Nueral Touch Therapy

see BOWEN THERAPY

(See also: Nueral Touch Therapy, 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)

Touch for Health: Touch for Health is a holistic approach to health which teaches the restoring of our natural energies. It is a practical guide to natural health using acupressure, touch and massage to improve postural balance and reduce physical and mental pain and tension.

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

Sound Touch Therapy (Sound Touch): Variation of Toning promoted by toning channel Wayne Perry. It involves identification of personal missing notes, attempts to facilitate their return, and the breakup of bodily energy blockages.

(See also: Sound Touch Therapy, 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)

Omar's Touch Therapy: A means of clearing blocked energy in the aura, body, and brain.

(See also: Omar's Touch Therapy, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

acupressure touch: Gentle form of acupressure.

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

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)

joy touch: A means of transcending one's body, taught by faith healer Pete Sanders, the author of You Are Psychic! It involves imagining gently brushing a certain part of the brain.

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

High Touch: Part of BRETH. High Touch is a way of touching on an energetic or physical plane anda means of soul-to-soul contact.

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

The use of nonbiomedical healing practices, such as using herbs, touch, and spiritual methods to heal.

(See also: Alternative healing, Magic, Shamanism, Pagan Dictionary)

Haelan Work: Complementary healing therapy that blends centering prayer (see divine therapy), healing dialogue, Holotropic Breathwork, meditation, and Therapeutic Touch.

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

Shiatsu Acupressure: Traditional Chinese system of healing touch. Its design is to balance body, mind, and spirit.

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

EmBodyment: Form of aura balancing and chakra healing that combines inner child work, sacred touch (a variation of CranioSacral Therapy), Toning, and other methods.

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

Bio-Magnetic Healing (Bio-Magnetic Healing Methodology, Bio-Magnetic Methodology, Bio-Magnetic Touch): Manual technique that, helps to heal recipients and increases their quality of life. Practitioners, who are tools of a greater Force, lightly touch specific points on recipients, to allow this Force to reawaken the healing process.

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

holistic nursing (wholistic nursing): Form of nursing that exalts intuition and may include AMMA Therapy, biofeedback, guided imagery, Healing Touch, homeopathy, iridology, massage therapy, Oriental medicine (especially acupuncture), psychic healing, tai chi, and/or Therapeutic Touch. Its goal is integration of body, mind, and spirit.

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

laying on of hands (contact healing): Healing by touching a person with the hands or palms.

According to its theory, a healthy person has vital energy to spare, which is transmittable into sick persons. Contact healing is at least 15,000 years old. Usually, the healer places his hands, palms down, on the top of the subject's head or on the subject's shoulders or waist.

Some proponents of alternative medicine use the expressions laying on of hands and touch therapy interchangeably. The former expression may also refer specifically to the act of laying hands on a person's head to confer a spiritual blessing, as in Christian rites of confirmation and ordination.

(See also: Laying on of hands, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Qigong therapy (buqi, buqi therapy, external qigong, external Qigong healing, External Qi Healing, medical Qigong, Qi An Mo, Qigong healing, Qi healing, Qi Massage, wai Qi liao fa, Wai Qi Zhi Liao):

1. medical application of short-distance psychokinesis. Qigong therapy is comparable to Non-Contact Therapeutic Touch. At most, it includes light touching.

Its theory posits healing Qi and diseased Qi. (Buqi means spreading the Qi. Wai Qi means external Qi and refers toa shield of chi at the surface of the body. Wai Qi liao fa means curing with external Qi.)

2. Subject of Qigong Therapy and How to Use It (East & West Publications, Ltd.), by Linhai; a combination of acupointing, chiropractics, massage, physical therapy, Tuina, and qi transmission.

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

Unergi Method (Unergi holistic therapy): Self-care system that integrates the Alexander Technique, Feldenkrais Awareness Movement, Gestalt therapy, and Rubenfeld Synergy. It includes dreamwork, healing touch, inner child work, meditation, and verbal therapy. Holistic Therapist Ute Arnold developed the method in or before 1978.

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

Temple Beautiful Programs (formerly the Temple Beautiful Program): Seven- and eleven-day residential programs offered by the A.R.E. Clinic, in Phoenix, Arizona. They borrow from the readings of Edgar Cayce (see The Cayce Approach to Health and Healing) and encompass dream interpretation, guided imagery, meditation, prayer, and touch healing. One of their major goals is the awakening of individual consciousness to the influence of the Divine within the atoms, cells, organs, and systems of the human body.

(See also: Temple Beautiful Programs, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Ten Jin Do (The Way of Angels): Transformational mode of energy work developed by psychic Anju Tenbu Myodo (the Japanese word anju means nun), who also developed Shaman Stone Healing. Ten Jin Do includes a meditative form of absent healing, through which its Touch is available anywhere on earth.

(See also: Ten Jin Do, Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)

Tera Mai Reiki' (Tera Mai' system): Form of reiki trademarked by artist and psychic Kathleen Ann Milner, the author of On the Edge Between Two Worlds: Ireland and the Ways of Healing, Reiki and Other Rays of Touch Healing (1994), and Tera, My Journey Home: Seichim, Shamanism, Symbology, Herbs and Reincarnation. Reportedly, in 1991 a Higher Being - a man with an Afro wearing orange robes - instructed Milner on the full reiki initiation procedures, which characterize Tera Mai Reiki.

(See also: Tera Mai Reiki', Body Mind and Soul, Alternative Health, Alternative Health Dictionary)