A Nurturing Approach to Wellness
Healing Touch
A newborn baby is soothed with skin-to-skin contact, a person in distress appreciates a hug, and a touch on the shoulder is an easy way to show someone that you care. Though we rarely think about it, touch is an essential part of our lives and it can play an active role in our well being.
Like other energy therapies such as therapeutic touch and reiki, Healing Touch uses gentle contact and subtle hand movements to assist in channeling the body's innate ability to harmonize mind, body and spirit.
Healing Touch was created by Janet Mentgen, a Registered Nurse, who has used energy based therapies as part of her practice for almost 30 years. Janet and her colleagues developed a rigorous training program for nurses and other health care providers around the world and today Healing Touch is used in hospitals, community care, with palliative patients and in private practice.
Energy therapies can be used in conjunction with traditional medicine, other body-mind therapies such as massage, sound healing, biofeedback, etc or as a stand alone treatment.
What can Healing Touch do for you?
At Creative Paths we use Healing Touch to:
- Decrease pain
- Speed up post-operative recovery
- Improve mobility after surgery
- Provide symptom relief during or after chemotherapy
- Provide relaxation and a sense of peace for palliative patients
- Decrease anxiety and stress
- Strengthen the immune system
How it works
Healing Touch taps into our unseen but potent Life Force Energy. We are all energetic beings and although we are often unaware of it, we continuously interact with other people and the environment. Practitioners use the energetic interaction between themselves and their clients to strengthen the client's energy field and guide them on their healing journey. Many of the techniques used in Energy Healing are connected to Native American and Asian traditions that have been in use for thousands of years.
Dis-ease in the body, or an interruption or misalignment in our energy fields occurs with stress, injury, surgery, and trauma, whether physical, emotional or spiritual. These disruptions can last for minutes or years as we may unknowingly hang onto them for reasons we may not be aware of or unable to deal with at the time. As time progresses, other areas in our bodies may become affected and eventually we seek medical treatment.
Every person's journey is unique and we all come to complementary therapies for a variety of reasons. Each illness is there to teach us and assist us in our personal growth, and as we regain our health, the rewards can be enormous.
Healing Touch sessions
With energy therapies the practitioner centers and grounds themselves with an intention to be fully present for their client, to approach each person with calmness and compassion, allowing the client to achieve a healthy and harmonious balance of body, mind and spirit. Each person will have a unique experience influenced by their personal history and health status.
In a safe and trusting environment, the practitioner places their hands above or on the person in various positions or uses sweeping motions to achieve balance and alignment of the energy fields.
Each session lasts about one hour. We like to spend time at the beginning discussing why you are here and what you would like to achieve in the session and there is time at the end for reflection.