Therapeutic Touch® is a holistic, evidence-based, integrative therapy that incorporates the intentional and compassionate use of universal energy to promote balance and well-being in all aspects of the individual: body, emotions, mind and spirit. Developed in the early 1970’s through the pioneering work of Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN, a professor … [Read more...]
Imagination is the Heart’s Best Friend
Balance is dynamic (not static) - a state of optimum health marked by rhythm and flow. Optimum wellness is the felt experience of body, emotions, mind and spirit in a state of coherence – a state of openness, expanded awareness accompanied by a sense of oneness with ALL THAT IS, a feeling of true freedom and perfect abundance. While many … [Read more...]
Therapeutic Touch – A Complement to Modern Medicine
Therapeutic Touch™ (TT) is an energy field modality first developed in 1972, as a modern healing method by Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN and her colleague, Dora Kunz. Therapeutic Touch is a consciously directed process of energy exchange during which practitioners use their hands as a focus for facilitating healing. The intervention is administered … [Read more...]
Benefits of Therapeutic Touch™ for Healthcare Professionals
Florence Nightingale knew the body to have its own innate intelligence and that the systems of the body are interrelated, functioning separately while at the same time, as a whole. She said “Nature alone cures, all we need do is create an environment for nature to do its work”. Therapeutic Touch assists the process of natural restoration, using a … [Read more...]
A Holistic Vision for Healthcare in the 21st Century
There is much literature in circulation today about the growing use of complementary and alternative therapies for stress relief and healing. There is also a great deal of confusion about the many diverse complementary and alternative therapies available and what sets them apart from each other and how to make sense of the many services. Language … [Read more...]