Bone Tapping, Ancient Secret to Healthy Bones and Joints

By Ethan Indigo Smith

Contributing Writer for Wake Up World

Bone Tapping – a Healing Art

One of the simplest healing arts, a primal uncle of Tai Chi as I was taught, is called bone tapping. Bone tapping is about healing yourself using your own touch. The basic premise is that this practice sends vibrations father and deeper into the body, and the vibration eliminates tension and inflammation which lead to all sorts of distress and disease, allowing the body to self-correct according to its natural intelligence.

Grounding is so important as it keeps us connected to the source energy of our Earth mother. And because so few people do actually ground, I believe the bone tapping procedure is both an important grounding and healing tool.

It involves using any part of your hands and fists to hit yourself. Begin with your calves and shins, the harder the better, but keep it reasonable. You can throughout the series, and particularly as you begin tapping the abdomen, exhale out the taps. Breathe out the tension, do not tense up. Hit the sides of the calves, the backs and even knock on the shins and/or rub them downward. Hitting the back of the knees is said to stop varicose vein formation. Even though it’s called bone tapping, one primarily taps next to the bones. Continue up, including the thighs and legs all over. Proceed to the coccyx and the lower back, then the front equivalent and continue upwards tapping chest, back, shoulders, arms, neck, chin and head (as hard as it can take) all the way to the crown of our head. Then – and this is considered a moderate secret – end by tapping the softest bones of our body, the clavicles or collar bones. 

A Final Thought – Zero Gravity Tai Chi

My teacher and I talk about a lot of things, and we both recently shared an intuitive idea that had crossed both our minds for the very first time that very day. Our intuitively grasped (some would say ‘imagined’) idea relates to the healing art of Tai Chi and bone tapping. We had previously, long story short, contemplated whether you could do Tai Chi in zero gravity because you could never be grounded through your feet. At the very least, it would be entirely different form of Tai Chi. And then the conversation shifted. The next time we spoke, we both had taken an intuitive step forward in contemplating zero gravity.

One of the main problems for people in space is dealing with the ill effects of zero gravity. Muscle and bone density decreases drastically, and it seems that astronauts and cosmonauts alike have not found a way to deter this loss of bone and muscle density in zero gravity conditions.

The Russian martial art of Systema has some bone tapping ideas in it; it focuses mainly on controlling the six body levers (elbows, neck, knees, waist, ankles, and shoulders) through pressure point application and striking. As it is more in a martial than healing tradition, perhaps some cosmonauts have tried it. If not, we believe they should as bone tapping may deter bone density loss in space, just as it does on Earth.

While I strongly believe we should take care of Gaia rather than go playing in space, I do hope this helps someone, somewhere.

Editor’s note:

For more information on meditative practices and movements that can help you access and balance your energy, check out Ethan’s book Tibetan Fusion, available now on Amazon.

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• Open Letter to Barack Obama: a Call to End the Disastrous Nuclear Era
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• How to Enhance Intuition: Understanding the Four Forms of Awareness
• A Little Green Revolution: the Rainbow Warriors will Heal the Earth Mother
• Hate: The Ultimate Social Control Mechanism
• UK’s Proposed Ban on Esoteric Knowledge: Why Institutions Seek to Limit Access to Information
• Presence and Mindfulness: the Meditative Value of 108
• Is Nuclear Experimentation Fascism?
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• The Brotherhood of Man: a Tibetan Perspective
• Oligarchical Collectivism and the Four Steps to Learning Politics

About the author:

Author Ethan Indigo Smith was born on a farm in Maine and lived in Manhattan for a number of years before migrating west to Mendocino, California.

The events of September 11, 2001 inspired him to write his first book, The Complete Patriot’s Guide to Oligarchical Collectivism, an insightful exploration of history, philosophy and contemporary politics.

A unique blend of philosophy, politics, activism, spirituality, meditation and humour, Ethan’s more recent publications include:

• Tibetan Fusion a book of simple meditative practices and movements that can help you access and balance your energy
• The Little Green Book of Revolution an inspirational book based on ideas of peaceful revolution, historical activism and caring for the Earth like Native Americans
• The Matrix of Four, The Philosophy of the Duality of Polarity on the subject of the development of individual consciousness, and
• the controversial The Terraist Letters, a work that humorously contrasts the very serious issues of global nuclear experimentation promotion and global marijuana prohibition

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