Healing Touch
What is Healing Touch?
Touch in and of itself is healing. The
phrase "healing touch" is commonly used. There is, however, a very
specific program of energy healing named Healing Touch. Healing Touch is
an energy-based therapy. By the gentle placing of hands on or near the
body, the flow of energy can be re-directed, promoting a feeling of deep
relaxation. Its goal is to restore the body's natural flow of energy,
thus facilitating self-healing.
Healing Touch is complementary to other
health care modalities. Developed within the nursing profession, this
program lends itself to integration with conventional medical settings.
Background and Description
 The Healing Touch program
grew out of the work and teaching of nurse-healer, Janet Mentgen, who taught the
first official Healing Touch course in 1989. The program she developed
is partly based on her interpretation of the healing philosophies and methods of well-known healers, such as
Alice Bailey, Dr. Brugh Joy, Barbara Brennan, and Rosalyn Bruyere. It also
includes techniques of lesser known healers, as well as insights and techniques
discovered by Mentgen and her nursing colleagues.
Healing Touch is taught in five levels, and for
those who wish to complete the program, can lead to becoming a Healing Touch
Practitioner. In addition, those who wish to demonstrate their competence
in the program can complete special requirements and get certified through
Healing Touch International. The program is taught globally with a
standardized curriculum, and certification is a rigorous process. Those
who wish to become instructors in Healing Touch can complete a sixth level after
becoming certified.
More:
To read learn about Healing Touch in detail, visit
the Healing Touch website:
http://www.healingtouch.net.
Read article about Mary Maddux's work with
Healing Touch in hospice (Napa Valley Register, March 1999).
REFERENCES:
Healing Touch: a Guidebook for Practitioners, Dorothea
Hover-Kramer, Delmar Publishers, 2000 (newly revised version). For those
interested in Healing Touch and its techniques. Intermediate for the most
part, some introductory material. Excellent chapter by Janet Mentgen,
founder of HT, on the role and methods of the healer.
White Shadow:
Walking with Janet Mentgen, by Diane Wind Wardell, Colorado Center for
Healing Touch, 2000.
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