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The Healing Touch Therapy is a form of therapy which works in harmony with the standard traditional medical care. A form of spiritual healing, it is a lying on of hands which involve the entire body, spirit, and mind—areas which are beyond our own human intelligence. It recognizes a power beyond the limits of the human being, an acceptance and relationship with a specific spiritual guidance for the person in question. Today more than any other time, traditional nurses have joined hands with the Healing Touch therapy, finding it is a complementary medicine instead of an alternative medicine.

The policy of Healing Touch is considered a biofield therapy, using non-invasive techniques by utilizing the hands that not only clear, energize and balance the body but also the environmental energy fields. How it works is by changing the way a person thinks, by the removal of negative thinking and the disturbance of the energy field---all which are making the person sick. Healing Touch simply restores the sick individual's natural healthy energy field by resting practitioner's hands on the chakra energy centers of the body, as the patient listens to guided imagery. Other names for the Healing Touch is energy healing, long-distance healing, therapeutic touch, or spiritual healing.

Either way, it can fully influence a person's physical, emotional and spiritual health. Not a new thing to nursing, it began as a specific form of healing in the 1970s, offering classes in healing touch with conventional medical treatment. Those who are involved with this type of healing believe that the balances in the body can be restored, aiding in the healing process. With no physical touching of the body but moving the hands inches above the body, they can use their hands to rebalance the patient's life energy force.

Many individuals use this technique prior to surgery while in the hospital, with the practitioner moving from head to toe within the individual's energy field. After the surgery, the HT practitioner and the recovery room nurse are in the recovery room, with both monitoring the patient's heart rate and breathing as the practitioner works with the patient to bring harmony and balance into effect. Those who benefit the most from the Healing Touch are patients with pain, anxiety, general infections, and wounds. Many offer yoga which reduces stress and anxiety in the patient, with stress the cause of many physical ailments.

Cancer patients find their side effects of chemotherapy and radiation are reduced with applied Healing Touch, while stress is reduced in most individuals who receive HT. The immune system is strengthened by its application, which makes it excellent for individuals getting ready to enter surgery or those who have just come from surgery. HT nurses care for the whole patient/body, mind and spirit, obtaining these results as perioperative nurses.

There are many areas which are taught to the nurses and practitioners receiving training under the Healing Touch, such as chronic pain, spiritual distress, respiratory distress, impaired tissue integrity, acute and chronic conditions, and as interventions for magnetic clearing, chakra connection, spiral meditation, hopi techniques, chelation, etheric clearing, etheric vitality, full body connection, lymphatic drain, wound sealing, or mind clearing. Lisa Anselme, RN, HNC, CHTP/I, is Healing Touch's International Executive Director and Holistic Nurse Consultant for Integrative Health Care. Her organization's primary goal is to assist healthcare organizations into integrating Healing Touch onto their facility through her contact: htihosp@aol.com or (303) 989-7982.