What is Healing Touch? Healing Touch is a philosophy, a way of caring, a holistic approach and a sacred healing art. Healing Touch is an energy based therapeutic approach to healing. It uses a collection of energy based treatment methods to assess and treat the human energy system, thus affecting physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health and healing. Healing Touch practitioners consciously use their hands in a heart-centered and intentional way to assess, treat and evaluate the energy system to support, facilitate and assist the client to self heal.
What is the Definition of Healing Touch? Healing Touch is a biofield therapy that is an energy-based approach to health and healing. It uses touch to influence the human energy system, specifically the energy field that surrounds the body, and the energy centers that control the energy flow from the energy field to the physical body. These non-invasive methods utilize the hands to clear, energize, and balance the human and environmental energy fields thus affecting physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and healing. It is based on a heart-centered caring relationship in which the practitioner and client come together energetically to facilitate the client's health and healing.
What is the Goal for Healing Touch?
The goal in Healing Touch is to restore harmony and balance in the energy system placing the client in a position to self-heal. Healing Touch complements conventional health care and is used in collaboration with other approaches to health and healing.
What Are Some Specific Uses of Healing Touch? Anecdotal and research evidence supports the use of Healing Touch in the following:
Facilitate wound healing
Reduce pain
Decrease anxiety, tension and stress
Prevention of illness
Enhancement of spiritual development
Preparation for and recovery from medical treatments, surgeries and procedures
Management and decrease of side effects from medical treatment
Cancer supportive care
Support for the dying process
Healing Touch may be used with individuals of all ages and stages of health/illness. HT can produce profound changes in one's physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health. Balancing and clearing the energy system, through HT, places the person in a condition to self heal or to ease the transition from the physical body. Healing Touch is used in many more ways than those listed above. For more information please visit Healing Touch International and Healing Touch Program
How Can Healing Touch Benefit You?
Healing Touch research suggests that there are many benefits. Individual experiences will vary.
Reducing stress
Calming anxiety, depression
Decreasing pain
Reducing pain from headaches and migraines
Strengthen the immune system
Enhancing recovery from surgery
Complementing care for neck and back problems
Deepening spiritual connection
Supporting cancer care
Creating a sense of well-being
Easing acute and chronic conditions
Where is Healing Touch Used?
Healing Touch is used in a wide variety of settings including hospitals, long-term care facilities, private practices, hospices, and spas. Janet Mentgen, RN, founded Healing Touch in 1989 as a continuing education program for nurses, other health care professionals and laypersons. Today Healing Touch has spread internationally and is taught in universities, medical and nursing schools, and other settings internationally.
Disclaimer: Please note that anything in this website is not to be construed or to suggest diagnosis, prognosis, evaluation, treatment, description, management or remedy of illness, ailment, or disease. The ideas and suggestions identified on this site are not intended in any way as a substitute for qualified medical advice. Please note that I am a homeopathic consultant and energy therapies practitioner and not a licensed medical professional. This information is for educational purposes. All testimonials are based on the personal use of these products and/or services and the benefits they received.
