Healing Touch is a sacred healing art. It is based on the assumption that a person has both a physical body and a subtle body comprised of many layers or fields of energy, also described as the aura . By using a collection of energy-based treatment modalities that help access and treat this human energy system, the Healing Touch practitioner assists the client to self-heal. The goal of Healing Touch is to restore wholeness through harmony and balance. Body, mind, emotion, and spirit are touched through this therapeutic process, and each individual is empowered to participate fully in his or her healing journey.
What should I expect from a Healing Touch session?
Healing Touch often facilitates a deep sense of calm and relaxation in the body-mind-spirit. The practitioner uses light touch to assess your field and proceeds to clear and balance it as needed. Occasionally, you may experience an acceleration of the healing process and your symptoms may intensify for a brief time. When this happens, the imbalance is usually reduced.
Healing Touch for Mothers and Babies
Through Healing Touch, an expectant mother can form a strong connection with her baby. Communication between you and your child can be enhanced so that you will instinctively and intuitively know what to do during the laboring process to facilitate birth. Anxieties associated with the birth can also be reduced with Healing Touch.
After the birth, Healing Touch for new moms can help lower anxiety about breastfeeding and parenting in general. When the Healing Touch session includes mom and baby, sleeping and feeding patterns for the infant can be improved. Post-partum depression can also be helped with this modality in conjunction with a certified post-partum clinician.
In her Healing Touch practice, Helen also incorporates womb healing—inspired by the Rite of the Womb, a sacred ritual developed by Marcela Lobos and taught to Helen by Viviana Jaramillo, a healer. In the spirit of ancestral connectivity, womb healing is meant to honor and bless the space where many women hold memories, trauma, and their stories.
Healing Touch Can Help With:
Relief of discomfort Energizing the aura or energy field Restoration of homeostasis in the body Reduction of anxiety and stress associated with pregnancy Increased connection between mother and child
The information above is partly taken from the Healing Touch workbooks by Janet Mentgen, BSN, RN.