What is the Therapeutic Touch: hand healing

  • 2018

Therapeutic Touch is the practice of a healing system that uses alternative methods of traditional medicine for a comprehensive understanding of the patient and to eliminate energy blockages that cause health problems.

It is a technique that is linked and has its roots in Reiki, with the difference that the therapist who applies the therapeutic touch, does not make contact at any time with his hands on the body of the person who performs the treatment.

What is the therapeutic touch?

The therapeutic touch is related to the old practice called handshake .

This technique was based on the premise that universal energy, redirected by a trained therapist with sufficient knowledge, stimulated the patient's internal recovery mechanism and facilitated self-healing, to achieve the balance in the vital energy circulation.

The therapeutic touch was conceptually created in the decade of the 70s of the last century by Dora Kunz, president of Theosophical Society of America, and by Dolores Krieger, professor of nursing at the University from New York.

Dolores Krieger was convinced that the palms of the hands are chakras that can channel the healing energy. He wrote several books on the subject, including "Therapeutic Touch: How to use your hands to help and heal" (Therapeutic Touch: How to use your hands to help and to heal, 1979).

Dora Kunz was her mentor and was an intuitive healer . She claimed that it was possible to capture the energy radiated by the body in order to assess its potential and integrity for healing purposes.

The Concept of Therapeutic Touch

Therapeutic touch is based on the belief that every living being has a vital energy field that extends beyond the body and generates an aura that a sensitive and experienced therapist can grasp with the palms of his hands.

This is the name given to this type of alternative energy medicine where the therapist moves his hands over the patient's energy field to redirect the flow of Qi or Prana, balance the body's energies and heal their ailments.

The energy field of people, due to innumerable amount of factors that influence it, is unbalanced or misaligned. It is when the energy gets clogged and goes out of tune, causing various health problems.

When the energy healer understands that he can manipulate and readjust that energy with his hands, he can achieve the necessary balance and restorative harmony .

For this, the therapist moves his hands resembling a massage in the air, a few centimeters from the affected area or where the therapist understands that he must make energy readjustment.

At the same time that the healer performs the therapeutic touch and moves his hands in circles in search of a better energy flow, he is also contributing part of his vital energy in favor of the health of his patient .

The understanding of this type of energy communication by the patient, restores his energy field and leads him to a state of balance and harmony that will unlock any type of obstruction he is suffering.

But not only the energy exchange is effective. There are other factors that influence a good resolution of the internal problem. Generally, the patient may appear fearful or anxious, or on the contrary feel hopeful or optimistic.

That is when the therapist's humanitarian attitude, which demonstrates from the beginning his interest in healing, will directly and deeply affect the patient's feelings.

The Therapeutic Touch will make the person feel better and will also improve their mood when they can feel, when they can perceive inside the energy that the therapist is transmitting.

Seen in Komen, by Pedro, editor of the White Brotherhood

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