Learn How Healing Touch can Alleviate Stress

Many of us suffer from stress...from family issues, work and/or health issues. Stress can manifest itself in so many ways but the most I hear about from clients are: headaches, back aches, muscle tension, anxiety, insomnia, joint pain, exhaustion and depression. Healing Touch can address these issues. As each person is an individual the treatment plan by the practitioner addresses that client's specific needs. Often I may have a client who thinks they feel, "pretty good," although their mental stress is high or they have a slight back ache, let's say. After the assessment and treatment using energy therapy they get up off the table and say, " I feel so much better," or "I'm so relaxed!" I then teach them self care techniques or give suggestions to help them live a healthier life. I'm not a doctor but have learned through life experiences and energy work some helpful practices. With the health care system in a state of flux it's good to have complementary treatments to help you feel better. Some of my clients go from having a stress level of 10+ to a 0-1 in a Healing Touch session. Without stress good health can be maintained.

Learn How Healing Touch can Support Cancer Patients

When a person has cancer it is so important to keep the chakras balanced and the energy field flowing. Having a compromised chakra or chakras inhibits optimum wellness. That is true of any illness.

Many of the chakras sit on meridians which are the highways of energy. It's vital that these highways be kept open and flowing. Rosalyn Bruyere, an internationally known healer and clairvoyant states that the feet, knees, hips, shoulders and hands are the "feeder system of the body. We live in a force field and our feet and knees are the first two places that energy enters the body."1 The Healing Touch practitioner addresses the chakras in the feet and knees as well as all of the chakras in the energy system. She works to clear, balance and support the energy field as well.

If cancer patients are receiving chemotherapy and radiation there are side effects left in the chakra and energy field systems. The healer works to remove the pollutants and toxins left by these therapies. But Healing Touch doesn't stop there. Healers work on the tumor or the cancerous part of the body energetically as well. Chemo and radiation can lower the vibration of the body so the healer works to "raise the energy level of the whole unit." Care must be given to keep the energy high long enough to produce a new set healthy cells.2 When the energy field and chakras are open and flowing, free of toxins, the person's natural healing systems can regenerate. But it's important also to continue energy treatments once the person is in remission to keep the cells vibrating at a high level. To contact Barbara for a Healing Touch treatment in the Cincinnati area
go to www.healingtouchoncall.com or call 513-254-3844 for more information.

Bruyere, Rosalyn. Wheels of Light. 1994. pp 194-195.





The Healing Touch practitioner provides the client with techniques that addresses this condition.

How using self care techniques supports the energy field between session

Self care is so important for people who receive complementary modalities such as Healing Touch and/or Reiki. After a typical session I may teach the client how to do a Self Chakra Connection, Ultrasound, Hands in Motion or Pain Drain. I have found that those clients who actually use the techniques at home between sessions support their energy field much better than those that do not. It's my opinion that the fact that the client is spending between 20-25 minutes quietly focusing on the technique brings the mind, body and spirit together. It's a form of meditation which is so beneficial not only the energy field but the total person. To learn more about Healing Touch or to contact me please visit my website: www.healingtouchoncall.com

How to prevent Insomnia with Healing Touch

Sometimes, like a lot of people, I suffer from insomnia. Healing Touch can and will help. Although I am not a doctor I have learned through trial and error what works and what doesn't in getting a good night's sleep. Two major things affect one's ability to sleep well: food/drink and activity. In regard to food and beverages caffeine is a major culprit in disturbing one's sleep patterns. If you're a person who cannot sleep try cutting way back on your caffeine intake for 2 weeks. This includes caffeinated coffee, tea and chocolate. If you are drinking 3 cups of coffee or tea a day try cutting back to one cup in the morning. Taking in caffeine after 1:00 pm may impinge on your ability to get a good night's rest. Try the "Great Experiment" as I like to call it for 2 weeks. If you're up for it, keep a journal noting what caffeinated food/drink you've had that day and the quality of your sleep. Try it!

Activities like late night computer work, TV or anything that serves to keep your mind actively engaged in wakefulness will impede your ability to fall asleep. If you want to be asleep by 10:30 to 11:00 PM turn the TV and computer off at 10:00 PM and begin a ritual that will tell your body that it's about to go to sleep: get your jammies on, deep breathe for five minutes, listen to relaxing music and go over the day's events. If something is bothering you write it in a journal and get it OUT of your head. If there is something you need to take action on write that in your journal too. That way you've begun the process of emptying your mind of unwanted details. And you will not forget the next day because you've written them down.

The last and very important reason why a lot of us suffer from insomnia is that the endocrine system with all the glands in the brain including the amagdala, hypothalamus, pituitary and pineal glands work together to relax and produce melatonin, the substance that helps us sleep. Caffeine will affect these glands directly so that is the reason to cut it out of or greatly reduce your intake. The Mind Clearing technique works to relax the Limbic system and allow sleep to happen. So if you have insomnia curb your intake of caffeine, watch your activity level and get some help with Healing Touch!

A client who suffers from high stress was finding that she was having trouble sleeping. That's the last thing she wanted after a full day of work! We began with an update interview, followed it with the energy assessment. Using the Healing Touch techniques to address that client's energy needs, her the quality and length of her night's sleep has greatly improved.

Pets are Showing up in Healing Touch sessions!

During my last three Healing Touch sessions in which I've provided Healing Touch to clients their pets have shown up! Now, I don't mean their physical body, I'm talking about their spirit bodies. Take for instance, yesterday, I had a client on the table and we were well into the session. Suddenly, in mind's eye, I saw 2 dogs: one light brown and larger than the second dog. The other was black and smaller. Both had a lot of energy! The larger put his head on the table as if to ask, "What's going on with Mommy?" Both were very curious and wanted to make sure their mom was OK. So I communicated to them telepathically that Mom was OK, that she just needed to relax and let go of some pain. I then suggested they lay down in the cozy corner by the wall. After a few minutes they settled down. When the session was over I told my client that 2 dogs showed up and described them. She then took out her Evo phone and pulled up some pictures of her dogs and told me about them both. They looked exactly how I had seen them! Now these dogs are young, very much alive and living at her home. I was astonished by the fact that they followed her in their spirit form to make sure she was OK. I'm finding that dogs are either coming with their owner or showing up once the session has begun. Perhaps this has happened before in sessions and I am just now attuned to them showing up.

Another deceased dog, Callie, showed up at another session. I knew this dog well and when I saw her I just teared up. Here she was faithfully keeping her owner company.

I've concluded that whether an animal is alive or deceased life, still goes on for them (and us too!) and they carry on being our companions. Being able to see them in spirit form seems like a step forward in my own development and journey as a Healing Touch Practitioner. And I am very excited about it!

Healing Touch and Gardening

Yesterday I was scheduled to work at the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA). I arrived at 9:00 a.m. for my time there. It was sunny and about 75 out. I dressed in long brown pants, a long sleeved shirt, pink work gloves and a straw hat. I had my water bottle too. I wanted to do some light work but as fate would have it I was assigned pulling "pig" weeds. I didn't know weeds had categories such as "pig." That thought I kept to myself. Anyways, I began pulling them out around the field tomato plants and in the beginning they weren't hard at all. Someone else had apparently weeded them before. But as I rounded the row I saw these monstrous pig weeds way down the line. "Oh no" I thought. I was already hot and sweaty and had just been working for about 15 minutes. "I can do this!" I thought. But pulling those weeds took all of my energy. I think it would have been great for 2 strong and well oiled muscle men....one to pull and the other to catch the first man as he fell backward yanking the weed out by it's roots! Sooooo I pulled down the line and got to this clump of weeds that had stems the size of corn stalks! So I yanked and I yanked and I yanked until half the stalk ripped off. "Well, I thought, at lease they won't be tall but they will come back stronger most likely. I figured that wasn't my problem. I was done with these babies.

I get home and I am already feeling the pain. My knee began to throb and my right hand hurt as well. I iced my knee and hand but also used a Healing Touch technique called, "ultrasound" in order to break up the congestion in my energy field that I knew had formed from the exertion and stress of weed pulling. I think it worked. This morning my neither leg or hand hurt. If I turn my hand in a certain position I get a twinge but nothing like yesterday. Those weeds didn't conquer me. I won the battle!

How Healing Touch can decrease Pain caused by Trauma

I've just begun to work with a gentlemen that has experienced a serious trauma by being hit by a drunk driver. "Tom" has several broken bones, a bruised spinal cord, had a blood clot, a deep bed sore and a lot of PAIN. In talking with his wife before the Healing Touch session she told me that Tom is on several prescriptions one of which is for pain. He had been on morphine but is being weaned off slowly. Even with the meds Tom sleep patterns have been erratic at best. Sleep is so very important because without it muscles tense up which constricts circulation. When circulation is constricted enzymes and vital nutrients cannot be transported to the cells of the body. Without these enzymes and nutrients healing cannot occur. Sleep is important!

I had been accompanied by a fellow healer. When we arrived at the rehab facility Tom was lying in bed. He had had a pain pill so as he ate I explained what Healing Touch encompassed. He was willing to try it. As he relaxed my friend and I assessed his energy field and chakras. The field was not centered from head to toe, side to side nor from top to bottom.
Noting this we then began our work waiting to assess the chakras until after the field was back on his body. When we completed the Chakra Connection I checked the field and it was back and centered on Tom's body. The energy field is significant for one's health and vitality. It's can be compared to the earth's gravity field. Without gravity (and other factors, of course) life as we know it may not exist. After the Chakra Connection the major energy centers (chakras) were flowing. We then addressed his pain in various parts of his body. During this time Tom drifted in and out of consciousness. We provided him with another technique called the "Chakra Spread" which helps for major transitions and traumas. When we finished the hour long session Tom thanked us for visiting him.

After the session my friend, Tom's wife and I talked about the techniques we used and showed her how she could do some of the during the week. She was so grateful that we had come and asked us back the next week. About 2 days after our visit I called her and asked how Tom was doing. She told me that Tom had a full night sleep and woke up in good spirits! I was grateful for her gratitude but also because Tom had shown signs of improvement. Trauma can be a long journey full of ups and downs but I believe Healing Touch can support that journey. Healing Touch works over time so hopefully we'll be able to return and keep the momentum going.

Using Healing Touch for Ill Animals

My dog may have inflamatory bowel disease according to his vet. He had all the symptoms: vomiting, explosive diarrhea, edema, coughing, and lethargy. She said that his small or large intestine or possibly even his colon was not processing fats adequately and leaking them into his system. It may be a parasite or bacteria. She tested him for cancer cells and that test showed no cancer, thank God! But he now is on Prednisone to control all of these symptoms. To support him through this condition I have been providing him with Healing Touch. That and a very bland diet seem to be helping. I use techniques called, Vibrational Grooming and The Chakra Connection. These are specifically developed for animals by Carol Komitor, creator of Healing Touch for Animals.

In Vibrational Grooming, I ground myself and connect with the Higher Powers/God. I approach him cautiously and ask if he'd like Healing Touch. If he starts prancing around or seems not to want to be still I wait until he calms down. Then I mentally intend that a little bit of energy is coming from my hand chakras. Since he's a small dog I don't want to overwhelm him with the same amount of energy I would use on humans. I've tried that and it didn't work! Anyways, with a small amount of energy coming from my hands, I run my hands over him as I would if I were brushing him. It's fast and gets the entire body: head, neck, legs, torso, back and tail. Sometimes I go over the same areas which is OK. He really seems to enjoy it! He moves around as if he were saying, "more, more." Then, I may do the Chakra Connection then or wait awhile.

The Chakra Connection for animals is slightly different than I use for humans. The hand placements are different for the heart, third eye and throat chakras. This technique really calms him. He's seems to be gaining back his energy, no longer has, vomiting, diarrhea, or coughing. I hope that he can get off the medication but in the meantime I notice that he seems to feel a lot better. Just like his human counterpart, seemingly chronic conditions can be supported with Healing Touch.

Aromatherapy and Healing Touch

A couple of weeks ago I attended a Roller Girls derby. I was gung ho for the home team and that means I usually scream most
of the game. Screaming has it's consequences, however. Later that night I noticed that the right side of my throat was beginning to feel sore and it was extending up into my right ear. Ugh! I didn't want to have a sore throat after I had so much fun. Soooo I began to do a Healing Touch technique in the car on the way home called: "ultrasound" on the right side of my throat. I followed up with "Hands in Motion" sweep away the congested energy. I did this over and over while in the car. Once I got home I did the techniques together again. In addition I used an essential oil called, "Theives." A friend has been studying aromatherapy and suggested that when I feel a cold or sore throat forming, I should put a drop of the oil in the palm of my hand. Then with the index finger of the other hand I was to take a little of this oil and put in on my tongue. It doesn't taste bad at all, just different from anything I'm familiar with. The oil will mix with the saliva and get into the system that way. You are to wait a minute then take a bit more oil on the index finger and again place it on the tongue. Wait another minute. Do this treatment another eight times. Eventually you will need to swallow and that is OK. After the Theives oil treatment I did more Ultrasound and Hands in Motion. I wasn't sure what would happen.

I woke up the next morning without a sore throat or any kind of pain in my ear! I was as surprised as anyone! It was great knowing that there are holistic treatments that a person can use before tramping out to their doctor. I've used the Theives oil
several more times when I've felt colds coming on and in each case they didn't form. I've got my Theives oil in a safe place and will take it when traveling. These two modalities: Healing Touch and Aromatherapy work extremely well together!

Rest after Healing Touch

I had a wonderful experience receiving Healing Touch a couple of weeks ago. A friend and I usually get together once or twice a month to give a session to one another. Last time I received I went and worked out doing strength training and cardio stuff soon afterward. Not a good thing to do. I learned the hard way that I need to wait at least a day if not longer to go work out. Another practitioner friend suggested that you treat a Healing Touch session (or Reiki, acupuncture or other energy therapy) like surgery. You'd be careful and rest not doing anything strenuous. During and after the session the energy is clearing any congestion and balancing the energy field. The beneficial effects of the session work over time so resting is the optimal thing to do. You can take a relaxing walk but nothing heavy duty. As I said I learned the hard way because I did not allow the energy to do it's job so to speak and I ended up achy and not feeling well. Soooo next time I receive Healing Touch I will take it easy.

Healing Touch and Transitions

Healing Touch is a comforting modality to experience when life has us going through major transitions. I'm talking about
divorce, job loss, illness, unemployment, death of a loved one, birth of a baby, or a move to another home. These are just some of the transitions we may go through in our lifetime. They can be very challenging times when the support of energy therapy is just the thing to get us through it. I've had clients that have been through transitions and I am happy to do my part to support their wellness.

When a client comes to me for Healing Touch and I am aware of their life changing event I begin with several questions to determine what their mental-emotional, physical and / or spiritual needs may be. I am not a doctor and do not diagnose. I do assess their energy field as I've been instructed to do. Through the knowledge and experience I have gained over the 9+ years I've been providing Healing Touch I can use the techniques I've learned and with which I have seen results. What I'm talking about might be a lessening of emotional stress, a sense of peace and relaxation, a reduction of pain and possibly new insights on how to handle the problems being faced. A client I've seen has experienced a major transition and she has told me that when she comes for Healing Touch she feels so loved in that hour. When a person has that sense of feeling secure, safe and loved as did my client, great things happen! As I've stated before the reduction of stress and a feeling of relaxation and peace is usually one of the goals of the Healing Touch session.... especially for major life transitions. So if you find yourself overwhelmed find a good Healing Touch practitioner and give yourself a gift. . . an hour that may change your perspective and give you the peace you seek.

Giving and Getting Healing Touch

A friend gave me Healing Touch the other day. It was so relaxing that I was definitely in an altered state ~ probably pretty close to sleep. I can remember dreaming and sort of waking up when she changed her hand positions. I've been dealing with
sciatica nerve pain, and a sore knee. After the treatment I literally had no aches or pains. It was wonderful because you know this person, this Healing Touch Practitioner has your highest good in mind and really takes good care of you while your in her care. I felt safe and loved. Ahhhhh! Then I provided her with Healing Touch. She had a variety of aches and pains from working hard at her job and the stress that comes with it. I invoke the healing angels and God's light We each do what works for us. I had her highest good in mind and was in a meditative state as I provided several techniques to address her problems. When the healing was complete we both shared our experiences with each other. I was set for the day : )

Healing Touch and Polio

A few years ago I met another Healing Touch student who had polio as a teenager. At the time I practiced Healing Touch with her she was in her late 50's at least. She mentioned that she still had some residual effects of polio and she found that if she gave herself daily self care with Healing Touch, specifically, the Chakra Connection, that she could walk without problems for the day. She faithfully did this ritual every morning. Remembering our conversations, I decided to give myself the time every morning to tune up with the Chakra Connection. It's an easy technique where you place the palms of your hands on all the joints of the body. You begin at the "palm" of the foot and work your way up one leg, the other, hips, the first 4 centers in the center of the body, arms, shoulders and then the last 3 center chakras. The idea is to get the energy flowing to all of the muscles, bones etc between these joints and chakras. I know it works because with the sports injury to my knee hurting for whatever reason, I give myself the Chakra Connection and the pain disipates. It's great!

Healing Touch and Anger

I had a unique experience last week. I was at the Hospice in- patient-unit and was providing Healing Touch to patients there. I was going around with another practitioner when we noticed a patient in his room with his blanket over his head. I wasn't quite sure what was wrong, if anything, so I asked one of the nurses. She told me that he was "angry." Sometimes I run into patients who are angry at the fact that they may be dying or in pain. We weren't sure why "Mr. Doe" was angry but we thought that Healing Touch might help. The nurses went in the room and asked the patient if he would like to try some "Healing Touch." He popped his head out from under the blanket and said, "Oh, I guess that'd be alright." We told him to just relax and began our assessment. There was an area of intense congestion in the energy field over the sacral and solar plexus chakras. The other practitioner and I felt it with our hands. The energy felt like a dense area of tingling and prickliness. When we gave him the Chakra Connection we held our hands high over these areas until the tingling began to dissipate. It didn't totally release. But we moved on to other chakras thinking that the energy would even out. That's what it did. We continued on with the Connection and began Magnetic Clearing. His energy field felt more clear when we completed our passes.

Of special note is that the sacral chakra is the chakra of the emotions. I wasn't surprised that Mr. Doe was feeling intense anger because when congestion occurs in the sacral chakra the energy doesn't flow and emotions can get pent up. Hopefully he felt a sense of relief when we our session was done. Mr. Doe had severe hearing loss so to have a conversation with him was difficult. He may have had some dementia as well. Perhaps next time we see him he'll be feeling better. However, with this intense emotional block it may take several sessions of Healing Touch to release it and reenergize it.

Healing Touch and Cuts

As I was exercising today on a stationary bike I noticed that I cut my right ring finger. I don't remember how it happened! It was bleeding profusely and as I looked at it further I saw that there was a tear in the skin. I stopped riding and got a band aide from one of the professionals on the fitness floor. I wrapped my finger with the idea that the pressure of the band aide may stop the bleeding. I cleaned off the bike I had been using with disinfectant and decided to go use an elliptical machine. I had used it many times before and was confident that I wouldn't get injured using it. I had gotten cut on this bike a couple of weeks ago and didn't want to take another chance.

As I restarted my workout on the ellipical machine I noticed that even with the band aide on the tear was still bleeding.

"I'll have to change this bandage but not now, I want to workout," I thought to myself.

So I began using techniques I had learned in one of my Healing Touch classes called, "lasering and "hands in motion." With my left thumb, index and third fingers together I imagined a laser light coming from the jointure of the three fingers. I rotated this light over the cut in a random motion. This action was to break up the congestion that had formed in the energy field around the cut. I then used my left hand to move the congestion away from the finger with a cupping motion. I repeated this two more times. Then I just wrapped my left hand around my finger sending healing energy. I held it for about 3 minutes. I noticed that the bleeding had stopped so I continued on with my aerobic exercise. When 30 minutes were up, I washed my hands in the restroom. Even though the cut was still open it was no longer bleeding nor was it painful. I wrapped a new band aide around it and went on to my strength training regime.

As I'm looking at my cut now several hours later, the bleeding has stopped completely and there's not one bit of discomfort. I
am amazed at this because a few weeks ago I had cut my finger in the same way. (That bike is a menace to be dealt with!) It bled off and on every time I bumped it against something. That caused pain and a burning sensation which was very uncomfortable. I'm not saying my cut is completely healed but it's well on it's way and it is not bothering me. Although it's not a major health issue ~ one more annoying than anything else it still is worthy of my attention and help.

Healing Touch and Animals

Back in September I participated in the Level 1 Healing Touch for Animals weekend workshop. I brought my dog with me the first day because the needed, "subjects." I was only too happy to bring Dakota because he's intelligent, friendly and loves people. When I arrived there were three other dogs present and they were all BIG! I felt a little intimidated when the dogs came around me and judging by Dakota's behavior he was too. But when the speaker began talking the dogs settled down. What I learned was so very interesting to me. Animals have energy fields around them just like we do! Horses have energy fields as big as the property on which they live. They are very sensitive indeed. Cats also have a very large energy field and are very protective of their homes. Many dogs, on the other hand, have energy fields centered around their bodies much like their humans.

I learned that it is very important to approach an animal cautiously and ask quietly if it's OK to come near. You can tell by their body language if it's OK. If the animal is snarls or backs away then it is not OK.

Healing Touch in the hospital

I volunteered at the hospital yesterday. Sometimes I force myself to go because of any number of reasons. But being received so wonderfully by a patient there just made my day. I had met a woman in the Endoscopy department last week while she was waiting for a procedure. Her doctor was behind schedule and she was a bit nervous. I asked if she wanted to receive Healing Touch and after I explained what it was, she gratefully accepted. When I had completed several techniques such as the Magnetic Clearing and Chakra Connection, she began to tell me about her life, her family and friends. It was wonderful making that connection with her. She had experienced many events in her life: challenging and joyful. It was great to be there to listen and affirm her feelings. I let go of my agenda and just listened as it seemed to be what she needed. We had made a connection and that is one of the best things that can happen. It's a privilege to hear a slice of life as another person tells it and to know you are helping her process emotions. Before I left her I asked if she'd like Healing Touch after her surgery which was on January 20th. She said that she would.

I called her before I went over to the hospital as I wanted to be certain that she remembered me and still desired Healing Touch. She seemed hesitant to ask me to come over but I assured her that I had the time. When I arrived she was sitting up in her chair and had just finished lunch. The floor was very quiet. We chatted for awhile and then I assessed her energy field. She and I talked about her symptoms after surgery. I taylored my approach to those symptoms using Healing Touch techniques learned over the years. When I was done she looked up at me and said, "This is sacred work."