The Power of Healing

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The Power of Healing

There is always the right way to do something, then of course, there the other way. According to Webster's Ninth New College Dictionary, to be unconventional means to be out of the ordinary, not lacking originality or individuality. Therapeutic touch is unconventional. It is a method of healing using energy.

Therapeutic Touch (TT) is the practice of facilitating healing using Universal healing energy. It has been shown to help the sick or hurt, calm the feared and comfort those who need comfort. Because of it's different approach to helping restore health rather than the "normal" taking a pill, TT has not been readily accepted by many medical doctors. In A Doctor's guide To Therapeutic Touch, author Susan wager, M.D. states that Therputic Touch is different then normal medical procedures. "In evaluating any form of healing, weather conventional medicine or unconventional therapies we make basic assumptions about the healing process"(24)

Therapeutic Touch is done by concentrating one's energy, and directing this focused energy through one's hands to a person or animal. Physical contact is not always necessary, but sometimes is appropriate.

My mother, Barbara Cull-Wilby, PhD., R.N., has studied practiced and lived TT since 1987. When I was five years old, my family and I Lived in Rochester, New York. I wasn't accident prone, but I wasn't without adventure. While playing with friends, outside one day, I decided to attempt a flying act off my picnic table. Not long after my miraculous take off my forehead found it's way to the table's sharp edge. This of course resulted in a big gouge in my forehead with quite a bit of blood. I ran screaming into the house to find my mother, who had an...

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...s TT could bring it from zero to hero in less than a week. The media could take this unconventional idea and turn it into a familiar household routine.

Therapeutic Touch is a good way to help others. It is different, but it does work. Trying new things never killed anybody. It is unfair for it to be labeled unconventional just because it expresses new and different ideas about healing. Next time you come across something that seems a little odd and might be a little silly, take a deep breath, close your eyes, feel the energy of everything around and inside you, and than decide weather or not it's worth your time. You never know it could save your life.

Work Cited

Cull-Wilby, Barbara, PhD, R.N. Therapeutic Touch pamphlet, Wholecare

Wager, Susan, M.D. A Doctor's guide to Therapeutic Touch,

New York, 1996

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