1. Unit 9 Healing Touch Dr. Love

2. FINAL PROJECT!

3. What is Healing Touch?

4. Healing Touch is a type of complementary therapy within the NCCAM category of Energy Therapies. It encompasses a number of non-invasive energy-based techniques in which trained practitioners working with intuition, skill, and a compassionate heart use their hands (using either direct contact or hands placed above the body) to clear, stimulate, align, and balance the energy field of another person.

5. What are the objectives of Healing Touch?

6. The Objective The goal of all Healing Touch sessions is to restore harmony to the energy system so that the patient is in an optimal state for healing to occur.

7. Energy Flow?? Practitioners of Healing Touch believe that human beings are composed of fields of energy which are dynamic and in constant interaction with the self, others, and the environment. The Healing Touch practitioner realigns the energy flow, which reactivates the patient's mind/body/spirit connection in order to eliminate blockages to self-healing.

8. Moving the Energy Healing Touch practitioners re-align a patient’s energy fields by placing their hands just above, or in some cases directly on the patient. Using their hands, a practitioner can find areas on the patient which need attention. This is done by sensing the patient’s subtle energy.

9. Can it be measured? These subtle energies cannot be detected by measuring devices. Qi, from Traditional Chinese Medicine, is an example of a subtle energy field.

10. Who started the Healing Touch Therapy?

11. Janet Mentgen R.N., B.S.N. Ms. Mentgen started the Healing Touch therapy program. This program drew from many healing techniques, such as shamanism.

12. Ms. Mentgen and her colleagues developed a specific sequence of techniques used to encounter, assess, and treat the different layers of a patients visible “aura.” The goal is to correct any imbalances and “smooth out” the energy field.

13. Healing Touch may incorporate the use of techniques such as channeling, and can make use of different colors and/or crystals.

14. Have you heard of “Healing Sequence?”

15. Healing Sequence Intake (Patient Assessment) Centering (Healer Preparation) Attuning to the Patient Treatment (Pre-treatment Energetic Assessment, Intervention, and Post-treatment Energetic Assessment) Grounding Evaluation, Feedback, and Treatment Plan Development

16. How much influence do you think that the practitioner’s intention has on patient outcome? Why do you think this?

17. The mental intention of the practitioner is very important, as they are directing their energy outward and into the patient they are treating. Practitioner’s Intent

18. Who practices Healing Touch?

19. The Healing Touch education program developed by Janet Mentgen and her colleagues in 1989 became a certificate program of the American Holistic Nurses Association in 1990. Certification of Healing Touch practitioners and instructors began in 1993. In response to the hundreds of classes offered throughout the country and the steady growth and interest in this modality by nurses and the public alike, a separate organization was developed to oversee the certification process. Healing Touch International, Inc. was established in 1996 to administer the Healing Touch Certification process. The organization is responsible for the International Standards of Practice and the Code of Ethics for practitioners, and focuses on research, special interest groups, and networking. www.healingtouchinternational.orgwww.healingtouchinternational.org

20. Training The program consists of 120 hours of a standardized curriculum offered by certified instructors. After completion of the classes, students begin a minimum one- year mentorship with a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and must document that they have provided 100 healing sessions to clients as part of the requirements toward certification. The program also emphasizes self-care and the development of the practitioner as a professional.

21. Acceptance Healing Touch International states that there have been over 100 studies done on Healing Touch. www.healingtouchinternational.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=vi ew&id=61&Itemid=178

22. How can we study something that we can’t measure? What aspects of Healing Touch can be measured?

23. Any Questions? Our Last SEMINAR!!!