Vital life force energy, also known as “chi” or qi in China; “prana” in India and “ki” in Japan is the Universal Energy that nourishes and circulates through all living things. This Universal Energy is everywhere all at once, available to human beings through the breath, water and food intake and is recognized by healers everywhere as Love and Light.

What is Healing?

Healing is described as “a process of bringing parts of one’s self together at a deep level of inner knowing resulting in an integrated, balanced whole with each part having equal importance and value.” Dossey, Keegan, Guzzetta, Kolkmeir

The healing process offers the patient a sense of control over their own experience helping them to reflect on how they feel about themselves, their worldview and outlook on life. The self-reflective process helps the healee shift their focus away from illness towards the self to enhance their sense of well-being.

An intensely personal experience, healing involves transcending suffering and cultivates the ability to see meaning and purpose within the framework of any life situation.

Energy Healing

Modes of vibrational healing and various forms of electromagnetic energy transfer range from laying on of hands, sound healing, music therapy, colour healing, prayer and long distance healing.

In every culture, in every medical tradition before ours, healing was accomplished by moving energy. Nobel Prize Winner, Albert Szent-Gyorgi (1893–1986)

Therapeutic Touch™ Energy Healing

Therapeutic Touch, a consciously directed process during which the practitioner uses the hands as a focus with the intent to enable the healee to re-pattern their energy field toward wholeness and health, is recognized in over 90 countries around the world.

In Therapeutic Touch, healing is perceived as a humanization of energy which brings order to body systems that are fatigued, in trauma, imbalance or in a state of disrepair. Dr. Dolores Krieger

Over 100,000 people have been trained ranging from medical doctors, nurses, pregnant women and their partners, hospice workers, professional actors, educators and lay people. Therapeutic Touch is taught in colleges around the world and has a substantial base of formal and clinical research and has been included at the doctorate level in several universities with more than 18 Ph.D. Theses and 22 Post-Doctoral Research Projects on Therapeutic Touch having been published.

In Canada, Therapeutic Touch is recognized as a nursing modality by the Order of Nurses of Quebec, the Ontario College of Nurses and the Victorian Order of Nurses (VON). It is used in various Canadian hospitals in Oncology and Maternity, with organ transplant and in Intensive Care Units and popular in hospices, retirement homes and in wellness and stress and pain clinics.

Research continues with the 2008 U of Connecticut’s bone cell proliferation study conducted by Gloria Growowicz, PhD. For an annotated bibliography of clinical research on Therapeutic Touch from 1974 - 2010 visit Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario.

Theoretical Framework

Dr. Martha Rogers, a world leader in nursing theory and research, developed the “theory of the Human Energy Field” in the early 1970s.

The model proposed a holistic view of every person as a human energy system with the whole being greater that the sum of its parts. The system, maintained through patterning and organization, is a complex energy field that is in constant, open and in dynamic interaction with its environment.

In good health, the system’s energy is balanced and its flow is unhindered. Stress, injury and illness however affect the balance, energy distribution, order and openness.

Dora Van Gelder-Kunz, a well-respected natural healer with enhanced perceptual abilities and Dr. Dolores Krieger, RN, PhD developed Therapeutic Touch in the early 1970s with Martha Rogers theory of the human energy field providing the framework.

Therapeutic Touch™ Works!

Research and experience have shown the effectiveness of Therapeutic Touch in:

• Eliciting a relaxation response and reducing stress
• Reducing in anxiety
• Altering the perception of pain
• Accelerating wound healing
• Ease asthmatic breathing
• Lower high fevers and eliminate inflammation
• Calm crying babies and relieve difficult labour
• Improving the sense of well-being
• Encouraging natural movement toward restoration and wholeness
• Reducing the sense of isolation in all areas of patient care at any stage of the healthcare continuum
• Fostering skill in self help and healthy lifestyle choices

How Therapeutic Touch Works

In Therapeutic Touch, the practitioner uses touch or no touch, depending on the healee’s preference. The practitioner’s hands move around and through the various layers of the healee’s energy field, a few inches away from the body assessing the nature, quality and condition of the healee’s subtle energy. Cues may be experienced as tingling sensations in the hands or somewhere in the body, heat or cold, pressure, sharp or jagged electrical impulses, energy bursts or pulsations, textures etc and provide insight.

Information gained in the assessment phase, informs the practitioner’s response in the rebalancing phase of the session which entails:

• clearing the field
• modulating and directing energy
• energy transfer and
• energy field re-patterning promoting enhanced balance and wholeness.

The practitioner, unattached to outcome and present to the moment, becomes "an instrument of healing." Use of imagery, color and sound, directed by compassionate intentionality through the hands, nourishes the patient’s energy field and stimulates healing.

The healer does a re-assessment of the healee’s energy field. The session ends with the healee having a 10 – 20 minute rest.

The effect is cumulative and response can be immediate with a relaxation response experienced within 2 - 4 minutes of the beginning of a session. Effects can be experienced in waves taking a few hours or days to be fully realized. The nature of the condition, symptoms, lifestyle habits and psychological health are all factors that either affect the healing process.

Stages of the Healing Journey

1. Learning to manage relationship to pain. Over time and with training, the healee learns to direct their consciousness to turn the pain on or off much like in using a dimmer switch.

2. Accepting your power to heal. The beliefs we hold shape and limit what we imagine possible. Accepting our power to heal means changing our beliefs and giving ourselves permission to accept the possibility that we can heal ourselves and commit to participating in the process.

3. Releasing old, unhelpful stories. – The story we tell ourselves about ourselves and our situation is what shapes our self-identity and keeps us stuck. Recognizing that we have the power to change the story we can begin to accept responsibility for ourselves and choose to let go of the stories and beliefs we no longer want. By letting go of old unhelpful stories we declutter our minds and create a safe, empty inner space for new possibilities to emerge.

4. Creating healing intention. –This shift towards Self-responsibility is a shift towards Self-empowerment that provides us with a new source of energy and inspiration to support the healing process – the greater the belief in the possibility for healing, the greater the life force energy available to us! The enhanced energy helps us create healing intention and accelerates the healing process.

5. Opening to new possibilities. Allowing for new possibilities of healing and wellness is the beginning of a process of transformation and regeneration. When we are open to change – open to the possibilities – we give ourselves and the universe permission to interact in a new more playful, a more intentional way. What we can imagine possible and our expectations of the future influence our experience while we realize that the outcome is beyond our control, we accept ourselves more fully.

6. Rewriting/changing our story. – To write a new script for ourselves, we must first know who we are. Self-observation, introspection and reflection without judgment give us the insight and realization we need to sort fact from fiction that is built on fear, shame and vulnerabilities. We begin to discern and distinquish other people’s influences and values we’ve adopted without thinking from our own, reclaim our energy, rebalance our lives and acknowledge and embrace our unique strengths. This realization helps us transform our understanding of ourselves from one of victim to self-empowered co-creator on a journey to a new way of being. In the process, we embrace who we are now and get clear on who we want to become. The old unhelpful stories we have been living by simply fall away.

7. Making Better Choices. - Getting clear on who we are and what’s working for us is self-empowering and helps us make better, self-empowered choices.

8. Envisioning a healthy and inspired Life. –Feelings of empowerment enable us to create a compelling vision worth aspiring to. To ground the vision in our values is to embody it. Embodying the vision is the first step to manifesting it as a reality. We embody this vision by allowing ourselves to feel what we want to experience – the promise that the vision offers, as if already realized.

9. Wholeness and balance is a destination. – a quality of experience and elusive state in a dynamic and ever-changing environment available to us in every moment, that may be achieved through intentional conscious living.

Working with a life coach can facilitate this process.

Coaching is wonderfully effective in helping the healee process and integrate their discoveries, designing and supporting the person to take inspired action to realize their potential.

The quality of the relationship, the rapport that develops between healer and healee or coach and coachee creates the safe and sacred space necessary for transformation and healing and exploration and discovery.

Healing - Path to Empowerment

Therapeutic Touch is a dual process. One aspect involves helping and healing the person who is ill, the other revolves around what happens within the practitioner.

Empowerment in Therapeutic Touch comes through the practitioner’s quest for a liaison with the inner self. Dr. Dolores Krieger

Holistic world view offers an empowerment model with the Self at the centre in an ever-changing relationship to one’s social reality and one’s environment.

In this world view, centering in one's Self is what offers us a sense of stability and an opening to the universal life force energy. To sustain centre is to maintain this connection the source of our supply - to the universal life force energy.

The practice of directing compassionate intent from a centred state of consciousness to help or heal another through Therapeutic Touch cultivates Self-empowerment.

It is as Raman Maharshi says, All that one gives to others one gives to oneself. IF this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

(c) Julia von Flotow, Certified Life Coach, July 7, 2011

Inspiration

It is possible there exist human emanations that are still unknown to us. Do you remember how electrical currents and “unseen waves” were laughed at? The knowledge about man is still in its infancy. Albert Einstein

Natural reality goes beyond any human idea but the extent to which we can bring it into our world depends on our ideas. D. Bohm The Special Theory of Relativity Routledge Publications

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