Healing Touch

Healing Touch is a method of energy therapy that utilizes gentle touch to enhance a total balance of health encompassing mind, body, and spirit. Healing Touch uses one's own energy to affect healing. Clinicians touch the individual in order to stimulate the energy fields within the body. This technique can be used safely for adults and children. Many people have attested to quicker healing and shorter recovery times when this method of therapy is applied before and after medical procedures. Healing Touch was developed by Dora Kunz and Dolores Krieger. 

• Positive Effects of Healing Touch
• Healing Touch in the Medical Field
• Resources Related to Healing Touch

Positive Effects of Healing Touch

Healing Touch provides a comfortable and relaxing form of therapy. The nurturing touch is administered only to specific body parts but serves to stimulate the flow of energy throughout the body, resonating through the whole person, spiritually, mentally, and physically. This technique is non-invasive and is completely safe for people of all ages. It can be combined with other therapeutic methods and medicinal applications. Healing Touch has been known to reduce stress, decrease pain, create calm by relieving symptoms of depression and anxiety and to alleviate physical discomfort related to neck and back issues. It has also been reported to aid in patients suffering with the side effects of cancer treatment, and it can help those with chronic illness better manage and cope with their symptoms. Another by-product of healing touch is the deepened sense of connection to one’s spiritual self.

Healing Touch in the Medical Field

Healing touch has been applied across a wide variety of fields and is often administered in healthcare settings such as nursing homes, hospitals, private practices, surgical environments, holistic spas, and hospice institutions. This natural form of energetic healing has become recognized throughout the world as a valid form of effective therapy and is taught in medical schools and universities across the United States and in other countries. Individuals not associated with the medical field can learn the art of Healing Touch through classes offered privately by licensed clinicians and practitioners.

Resources Related to Healing Touch:

About.com

Healing Touch International

Harvard Health Publication

Medical News Today

Wikipedia's Page about Healing Touch