The Therapy of Touch

Today, the world of alternative medicine and therapeutic approaches are seen more and more as a way to overcome stress and disease that we did not have over fifty years ago. A few of these techniques are based on the idea that each person has their own energy and when that energy cannot flow freely throughout the body, the body will experience illness and pain. Therapeutic touch is when “laying on of hands” is done in a way to exchange energy from one person to another. With this exchange, the healthy person can energize the one sick or in pain and in this way helping to cure that person. There are four steps to therapeutic touch which begins with “centering” where a meditative process is done to align the healer with the patients energy. Then the “assessment” is done where the healer used her hand to detect the energy of the patient and hands are used in a way that removes excess or bad energy and the final step is when the healer actually transfers his or her own energy to the patient. This form of healing is more debated than others although it is a techniques that is still held in high regard by many of its practitioners and patents in the energy-related field.