Therapeutic Touch - A Brief Overview by Dreamsherd of Athena's Owl More and more, the old folklore healing ways of witches and tribal medicine people are being examined and vindicated by modern medicine. This method of providing comfort and support is being taught in Nursing and Medical school curricula throughout the U.S. as an adjunct to traditional Western medicine. 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 levels 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.