing piano on a table, desk, or counter while waiting for something to happen.
Pianists, organists, guitarists - all musicians who are using their fingertips to produce sound – will agree that the power in their fingertips contains more than making music.
Personally, I always develop an urge to play piano while waiting for someone to arrive, or something to happen. When I am not home where I can play the piano, I will play on whatever surface is available. Normally it is the steering wheel of my car, or the desk in my office. So, years ago I came to the conclusion that my urge to play piano is not only because I am a born musician. It is my brain’s way of forcing me to control my patience, and all humans possess this survival skill.
The nerves in the tip of my fingers encourage the neurons in my brain to release a natural tranquilizing substance, was my final conclusion.
And so I decided today – after experiencing an extraordinarily long wait playing piano again - to do a little research.
Andrew Pruszynski and Roland Johansson
The researchers - Andrew Pruszynski and Roland Johansson of Umeå University in Sweden - discovered among other interesting facts that nerve endings signal the orientation of edges to cells in the spinal cord, which then relay these signals up to the brain. They suspect that the same nerve endings might perform other complex computations that are currently attributed to the brain, and they are now carrying out further experiments to see if this is the case. (Ref: Brainy-processing-at-your-fingertips)
Tapping
To my surprise some serious research has been done since 1980, when the positive results of tapping was accidentally discovered by the psychologist, Roger Callahan, and one of his patients who had suffered an extreme phobia of water. Callahan then developed a basic tapping sequence for anxiety which includes tapping on nine specific meridian points on the body. Ref: What-is-EFT-tapping?
According to independent.co.uk finger-tapping tests exist for assessment of neurological conditions such as Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer and schizophrenia.
Research done by Harvard Medical School
Research undertaken by Dr. Dawson Church
Alison
Her demonstration of tapping techniques can be found at www.alisonslist.com: New-improved-tapping-videos
Nick and Jessica Ortner
They claim that tapping provides relief from chronic pain, emotional problems, disorders, addictions, phobias, post-traumatic stress disorder, and physical diseases.
The alleged that tapping has been in practice in Eastern medicine for over 5,000 years. Like acupuncture and acupressure, it is a set of techniques which utilize the body’s energy meridian points. A person can stimulate these meridian points by tapping on them with their fingertips.
Conclusion
From now on I will be tapping while watching, hearing and reading the news of the day, and other depressing reports. (Ref: How-does-one-walk-away-from-reality)