Why Healing Touch

WHAT IS HEALING TOUCH?

Healing Touch is an energy therapy in which practitioners consciously use their hands in a heart-centered and intentional way to support and facilitate physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.

Healing Touch is a biofield (magnetic field around the body) therapy that is an energy-based approach to health and healing.

Healing Touch uses the gift of touch to influence the human energy system, specifically the energy field that surrounds the body, and the energy centers that control the flow from the energy field to the physical body.

These non-invasive techniques employ the hands to clear, energize, and balance the human and environmental energy fields, thus affecting physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. 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.

The goal of Healing Touch is to restore balance and harmonies in the energy system, placing the client in a position to self heal.

HEALING TOUCH IS RESEARCH-BASED

Current research and studies support the use of Healing Touch in a variety of ways.

Quantitative studies support the use of Healing Touch to:

Reduce anxiety, tension, and stress
Reduce fatigue
Reduce pain
Reduce hospital length of stay
Improve immune function in cancer patients
Ease effects of trauma and PTSD

Suggested Benefits of Healing Touch from Qualitative Research, Anecdotal Support, and Pilot Studies:

Facilitate wound healing
Assist in the preparation for, and recovery from, medical treatments, surgeries, and procedures
Support individuals and families through the dying process
Support individuals and families through chronic illnesses
Assist in management and treatment of side effects from medical treatments including the removal of toxins from the body
Support illness prevention and health promotion activities
Improve quality of sleep
Enhance sense of spiritual connection