Stress Kills, if You Let It… Learn to Relax!

Every living system is equipped with two modes of being – growth or defence. Peace and harmony are requisite conditions for growth. When these conditions are right, the living system’s growth experience has characteristic qualities of flow, rhythm, strength and symmetry. Growth, however can be frustrated, hindered or arrested by stress, triggered … [Read more...]

How to Face Suffering with Compassionate Intent

Therapeutic Touch® is widely recognized as a gift that eases pain and suffering, so common at end of life. To understand and appreciate Therapeutic Touch as a helpful means of easing the experience of those dying, it is important perhaps to reflect on the end of life experience from the perspective of the dying; the context and the dynamic of … [Read more...]

You Don’t Stop at Your Skin!

In Therapeutic Touch™, the healing field is the subtle, non-physical energy field, generated by the healee, that is palpable beyond the body’s physical periphery – that is beyond the skin. The Therapeutic Touch practitioner, through practice, learns to guide the natural, orderly flow of energy coming out of the palms of her hands so as to … [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...]