Therapeutic Touch and the Human Energy Field

Therapeutic Touch is an alternative health modality commonly used in hospitals by nurses, but it's a skill anyone can learn. It helps elicit a relaxation response from the client and it can reduce pain and support the body's natural healing process. While it can be performed without physical contact - making it the most non-invasive treatment possible - clients who are comfortable with touch generally benefit from some contact during a session of Therapeutic Touch.

While some practitioners are naturally sensitive to the human energy field and can sense it without assistance, most of us need some training to experience the field or enhance our ability to pick up and interpret the many nuances the field offers.

The field of energy in living things flows naturally from the head to the feet. The job of a Therapeutic Touch practitioner is to assess the field for disruptions in flow, which may manifest as congestion or depletion of energy at various locations in the field. The practitioner then restores the human energy field so that its flow is once again smooth and uninterrupted.

I cannot expound enough on the benefits of relaxation provided by Therapeutic Touch. I work with some of my clients in their homes, especially those with mobility issues. Some of them have chronic pain. Yet, it's not uncommon for them to fall asleep as soon as I begin the session. I often tiptoe out at the end, leaving them in a deep pain-free slumber. As a perk of performing Therapeutic Touch, I find myself relaxed and with energy to spare.

Therapeutic Touch is also useful as a calming agent for distressed animals. In my volunteer work as a driver for a wildlife rescue organization, I provide Therapeutic Touch in transit to help the animal cope with its injuries and the stress of transportation to the facility.

Courses in Therapeutic Touch are offered in three levels, but Level 1 is all that is needed for people who want to use it at home with their family and pets. While Level 1 is fine for home use, Levels 2 and 3 deepen one's ability to assess the finer nuances of the human energy field and its various layers, not only feeling tactile differences but using the other senses to spot changes as well. People who become very proficient in Therapeutic Touch, and learn to harness the energy available to all of us for healing, find great satisfaction in offering an alternative health modality that benefits not only the client but the practitioner as well.

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Therapeutic Touch for Animals: A Day in the Life of a Practitioner

I've just arrived home from the office and the phone is ringing. Sue Meech at the Sandy Pines Animal Rescue Centre is calling. Can I go to a location in my town and pick up an injured bird? As a volunteer driver for Sandy Pines, I'm happy to comply.

I arrive at the location minutes later to find a very frightened and injured seagull in a cardboard box. I carefully set the box down in the car and perform Therapeutic Touch on the restless creature. She begins to calm down. During the drive, however, she becomes agitated by the journey and tries to free herself from her confines. "We've got a feisty one here," I tell the attendants when I arrive.

We take her into the flight cage where I can administer more Therapeutic Touch. She's hungry and scared but not too badly hurt. She'll make it. Not all of them do, but I have the honour of easing their passage with the modality in which I'm trained. Before I leave, I tend to other birds, and I calm a dog who's injured and terrified.

Since Therapeutic Touch works on the energy field of living things, it's not necessary to use physical contact (though it's desirable in some circumstances). This makes it immensely useful when treating animals that would be dangerous if handled. Therapeutic Touch can ease pain and it induces a state of deep relaxation. Animals are very sensitive to it and tend to respond well to the process. They will also let you know when they've had enough by moving away from you.

I arrive home to relax with my dogs, regular recipients of Therapeutic Touch along with our two cats. As evening descends, I hear a strange cry from one of the cats outside the front door. He has brought home a mouse - and it's still alive. I get him to drop it gently on the ground, and I take the cat inside the house where he can't cause further injury. I perform Therapeutic Touch on the mouse, which is breathing but not moving, even when I gently touch it to assess how badly injured it is. I do some more work on the mouse and step inside to get a towel for it, fearing the worst.

When I come back out, the mouse is upright. It peers at me quizzically before scurrying across the stone path and under the deck to a safe crevice. Apparently, a small dose of energy was all that was needed. It's been a good day for Therapeutic Touch.

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