Healing Touch therapy is a gentle energy-based therapy that emphasizes heart-centred care and compassionate healing intention.

The technique uses gentle, non-invasive touch to influence and restore harmony, energy, and balance to the mind, body and spirit. It is based on the premise that the human body is surrounded by an energy field and contains energy centres that control the energy flow from the energy field to the physical body.

By performing Healing Touch therapy, the body's energy levels become smooth and balanced. Many times, those receiving this therapy fall into a deep state of calm and fall asleep.

The Healing Touch practitioner and client create a partnership in facilitating health and healing. Healing Touch therapy complements conventional medicine and is used as part of an integrated healing program. It is often used to assist in the health assistance of cancer patients and those with other illnesses. Healing touch therapy has also been helpful in treating patients of trauma therapy and drug treatment.

Research suggests that Healing Touch therapy is beneficial in promoting relaxation, reducing pain, enhancing immune function, and managing stress. Many people describe an increased sense of well-being after their session. The main goal of this therapy is to promote self-healing by restoring balance to the energy field in the body through addressing emotional turmoil.

Who Can Benefit From Healing Touch Therapy?

This type of therapy has benefited numerous groups of people, ranging from those in trauma treatment centres, to those in depression treatment facilities. Specific examples include people with:

• Anxiety
• Depression
• Headaches
• Cancer
• Arthritis
• Back and neck pain
• Bone fractures
• Fibromyalgia

Benefits of Healing Touch Therapy

Various benefits of healing touch therapy include:

• Increased relaxation
• Stress reduction
• Lower anxiety levels
• Decreased chance for severe depression
• Enhancement of the immune system
• Assistance in developing personal well-being
• Assistance in trauma recovery for those with suppressed emotional trauma
• Assistance to those in drug treatment
• Decreased need for pain medication
• Treatment of pain and sickness
• Benefits to the joints, muscles and nervous system
• Faster recovery from surgery and chemotherapy
• Better circulation of the blood
• Furthered spiritual connection
• Peace given to those in the dying process