Part 1: The adventure of healing touch -- Healing touch stories from everyday lived experiences -- A dream comes to life : how healing touch happened -- Healing touch as a major participant in today's integrative health care -- Part 2: Theory, science, and research supporting energy medicine -- Energy medicine's history and theory -- Scientific support for energy medicine -- Research about healing touch and related energy-medicine practices -- Part 3: Healing touch skills for you and the people you care about -- Setting healing intention with self-care -- Centering and grounding : "E.T. Phone Home" -- Healing touch fundamentals : magnetic passes and variations -- Healing touch resources for pain relief -- Healing touch methods for energizing the body and mind -- Healing touch for all stages of life -- Energetic interventions to release trauma -- Part 4: Your next steps -- Sharing your passion for caring -- Finding kindred spirits, practitioners, mentors, and referral sources -- Learning to trust your intuitive knowing -- Selecting the path with heart for you.
Summary:
"Healing Touch is one of the most accepted and widespread energy-healing modalities in the world. With more than a hundred hospitals in the US and Canada using energy medicine as part of their regular care, the number of people who have learned Healing Touch has surpassed 100,000 and several thousands have become certified practitioners. This practical guidebook is the first to give instruction in some of the foundational and easily learned methods in an introductory format. Presented by founding elder Dr. Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Healing Touch takes readers through 18 fundamental exercises for applying this scientifically validated energy medicine."--P. [4] of cover.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.