HEALING TOUCH
Healing Touch is a program of non-invasive energy-based therapeutic approaches to stimulate and support healing. Physical touch is not necessary, though it is often open to nurses and other health care professionals. Healing is affected on physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. A variety of approaches can be used to assist a person toward wholeness, harmony, and balance. One treatment modality used by Healing Touch practitioners is Therapeutic Touch. Practitioners frequently use healing touch for relaxation, pain reduction, accelerated healing, alleviation of psychological stress, energizing the field, and enhancement of spiritual development. Healing Touch is believed to assist the support for the dying process as well. Healing Touch also initiates to the “healthy” enhanced well being, personal integration, comfort and peace. The goal of Healing Touch is to restore harmony and balance in the energy system to facilitate self-healing.