Healing Touch

In Healing Touch, practitioners use their hands to promote balance in patients’ energy fields. Although it seems similar to massage – the patient typically lies on a massage table – a practitioner uses either gentle touch or no touch at all. Therapy involves an assessment of patients’ biofields, and practitioners place their hands over various parts of the body to clear energy blockages and re-pattern energy fields.

Healing Touch can help shorten recovery time from illness, as well as promote deep relaxation. In addition to several other physical and mental benefits, it can help strengthen the immune system and aid in pain and stress reduction. In the past 15 years, at least 100 U.S. hospitals have started offering Healing Touch, according to a late 2007 story from USA Today. There are more than 80,000 health care practitioners that use the therapy, and more than 50,000 people have taken Healing Touch classes.

(SOURCE: Healing Touch International, Healing Touch Program, USA Today)