Hands-on Healing Techniques Revisited

Dawn Greenwald writing for The Daily News out of New Mexico has covered a number of healing techniques, starting with Dolores Krieger’s Therapeutic Touch up to the latest Biofield Therapy or Quantum Biofeedback Therapy. She points out that hands-on practitioners do not claim to treat, cure or diagnose but their ability to reduce pain and suffering as well as rebuild immunity makes it an ideal complimentary practice to modern medicine, just as physiotherapy is today. Please read some of what she has to say about hands-on healing techniques.

Hands-on Healing Techniques Revisited

"Hands-On Healing" is an energy medicine technique that is more common than most people realize.The instrument, or Hands-On practitioner, facilitates physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health by light touch and sometimes gentle sweeping motions over the body to balance, open blockages and relax muscles. Each session is Aunique as it is guided by the needs of the client, but every session will produce a feeling of deep relaxation.
By the 1970s, nurses were using a form of Hands-On technique called therapeutic touch, founded by Dr. Dolores Krieger of the New York University School of Nursing. A modern-day "laying on of hands," this nursing intervention was shown to relieve pain and enhance the bodies ability to heal.
Today, the outgrowth of this compassionate expression of love and caring is a program called "Healing Touch." According to the website of Healing Touch Program (www.healingtouchprogram.com), a training and certification program, Healing Touch is "...an energy therapy in which practitioners consciously use their hands in a heart-centered and intentional way to support and facilitate physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health."
The National Institutes of Health refer to it as a "biofield therapy." Research studies show that it is effective for pain management, stress reduction, anxiety and relaxation. Today it is practiced in health clinics and hospitals nationally and throughout the world, wherever compassionate care is offered.
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I was originally trained in Therapeutic Touch by Dolores Kreiger, who at that time would only teach people who were already in the helping professions and able to use the techniques immediately. The nurses who assisted her classes had numerous stories of people in emergency situations recovering faster, even premature babies and elderly patients going through surgery. I wonder if this great method, now called Healing Touch, is still being used in certain hospitals? Have you had any experience with hands-on healing? Please leave a comment about hands-on healing techniques revisited below. Do you believe it is effective towards recovery?