Oriental Bodywork: a group of methods, including acupressure massage and Jin Shin Acupressure, used to stimulate natural self-curative abilities. Its theory posits a spirit and bodily pathways of energy.

(See also: Oriental Bodywork, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

macroreflexology: Any form of reflexology that concerns reflex areas throughout the body. Acupressure and body acupuncture exemplify macroreflexology.

(See also: Macroreflexology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Metta Touch: a blend of techniques from acupressure, reflexology, shiatsu, Swedish massage, Thai Massage, and yoga. One of its aims is to bridge the connection between the practitioner, the patient, and the cosmic life force.

(See also: Metta Touch, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Thai Massage: Millennia-old, sacred form of bodywork that resembles shiatsu and is related to Nadi Sutra Kriya. It draws from acupressure, passive yoga therapy, and reflexology. Thai Massage makes recipients feel more balanced physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.

(See also: Thai Massage, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Thai Massage-Reflex Yoga with MettaTouch: powerful synthesis of acupressure massage, reflexology, and yoga. it stimulates meridians (energy lines), vitalizes bodies, and clears energy blocks that cause fatigue and illness. The Thai word metta means loving kindness.

(See also: Thai Massage-Reflex Yoga with MettaTouch, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Touch for Health (TFH): Form or variation of energy balancing developed by chiropractor John F. Thie, author of Touch for Health: A New Approach to Restoring Our Natural Energies (T.H. Enterprises). TFH is a combination of acupressure touch, applied kinesiology, and massage.

(See also: Touch for Health, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Ching Lo (meridian therapy): external stimulation of Qi (chi) and Blood in diverse ways, including acupressure, acupuncture, cupping, moxabustion, scraping, and application of acu-powder, electricity, herbs, or magnets.

(See also: Ching Lo, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

pointing therapy: Form of acupressure derived from Chinese martial arts (see Chinese Wushu). Pointing therapy involves manually: pointing (poking), pressing, pinching, patting, knocking, and pounding acupoints.

(See also: Pointing therapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Naturology: Religious science of health taught by the American Institute of Holistic Theology, a nonaccredited correspondence school in Youngstown, Ohio. Naturology is a theistic variation of naturopathy that includes acupressure, herbology, homeopathy, iridology, and Natural Hygiene.

(See also: Naturology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

multi incarnational recall and emotional body balancing: Mode of energy balancing developed by author Chris Griscom, founder of the Light Institute of Galisteo, in New Mexico. It uses techniques from Windows to the Sky acupressure to remove blockages and to facilitate recall of multi incarnations.

(See also: Multi incarnational recall and emotional body balancing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Hoshino Therapy (Hoshino Therapy Art): System of bodywork developed by Tomezo Hoshino, an acupuncture diplomate and onetime pedicurist who was born in 1910 in Atsugi, Japan. Hoshino Therapy includes a manual form of acupressure that uses 250 vital points.

(See also: Hoshino Therapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Zen-Touch (Zen-Touch body balancing, Zen-Touch therapy): Health balancing system developed by Seymour Koblin and promoted by the School of Healing Arts, in San Diego, California. It is a combination of: (a) Shiatsu Acupressure, and (b) way of life counseling, which includes recommendations concerning behavior, exercise, and nutrition.

(See also: Zen-Touch, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Zero Balancing (ZB, Core Zero Balancing): System of acupressure-like bodywork originated in the 1970s by osteopath and acupuncturist Fritz Smith, M.D. It integrates body energy with bodily structure. Its theory posits bone energy, chakras, and an energy body.

(See also: Zero Balancing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Psycho-Neuroaligning (PNA): System advanced by hypnotherapist and Kinesiologist Anthony Cimino, N.D., Ph.D.

Its basic procedures include acupressure, muscle testing (see above), neuro-communion, nutritional therapy, past life investigation, and reflexology.

(See also: Psycho-Neuroaligning, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

cymatic therapy (cymatic medicine): Form of vibrational bioenergetics medicine developed by Sir Peter Guy Manners, M.D., D.O., Ph.D., of England. It is an acupressure-like method wherein devices send beneficial sound through the skin. This sound reestablishes healthy resonance in unhealthy tissues. Cymatics theory posits acupuncture meridians and holds that life is sound and that every part of the body vibrates at a unique audible frequency.

(See also: Cymatic therapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

OMNI-FORCE: Modular mail-order program developed by Gerard V. Sunnen, a psychiatrist, hypnotist, and reputed world-renowned expert in Eastern medicine. The program involves self-hypnosis and acupressure. , it releases one's inner powers and enables users to recharge their energy and direct healing energy to any part of the body.

(See also: OMNI-FORCE, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Orthopractic: Holistic healing approach promoted by Anthony Cimino, N.D., Ph.D., founder of the Long Island Biotherapy Center, in Syosset, New York.

It embraces acupressure, Dianetics, hypnotherapy, muscle testing (see above), nutritional counseling, reflexology, and Neuro-Communication (Neuro-Communication Systems). Neuro-Communication, according to a Biotherapy Center leaflet, is a process discovered by Cimino that asserts to better the nervous system through the use of special words and body movement.

(See also: Orthopractic, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique (N.A.E.T.): An offshoot of applied kinesiology that was the subject of an article in a 1998 issue of Natural Health. Developed by Dr. Devi S. Nambudripad, N.A.E.T. is an energy modality that includes acupressure and chiropractic techniques. Its principle is that contact with adverse energy of exogenous substances causes energy blockages from which allergies result.

(See also: Nambudripad's Allergy Elimination Technique, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

hand-mediated energetic healing (HMEH, HMEH approaches, HMEH traditions, hand-mediated healing modalities): Group of healing methods characterized by the principle that the practitioner's hands are agents of the transfer or interchange of energy.

Hand-mediated energetic healing encompasses acupressure, external qigong (Qigong therapy), Healing Touch, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Polarity (Polarity Therapy), reflexology, Reiki, shiatsu massage, Therapeutic Touch, and Touch for Health.

(See also: Hand-mediated energetic healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

crystal healing (crystal therapeutics, crystal therapy, crystal work): Multiform use of crystals (especially quartz crystals) and gemstones to treat such conditions as blindness, bursitis, cancer, depression, forgetfulness, tension headaches, hemorrhages, indigestion, insomnia, Parkinson's disease, rheumatism, and thrombosis.

Its principle is that crystals draw light and color into the body's aura and thus raise its frequency and allow the emergence of lower frequency energies, which are healthful. Crystal healing sometimes is adjunctive to, or a form of: acupressure, aura balancing, chakra healing, color therapy, pendular diagnosis, prayer, and self-healing.

(See also: Crystal healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Healtheology: One of the fields of study offered by the American Institute of Holistic Theology, a correspondence school in Youngstown, Ohio. The institute defines Healtheology as a theological science of health, a concept that health and theology have a common ground.

Healtheology encompasses acupressure, angelic healing, aromatherapy, Ayurveda, breathwork, color therapy, crystal healing, herbalism, homeopathy, hypnosis, music therapy, polarity healing (polarity balancing), psychic healing, reflexology, shamanism, shiatsu, Therapeutic Prayer, transpersonal psychology, vibrational healing (vibrational medicine), and yoga. Its theory posits a soul with a threefold purpose: to experience, learn, and express itself. Practitioners are called Healtheologists.

(See also: Healtheology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

reflexology:

(a)           Variation of acupressure whose principle is that all bodily organs have corresponding external reflex points (on the scalp, ears, face, nose, tongue, neck, back, arms, wrists, hands, abdomen, legs, and feet), and that manipulating these points can enhance the flow of energy.

(b)           Foot Reflexology.

(c)            Zone therapy.

(d)           Macroreflexology and microreflexology.

(e)            A type of shiatsu that focuses on the hands and feet.

(See also: Reflexology, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)