What is Healing Touch?
Healing Touch is a type of complementary healing using hands-on and energy-based techniques to balance and align the human energy field. Body, mind, emotion and spirit are touched through this therapeutic process, and each individual is empowered to participate fully in his or her healing journey.
How Does Healing Occur?
All healing is basically self-healing. A physician can set two bone fragments in place, but the body itself finally knits the bones together and heals the split; the physician simply directs and facilitates the process. Healing Touch (HT) is a different and often complementary mode of facilitating the healing process, but functions from an energy perspective. The Healing Touch Practitioner re-aligns the energy flow, reactivating the mind/body/spirit connection to eliminate blockages to self-healing.
Who Can Benefit?
Because HT influences the whole person on
all levels, it is appropriate for everyone and
can take place in any setting including:
Hospitals, Delivery Rooms
Healing Centers, Hospices
Accident Scenes, Homes, Schools
Healing Touch in Hospitals and Medical Schools
Did you know?
Hands-on touch modalities are used by more than 30,000 nurses in hospitals each year, and the procedures are documented as legitimate medical techniques.
Teams of medical doctors and nurses combine medical skills WITH hands-on and energy techniques in MOST major cities of the United States.
The world's first Touch Research institute was founded at the University of Miami's Medical School to further explore and document the benefits of touch therapy.
Documented studies have already shown that with hands-on healing:
- Surgical wounds heal faster
- Burns heal significantly faster
- Circulation and breathing improve after surgery
- Premature infants have enhanced growth rate
In 1995, 41% of the population
of the USA used one or more of the
alternative healing methods to either
complement or substitute for
traditional medical techniques.