Healing Touch Therapy
Healing Touch Therapy is a hands-on therapy that helps to restore and balance energy that has been depleted due to stress, illness, injury, grief, medical conditions, surgery or medical treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation. It is a bio-field (magnetic field around the body) therapy and an energy-based approach to health and healing. The goal of treatment is to restore harmony and balance in the human energy system by creating an optimal environment that enables the body’s innate tendency for healing to occur.
When our energy system is off balance, the energy that usually flows through and around our bodies becomes congested. For example, pain is congested energy. When an individual has pain, the practitioner focuses on removing the energy congestion so that the pain level is reduced. Think of times when you have been stressed and how it affected your body. You may have experienced muscle tightness in your neck and shoulders, developed a headache or had discomfort in other parts of your body. Physical and mental stress causes congestion in our energy system, and Healing Touch techniques help to relieve that congestion.
Some other benefits of Healing Touch Therapy include:
- Reduces anxiety
- Enhances recovery from surgery
- Improves mobility after surgery
- Relieves tension, stress and depression
- Provides support during chemotherapy and radiation therapy
- Strengthens the immune system
- Reduces the effects of trauma and chronic pain
- Supports the dying process
- Deepens spiritual connection
- Reduces the length of hospital stays
Healing Touch Therapy is one of many energy-based modalities that are increasingly studied today. Many physicians, professional medical organizations and supporting research embrace Healing Touch Therapy as a viable component of an integrative approach to patient care.