Healing Touch

Healing Touch is an evidence-based biofield (magnetic field around the body) energy healing therapy in which practitioners consciously use their hands in a heart-centered and intentional way to enhance, support and facilitate physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health and self-healing. Light touch or near-body touch is used to clear energy blockages and to balance and energize the human energy system to promote healing for the whole person -- body, mind and spirit. Healing Touch may also be provided as a distance healing intervention (DHI). This complementary, integrative energy therapy can be used in conjunction with traditional therapies.

Healing Touch has been shown to reduce pain, increase mental clarity, relieve stress and anxiety, support deep relaxation, and accelerate healing from injury, medical procedures and surgery.

Practitioners

Healing Touch Practitioners use skills learned in the Healing Touch Program training, which is backed by a professional Code of Ethics and Scope of Practice. The Healing Touch Program is accredited by the American Nurses Credentialing Center as a provider of continuing education for nurses and is endorsed by the American Holistic Nurses Association. A worldwide directory of Healing Touch Practitioners is available on the Healing Touch Program website.

Sessions

Healing Touch sessions can be given anywhere. In-person sessions are typically administered while the client reclines on a massage table, fully clothed. The practitioner uses his/her hands near the body to assess the client’s energy system. Then he/she proceeds to clear and balance the system as needed using either off-body (no direct contact) interventions or a gentle, still touch over various areas of the body. There is no tissue manipulation. Sessions may be administered at a distance, with the practitioner in one location and the client in another. Initial Healing Touch sessions are for 90 minutes. Subsequent sessions are generally for 1 hour, including pre- and post- discussions and scheduling issues. Longer visits may be arranged as desired.

Healing Touch sessions in hospitals and other healthcare facilities are available.

Distance Healing

“Distance, even thousands of miles, does not appear to limit the effects of healing,” according to Daniel J. Benor, MD, who has published a journal article reviewing 61 studies of distant healing. Benor describes studies in which significant effects of distant healing have been demonstrated by randomized controlled trials in humans, animals, plants, bacteria, yeasts, cells in the laboratory, and DNA. Gail provides distance healing services via telephone or telehealth video.

Sources

Benor, D. J., (2000). Distant Healing. Subtle Energies & Energy Medicine, 11(3), pp. 249-264.

Healing Touch Program (www.healingtouchprogram.com)