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Healing Touch Energy Therapy
What is Healing Touch?
Healing Touch is an energy therapy in which practitioners consciously use their hands in a heart-centered and intentional way to support and facilitate physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health.Healing Touch is a biofield (the magnetic field around the body) therapy that is an energy-based approach to health and healing. Healing Touch uses touch to influence the human energy system, specifically the energy field that surrounds the body, and the energy centers that control the energy flow from the energy field to the physical body.
These non-invasive techniques utilize the hands to clear, energize, and balance the human and environmental energy fields, thus affecting physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and healing. It is based on a heart centered caring relationship in which the practitioner and client come together energetically to facilitate the client's health and healing. The goal of Healing Touch is to restore balance and harmony in the energy system placing the client in a position to self heal.
How does Energy Healing work?
There is still much mystery to how energy therapies work. Many theoretical frameworks for how energy medicine works exist in the literature of quantum physics and holistic healing.
Energy therapies focus on removing energy congestion that form in our energy fields (aura) and energy centers (chakras). Once these imbalances and disturbances are cleared, the energy channels resume their task of integrating the body, mind and soul to restore health and/or promote healing. It may also help prevent future issues by restoring balance to energy field disturbances, which could later result in illness if left unbalanced.
To gain a deeper understanding of the science supporting energy healing, please refer to the many books, journal articles and research findings written on this subject. Scientific evidence does exist that supports the premise that energy healing is effective. However, an experience is worth a thousand words, so the receiving of a Healing Touch treatment can do more to understand this phenomena than all the writings in the world.
What to Expect from a Healing Touch Treatment
Healing Touch is a gentle, biofield (energy field) therapy that often facilitates a deep sense of calm and relaxation in the Body-mind-spirit.
The treatment is typically administered while the client lies on a massage table with their clothes on. With your permission, the practitioner uses his/her hands to assess your biofield and proceeds to clear and balance it as needed using either off body touch (near body but no direct contact) or a gentle (still) touch over various areas of the body.
Testimonial from a mother:
We are doing better around here. Erin seems to be coming to terms with healthy eating habits. Anyway, I have to tell you that I am so grateful for knowing about the energy healing through you. Your work with Erin has made more difference to her than all the therapists and nutritionists combined. She really wants to continue to work with you on an ongoing basis.
Sarah Fiene is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner. She maintains a private Energy Healing practice in San Francisco and has successfully treated hundreds of clients.
My healing philosophy is quite simple -- it is about visiting a transcendent moment with another person to find hope. This hope often manifests as comfort, reassurance, fullness, understanding, love, peace and connection. My experiences have taught me that challenges are opportunities to grow and learn and Healing Touch is beautiful vehicle in which to put these principals to use, in a very real way.
Sarah Fiene, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner
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