intuitive touch healing: a form of channeling whose theory posits chakras, spiritual blockages, and reincarnation.

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

ONE LIGHT HEALING TOUCH

One Light Healing Touch focuses on clearing blockages and rebalancing the human energy field by using spiritual and energetic hands-on healing practices and techniques.

The application of these healing arts forms facilitates and increases our ambient energetic vibrations and awareness, strengthening the immune system and opening the client to her indwelling god or higher self.

As the higher self awareness becomes activated, an evolutionary healing journey begins, moving the client through clarity of understanding, health, spiritual autonomy, and ultimately, culminating in the fulfillment of her purpose of being: to heal herself and her fellow human beings and to find her place within the world.

(See also: ONE LIGHT HEALING TOUCH, Alternative Health, Massage, Bodywork, Body Mind and Soul)

Light Touch Energy Healing: Method that focuses on: balancing bodily energy, releasing cellular memory, and identifying energy patterns that limit happiness.

(See also: Light Touch Energy Healing, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

touch therapy (touch healing, touch therapies, the laying on of hands): The laying on of hands and variations thereof, including OMEGA, The Radiance Technique, and Reiki.

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

Therapeutic touch:

a healing modality that involves touching with the conscious intent to help or heal. The practitioner moves the hands through a recipient's energy field for the purpose of:

assessment and treatment of energy field imbalance.

(See also: Therapeutic touch, Alternative Medicine, Body Mind and Soul)

Therapeutic Touch: Therapeutic Touch, a specific method of healing touch developed by Dolores Krieger, is taught in many nursing colleges throughout the United States. Used for relaxation and reducing anxiety, Therapeutic Touch is based on the assumption that a human energy field extends slightly beyond the skin.

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

Therapeutic Touch: A specific method of healing touch developed by Dolores Krieger and practiced by registered nurses and others to relieve pain and stress. A TT practitioner attunes to the client’s energy field, finds weak or congested areas, and re-balances or refreshes them using touch techniques.

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

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)

BOWAN THERAPEUTIC TOUCH: Light touch used in certain sequences appears to release energy blockages. Probably based on the Chinese concept of CHI, Chapman’s reflexes and other healing techniques, this system is being shown to work although it is not yet fully understood.

(See also: BOWAN THERAPEUTIC TOUCH, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Therapeutic touch , Laying-on-of-hands, Reiki ,  :

Placing of the hands of the healer upon the person to be cured with the intent of spiritual energetic healing.

(See also: Therapeutic touch, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

QUANTUM-TOUCH

This hands-on healing method offers spontaneous adjusting of proper alignment of the body. Principles behind Quantum-Touch involve resonance, intention, attention, breath, and innate body intelligence.

Using various breathing techniques and meditations, a light touch is applied to activate the body’s own healing process.

(See also: QUANTUM-TOUCH, Alternative Health, Massage, Bodywork, Body Mind and Soul)

Therapeutic Touch and Related Practices:

Numerous other practices have evolved over the years to promote or maintain the balance of vital energy fields in the body. Examples of these modalities include Therapeutic Touch, healing touch, Reiki, Johrei, vortex healing, and polarity therapy. All these modalities involve movement of the practitioner’s hands over the patient’s body to become attuned to the condition of the patient, with the idea that by so doing, the practitioner is able to strengthen and reorient the patient’s energies.

(See also: Therapeutic Touchs, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

Therapeutic Touch

is similar to Healing Touch, but in Therapeutic Touch no physical contact is involved. Since the human energy field extends outwards beyond the skin, the assessment and clearing of any imbalances and/or blockages is accomplished by moving the hands just above the skin.

The intention of the practitioner to heal or to reduce pain generates a directed energy into the patient's field. Developed by Delores Krieger, Ph.D., RN, and by Dora Hunt at New York University's Division of Nursing; derived from the 'laying on of hands' tradition.

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

Therapeutic Touch (TT, Krieger-Kunz Method of Therapeutic Touch): A derivative of the laying on of hands. Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., and Dora van Gelder Kunz, a clairvoyant born in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), initiated TT in 1972. Nursing professor emerita Dolores Krieger is the author of Accepting Your Power to Heal: The Personal Practice of Therapeutic Touch (Bear and Company, 1993), Foundations for Holistic Health Nursing Practices: The Renaissance Nurse, Living the Therapeutic Touch: Healing As a Lifestyle, The Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help or to Heal (Simon & Schuster, 1992), and the Therapeutic Touch Inner Workbook: Ventures in Transpersonal Healing (Bear and Company, 1996). TT theory posits chakras and manually transmittable human energies.

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

THERAPEUTIC TOUCH

Developed through the collaboration of a nursing professor and a spiritual healer, Therapeutic Touch is based on ancient energy healing methods.

Practitioners, primarily nurses, are trained to feel or sense energy imbalances in the client and to use “laying on” of hands to disperse blocks and channel healing forces to the client’s body.

The therapist uses a light touch or holds the hand above the body, with the client generally seated. Meditation is used by the therapist to center herself and strengthen her connection to the client’s energy system.

Therapeutic Touch has been applied in an assortment of medical situations, including the care of premature infants and emergency room patients. It is known to induce a state of relaxation within minutes.

Therapeutic Touch is considered safe because of its gentle, noninvasive approach. Developers of this technique affirm that everyone has the potential to heal with Therapeutic Touch and may be taught the methodology in one day.

(See also: THERAPEUTIC TOUCH, Alternative Health, Massage, Bodywork, Body Mind and Soul)

Energy: Therapeutic Touch

Therapeutic touch is a method that claims to assist the natural healing process by redirecting and rebalancing the energy fields within the body.

A practitioner places his or her hands on or close to the body of the patient and redistributes the patient's energy or transmits his or her own energy as appropriate. Stories of the use of touch as a healing method can be found in the Bible, in Greek mythology and Eastern philosophy, in Native American myths, and in the "royal touch" of the kings in medieval Europe. Therapeutic touch was developed and named in 1972 by Dolores Krieger, a nursing professor at New York University.

Therapeutic Touch (TT) is currently taught worldwide to anyone who is interested in learning the technique. As of 1998, an estimated 100,000 people around the world have been trained in Therapeutic Touch, 43,000 of those persons are health care professionals, many of whom use Therapeutic Touch in conjunction with traditional medicine, as well as osteopathic, chiropractic, naturopathic, and homeopathic therapies (The Gale Encyclopedia of Complementary Medicine). http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/g2603/0001/2603000124/p1/article.jhtml

(See also: Therapeutic Touch, Alternative Health, Holistic Health, Body Mind and Soul)

TRAUMA TOUCH THERAPY

Trauma touch therapy was developed to address the needs of clients affected by trauma and abuse, including sexual and emotional abuse or battering and the trauma of war, surgery, or criminal violence.

Focused on empowering the client, this technique combines therapeutic movement and breathwork with psychotherapeutic elements to bring body and mind together in holistic healing. The pace of therapy is determined individually according to the client’s need. Relearning touch from a healthy perspective is a major focus of the therapy.

The trauma touch training program was developed in 1993 at the Colorado School of Healing Arts.

(See also: TRAUMA TOUCH THERAPY, Alternative Health, Massage, Bodywork, Body Mind and Soul)

Therapeutic Touch: Based on the idea that energy extends beyond the skin into a field surrounding and interpenetrating the body. This therapy aims to re-establish proper energy flow, which allows the body’s innate healing abilities to take over. This technique is used increasingly by nurses to help relieve pain and stress, for example.

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

Taoist Energy Touch: Traditional healing art taught by Nan Lu (see Spring Dragon Qi Gong). It involves summoning and directing internal energy to alleviate common minor ailments.

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

etheric touch: manual means of directing human and spiritual energies to initiate and boost self-healing. It is a form of chakra healing and channeling whose principle is that, through the hands, one can:

(a)           sense imbalances in the subtle energy fields of an individual; and

(b)           project healing vibrations (universal energy), which are augmentable with divine force. It does not require touch.

(See also: Etheric touch, 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)