Therapeutic Touch is an energy medicine therapy that uses essential energy to promote balance.One thing that life guarantees is change. We are becoming more aware of our environment and life as we know it. With this comes a reexamining of nature itself and a compassionate understanding of each other. When change comes along it brings with it the opportunity for growth. Therapeutic Touch is becoming more and more recognized as a proven therapy.
This change has promoted reevaluating the ancient techniques to alleviate and release both physical and emotional afflictions in ourselves and others. This has brought about a reinstatement of the credibility and acceptance of energy healing.
Therapeutic Touch is one of these healing techniques. Therapeutic Touch is a non-invasive, holistic approach to healing with the intent of enabling people to re-pattern energy toward wholeness and balance. Therapeutic Touch enhances the quality of nurturing care from birth to death. Therapeutic Touch elicits the relaxation response, reduces pain, accelerates healing, and decreases response to stress. Therapeutic Touch is also beneficial to animals and plants.
Therapeutic Touch was developed in the early 1970's by Dolores Krieger, PhD., R.N. who at the time was a Professor of Nursing at New York University. Along with her mentor, Dora Kunz, who was a natural healer, they developed a healing technique that could be taught. Krieger taught Therapeutic Touch as an extension of professional nursing care called, The Frontiers of Nursing, to her students. Today there are more than 18 PhD. Theses on Therapeutic Touch and 22 Post-Doctoral Therapeutic Touch Research Projects.
Around this time, I was beginning to evaluate my life and making changes. I began to understand that we lived in a world restricted by our beliefs. These beliefs made life comfortable and had no requirements to be accurate. They became facts which were passed down generation to generation. I had actually become caught in the limits of my own belief system. When I began to view things differently my values began to change. I now know that most of those beliefs were outdated and without meaning. Thus my healing journey and my book, How To Achieve A Fuller Life.
How To Achieve A Fuller Life
We are on a significant threshold that reaches across the sciences. Where the Newtonian theory of the universe once was, we are replacing it with the Einsteinian paradigm of a complex, interconnected, energetic-field-like universe. We are seeing the impact of all systems and how they interact with each other. We are an indispensable part of these systems and of the whole.
Therapeutic Touch has a basic assumption of wholeness and interconnectedness. Therapeutic Touch works. Therapeutic Touch is being used all over our world. The nurturing aspect of our being has been reinstated and is of value. This gift of knowing Therapeutic Touch has granted us a way to effectively offer the loving, kindhearted part of ourself to the people we care about.
Therapeutic Touch is instantly available. "Have hands will travel!" Everyone needs a helping hand. No matter where you are you can help. In our neighbourhoods, at home, at school, at work, at the sports game or wherever you find yourself, Therapeutic Touch is there along with you.
With our population aging, Therapeutic Touch permits us to relieve anxiety and pain as it promotes a relaxation response. It is especially useful in hospice situations.
Therapeutic Touch can be learned by anyone. Volunteers, family members, professional staff, and children (yes, children!) It is empowering because Therapeutic Touch gives us an effective way to help.
INTERESTED IN LEARNING MORE?
Therapeutic Touch Classes are conducted by The Academy of Energy Medicine on a regular basis. To register:
I Am Interested in Therapeutic Touch Classes
If your community/organization wishes to sponsor a class I will travel there.
INTERESTED IN HAVING A TREATMENT?
Please call 477-1757 to make an appointment.
