Healing Touch (HT): Variation of Therapeutic Touch and Non-Contact Therapeutic Touch whose design is to restore balance to the client's energy system.

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

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)

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)

HEALING TOUCH

is practiced by registered nurses and others to accelerate wound healing, relieve pain, promote relaxation, prevent illness and ease the dying process. The practitioner uses light touch or works with his or her hands near the client’s body in an effort to restore balance to the client’s energy system

(See also: HEALING TOUCH, Alternative Health, Healing, Body Mind and Soul)

Healing touch:

one of the touch therapies that uses a variety of techniques to repattern and align the biofield, allowing the innate healing process to occur. Healing touch is an energy-based, therapeutic approach to healing and uses touch to influence the energy system thus affecting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health.

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

HEALING TOUCH

Healing Touch is an energy-based therapeutic approach to healing. Healing Touch uses touch to influence the energy system, thus affecting physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health, and healing.

The goal of Healing Touch is to restore harmony and balance in the energy system to help the person to self-heal. The quality and impact of the healing is influenced by the relationship between the giver and receiver.

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

Healing Touch: This form of energy therapy uses a very light hands-on approach to align and balance the human energy field. See also Therapeutic Touch.

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

Healing Touch: Healing Touch is a program of energy techniques developed by a nurse, Janet Mentgen, in 1989. It is a Certificate program originally developed for the American Holistic Nurses Assoc. (AHNA). Healing Touch is used to accelerate wound healing, relieve pain, promote relaxation, and prevent illness.

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

BIOMAGNETIC TOUCH HEALING

Bio-magnetic touch healing is a light touch complementary healing method that employs the index and middle fingers of each hand to lightly touch specific points on the body. The combination of correct points, light and butterfly-like touch activates the body’s own inherent healing ability and is subtly motivated.

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

Healing Touch

Like Reiki and acupuncture, Healing Touch operates on the subtle energy system of the human body. In Healing Touch, manual manipulation is gentle and non-invasive. By assessing and treating the imbalances in the chakra energy system, the practitioner assists the client in self-healing.

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

HEALING TOUCH: is practiced by registered nurses and others to accelerate wound healing, relieve pain, promote relaxation, prevent illness and ease the dying process. The practitioner uses light touch or works with his or her hands near the clientÕs body in an effort to restore balance to the clientÕs energy system.

This energy approach is inspired by several old practices of cure, among which the laying on of hands. At the same time preventive and curative, its allows the person to re-mobilize her forces, as well physical, emotional, psychic as spiritual for a greater harmony.

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

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)

Bio-Magnetic Touch Healing

is a simple, hands-on healing technique in which practitioners use the first two fingers of both hands to lightly touch specific points on the body. The light touching of the correct points enhances the body's natural healing ability. This simple, easily learned technique complements other health care programs, and is effective from the first time one uses it.

(See also: Bio-Magnetic Touch Healing, Alternative Health, Body Mind and Soul)

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)

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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)

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)

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)

Therapeutic Touch inner work: Expansion of Therapeutic Touch developed and taught by Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N. Its principle is that the most profound healing originates in a transpersonal realm.

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