Healing Touch is a gentle, biofield (energy field) therapy that facilitates a deep sense of calm and relaxation, thereby strengthening the body's own self-healing mechanisms. It is used in hospitals and health centers worldwide.
It is a holistic approach that promotes healing on all levels - physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. The goal of Healing Touch to restore balance to the energy system. Healing Touch has been shown to help:
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Improve a sense of well-being and enhance the quality of life
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Relieve stress and anxiety and enhance one's ability to cope with life's challenges
Healing Touch is accepted, validated and utilized in hospitals, hospice, long-term care, integrative health centers, private practices, and clinics. It is endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Association.
What Happens During a Session?
The treatment is typically administered while the client lies on a massage table. You will remain fully clothed during the session. With your permission, the practitioner uses his/her hands to assess your biofield and proceeds to clear and balance it as needed using either off body touch (near body but no direct contact) or a gentle (still) touch over various areas of the body.
Occasionally, a person may experience an acceleration of the healing process and his/her symptoms may intensify for a brief time. When this happens, the recovery period of the illness is usually shortened.
Your first session may take 90 minutes. It will begin with a comprehensive health assessment and the setting of goals and intentions for the healing.
Subsequent sessions will last up to 60 minutes, including discussion and feedback.
How Many Sessions Should I Have?
The number of sessions depends on your specific goals and objectives. When dealing with long-standing issues, 3-4 sessions may be a good place to start. However, it's ok to come in for just one session.
What Will I Feel?
People experience a variety of responses to Healing Touch. Some feel nothing at all. Others describe sensations of moving energy, deep relaxation, feelings of being supported and nurtured, or visions of images and colors. In virtually all cases, the response is positive.
Do I Have to "Believe" in It for the Treatment to Work?
Positive intention and openness to receiving positive results is always helpful, even in mainstream medical treatments. However, you don't need to believe in anything in particular for Healing Touch to have beneficial effects.
What are Additional Benefits of Healing Touch?
Additional benefits of Healing Touch include:
- NON INVASIVE
- Healing Touch is done without the use of invasive procedures such as injections, inserting tubes, medication or surgery.
- EFFECTIVE
- Research has shown that Healing Touch facilitates the relaxation response and enhances the healing process.
- NON TOXIC
- Medications can cause side effects and must be monitored. Healing Touch restores balance and harmony to our natural biofield without the use of pharmaceuticals.
- ECONOMICAL
- Healing touch does not require the use of equipment or substances and can be done in any setting. An open heart, a set of hands and a willing spirit is all that is needed.
