Acupressure is being used to promote emotional health:

"How, then, does tapping on acupressure points help to overcome certain emotions?

Acupressure is similar to the practice of acupuncture, which is several thousand years old and began in the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean cultures. Healers developed an awareness of certain locations in the body during meditation and by trial and error. These treatment points were handed down within families and it was observed that stimulation of these points by needles, heat, and pressure produced healing effects.

Chris Jarmey, founder and director of the European Shiatsu School, explains that Eastern medicine takes the view that diseases can be caused by internal issues (the emotions), external issues (the weather), and other problems, such as poisons, diet, and trauma.

"The most fundamental concept of Oriental medicine is that your body, mind, and spirit are all interdependent," Jarmey says. He adds that Eastern doctors do not see a physical ailment in isolation, but rather as a reflection of disharmony within a person's whole being."