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By (author) Krieger Dolores

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Whether it be to relieve a headache, calm a muscle spasm, soothe a crying baby, or alleviate your own abdominal cramps. The Therapeutic Touch shows you how you can use your hands to help or to heal someone who is sick.
By explaining what happens during the four different stages of therapeutic touching. Dr. Krieger shows you how to detect when a person is sick, pinpoint where the pain is, and stimulate the recuperative powers of the sick person. With accurate s of the changes that take place in body temperature, levels of consciousness, and physiology during this intense interaction, this book helps you interpret your healing experience and get the most meaning from it.
The Therapeutic Touch recaptures a simple, ancient mode of healing and shows how you can now become on integral part of your own or someone else”s healing process.

Table of contents:

Contents

PREFACE

1 INTRODUCTION

2 HEALING AS A NATURAL POTENTIAL

3 THE LABORATORY OF THE SELF

4 CENTERING: THE “EFFORTLESS EFFORT”

5 THE ASSESSMENT: APPRECIATION OF THE FIELD CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIVIDUAL HEALEE

6 “UNRUFFLING” THE FIELD

7 DIRECTING AND MODULATING THE TRANSFER OF HUMAN ENERGY

8 THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

9 THE SYMBOLIC EXPERIENCE

10 THE PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

11 YOU CAN HELP, YOU CAN HEAL

APPENDIX I: EXPERIENTIAL CRITERIA DURING THERAPEUTIC TOUCH

APPENDIX II: THE TWO ENDPOINTS OF AN EEG CONTINUUM OF MEDITATION: ALPHA/THETA AND FAST BETA

INDEX

Biographical note:

Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN, a professor of nursing at New York University, is noted for her study and development of therapeutic touch and has been explaining her healing techniques on radio and television throughout the country, in workshops, and in many published articles.

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Chapter 1

Introduction

There are moments powerfully laden with thought which compress time a hundredfold. Such compression can happen with a glimpse of a most inconsequential gesture, as it did to me one midsummer morning quite recently. The gesture caught my eye as I leaned against a tree while surveying seven former students, each of whom was teaching a small cluster of workshop participants how to do Therapeutic Touch, a method (derived from the laying-on of hands) of using the hands to direct human energies to help or heal someone who is ill. At that particular moment each of the teachers was using her hands in an attempt to translate to her group something of the interior experience one has when playing the role of healer. As I scanned the seven group teachers, these gestures froze in my mind as a progression of living statues, and for a moment I felt a sense of déjà vu. Each gesture was intimately known to me; each gesture called to mind an aspect of the working out from within of the highly personalized human interaction that is the healing act.

By turning my head slightly, I could see Mary and her group sitting on a log pile at the campfire site in the maple grove where we all were. She was teaching them how to center, how to reach deeply within, become aware of the facets of one”s self, and then effortlessly bring those facets into alignment with each other. Deeper within the woods, Eloise was also teaching her group to center. She was talking about the importance of knowing and recognizing one”s self in order to avoid the pitfall of mistaking all one”s own problems for those of the healee”s (patient”s), or vice versa. In a clearing in the grove, Nancy was discussing the need to learn to put self aside an