What is Healing Touch ?

I am frequently asked what "Healing Touch" energywork is.  So here's a basic explanation but the best way to understand its implications is to receive it!

Healing Touch is a popular complementary therapy used in many hospital settings throughout the globe and professional offices.  It supports the body's natural healing process.  This gentle non-invasive therapy helps restore balanace within the body's energy system, providing an optimum environment to heal.  Practitioners have successfully met requirements, including completion of a multi-level training program that typically involves three years of coursework and mentorship. My coursework has continued over 25 years.

Research suggests a number of health benefits, from reduction of pain and anxiety to enhanced immune function make Healing Touch a valuable complement to traditional medical and clinical interventions.  Anxiety and pain cause increases in hormones and metabolic responses which inhibit the immune system and increase oxygen consumption, cardiac output and blood pressure, all of which can have a detrimental impact on recovery of an illness.  By increasing the relaxation and a sense of well-being and decreasing anxiety and pain, Healing Touch helps promote a positive outcome for many imbalances.

Ongoing studies indicate Healing Touch's helpfulness in speeding tissue and wound healing, alleviating depression, and reducing side effects from cancer treatments.  Additional benefits include:

-incerases well-being - reduces pain - promotes relaxation - eliminates anxiety - lowers blood pressure - enhances immune function - supports the body's natural healing process - promotes healing - depression - wound healing - mental clarity

Healing Touch practitioners unblock energy using their hands.  The practitioner uses light hand movements on or over a person's body to look for symmetry, balance and flow.  Heat, cold or heaviness often indicate blockages or imbalances and practitioners, again, work their hands to rebalance the energy field and enhance their ability to heal.  A session can take place with full clothing and in almost any position - sitting or lying - that is most comfortable.  Some people report feeling tingling, warmth or pulsation.  Most become deeply relaxed and describe an increased sense of well-being after a treatment.  Healing Touch supports the body's natural healing process. 

This is one intervention that I use in my practice which I can incorporate with other modalities, as needed.  Again, this is an explanation of the work from the mental process, however each person's body is unique and the gift is in experiencing it personally.  Over 25 years, I have experienced many miracle stories.