When there is illness, pain, injury, disease, etc., this Life Force Energy becomes interrupted, obstructed, or even depleted in one or more areas of the body. This change in energy and flow can be easily felt by a practitioner. This then gives you the data needed to proceed knowledgeably. Physical contact is not necessary because at the level of physical proximity and focused intent used, the energy fields of healer and patient are continuous. Therapeutic Touch can be practiced on babies, pets and plants as well as adults.
Research indicates that it does produce statistically significant l evels of effective healing.
Patients generally report an increased sense of well-being and respite from pain after Therapeutic Touch sessions. The key to practicing Therapeutic Touch is balancing the patient's energy. Pain or injury within the body or mind is reflected by changes in the energy field that surrounds and penetrates the physical body. With the healer's own energy field properly shielded and stabilized through meditation and centering, the patient's energy field can be rebalanced, which will in turn allow the patient's own energy to effect the necessary healing. After the available energy is redistributed, the healer will often channel universal background energy into the patient's aura as an extra reserve for the patient to use at will.