Healing Touch Benefits

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Amanda Keith
ANTH 301
Medicinal Concepts and Practices
Benefits of Healing Touch
Throughout history, energy-based and hands on healing practices have been found in many cultures around the world. These types of practices have been established in ancient Eastern healing practices. Healing Touch arose in the nursing filed in the late 1980s and is now used in many setting and situations, such as surgical, private practices and in pain centers. The practitioner and the patient together participate in the healing process. In 1994, the NIH Office of Alternative Medicine referred to the practice of healing touch as “biofield therapies” in which there “is no plausible biomedical explanation,” according to Anderson et al. Healing Touch is based on the idea that humans have a spiritual dimension in addition to the physical body and should also be acknowledged during healing (Anderson, J.G et al., 2011). …show more content…

A practitioner uses light touch in order to determine any imbalances, which is felt as a change in texture, temperature or vibration (Post-White, J. et al., 2003). When one is healthy, the energy field throughout the body is balanced, in which the energy flows evenly. However, psychological and physical symptoms can create imbalances of the energy (Anderson, J.G et al.,

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