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?

Spiritual Healing Retreat of the Week: Fivelements

Here is a fascinating retreat place located on the Indonesian island of Bali, a magical place in its own right. This is more high end than the retreats I have featured before, but if you have the money to spend, this award-winning location will pamper you with the great Balinese healing techniques, and you can stay in luxurious and private rooms surrounded by trees and lush vegetation. Here are some comments from the website: http://www.fivelements.com

Spiritual Healing Retreat of the Week: Fivelements

 

Fivelements is a company co-creating holistic healing destinations.Heartquartered at Fivelements, Puri Ahimsa healing centre in Bali, Indonesia, the parent company intends to create an alliance of healing centres around the globe that will bridge the wisdom of traditional healing cultures and promote peace among nations through the growth of these mystic economies.
At Fivelements, Puri Ahimsa, healing is inspired by the Balinese way of life, which encourages us to nurture harmony with spirit, the environment and with one another. Similarly, our holistic approach is designed to tune-in on the physical, emotional and spiritual levels, allowing an organic healing process to naturally unfold. We collaborate with our guests to activate, facilitate and nurture a new healing path, and this begins by honouring our highest potential.
Fivelements embraces holistic Balinese-inspired therapies administered by traditional Balinese healers using ancient wisdoms passed down from direct lineage. Following the Balinese principle of Sekala-Niskala, which holds that we all live equally in two worlds; the seen or conscious world Sekala, and the unseen or psychic world Niskala, the Balinese healers engage the help of the higher divine source during each healing session.
Healing rituals include a combination of meditation, deep bodywork and prana energy, performed by healers whose gifted talents have been handed down through generations of Balinese families. Energy Healing introduces the powerful Panca Mahabhuta in which Pak Wayan works to balance the five elements of earth, water, fire, air and ether within the body.
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The great response to this resort and the others they are connected to has shown what wonderful care and treatment they provide. Then you have the fun of being on Bali with all the various events that happen on this very colorful Hindu island. I would love to hear from anyone who has visited this particular resort or been to Bali. Please leave a comment below.

Spiritual Practices from Archangel Michael

This is a book review of a new book by Les Feast, Messages from Heaven: Is Anyone Listening? The review is written in PR Web from Dudley Park, Australia. It tells of the story of Les’ experiences with Archangel Michael when he was in India and the subsequent communications with him. Here’s a little bit about this new spiritual book: Messages from Heaven and the spiritual practices from Archangel Michael.

Spiritual Practices from Archangel Michael

Yet, things go from bad to worse when Feast breaks his foot and is mired at the ashram with Sri Sathya Sai Baba for seven days. However, says Feast, on that seventh day, something miraculous happened.
“At about four in the morning,” says Feast, “I am awakened by this huge light shining in my room and as I gaze at it, I hear the words, ‘I am Michael and I have come in answer of your prayer, do you want my help?’ There was no hesitation in thinking. I immediately, say, ‘yes, please.’”
Feast lists this first communication with Archangel Michael as the first of many. This first encounter also marked Feast’s commitment to serve as a medium and healer.
Feast has taught and worked with some of Australia’s leading mediums and healers. In Messages from Heaven, he recounts the lessons and words of the Archangel Michael and shows readers how to operate from their inner source of power.
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Les is a spiritual teacher and healer who holds weekly meditation and development groups in Western Australia. He is involved in the Spiritualist Church there. If you are interested in reading more about this book by Less Feast, click here. There is a regular and a Kindle version. If you like the ideas in this article, please click “like” below or perhaps ever “share” as well.

Spirit Healing and Rejuvenation through Fasting

Fasting is an old way to gain insight and direction, especially if it is done alone in a remote place without distraction. But did you know it’s good for your body and soul too? Here’s an article by Jack Eidt written for wilderutopia.com (Environmental Health section) about spirit healing and rejuvenation through fasting. He first discusses some famous historical fasters such as Jesus, Muslims during Ramadan, Gandhi and Jews during Yom Kippur. Then he explain the health benefits of fasting.

Spirit Healing and Rejuvenation through Fasting

ACMany health practitioners follow the rapidly advancing research field of autophagy, the study of how cells metabolize and eliminate damaged cellular debris, a process which increases under conditions of nutrient starvation. Hence, fasting and cleansing diets that reduce nutrient intake induce detoxification at the cellular level that does not otherwise occur. According to Dr. James Balch in his book Nutritional Healing, during a fast:

• Natural toxin excretion continues without new toxin replenishment, reducing total body toxicity.
• Energy used for digestion redirects to immune function, cell growth, and eliminatory processes.
• The immune system’s workload is reduced and spares the digestive tract inflammation due to allergic reactions to food.
• Lowered of serum fats thin the blood, increasing tissue oxygenation and moving white blood cells more efficiently.
• Fat-stored chemicals such as pesticides and drugs, are released.
• Physical awareness and sensitivity to diet and surroundings are increased.

A three-day fast helps the body rid itself of toxins and cleanses the blood. A five-day fast begins the process of healing and rebuilding the immune system. A ten-day fast can help fight off illness, including degenerative diseases common to our chemically polluted environment.
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The article ends by suggesting a couple of well-known types of fasts and suggests avoiding fasts of water only as toxins get released too fast, causing strong reactions such as headaches and muscle cramps. This is good advice as we are all not Gandhis or native Americans of old. However, what he fails to mention is that a fast needs to be done in a time when the person is not pressured by work or that commitments and preferably in the warmer months as your fasting body does feel the cold most strongly. If you would like to know more about spirit healing and rejuvenation through fasting, I recommend The Miracle of Fasting: Proven Throughout History for Physical, Mental and Spiritual Rejuvenation by Paul Bragg.