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Healing Touch: Essential Energy Medicine for Yourself and Others
“This is a superb book! Your hands can be powerful tools for healing. While our ancestors knew this well, we have forgotten. Healing Touch is a wonderful guide for re-embracing your natural healing abilities. It shows you how to use your hands to bolster the energies that are at the foundation of health.”―Donna Eden, coauthor of Energy Medicine and Energy Medicine for Women
“ Healing Touch is an essential piece of health education that we’ve always needed, and it includes skills we need today more than ever. Dr. Hover-Kramer is the perfect expert to teach these methods.” ―Dr. David Gruder, integrative psychologist and author of The New IQ
“In this book, Dorothea opens the door to many interested people who would like to learn to use their hands and hearts to facilitate healing in themselves or others. Healing Touch is enjoyable and comprehensive in its presentation, and it provides a wealth of material to guide the reader in some of the basic practices of Healing Touch.”―Cynthia Hutchison DNSc, RN, MSN, HTCP/I, Director, Healing Touch Program
Healing Touch is one of the most accepted and widespread energy-healing modalities in the world. With more than a hundred hospitals in the US and Canada using energy medicine as part of their regular care, the number of people who have learned Healing Touch has surpassed 100,000, and several thousand have become certified practitioners. This practical guidebook is the first to give instruction in some of the foundational and easily learned methods in an introductory format. Presented by founding elder Dr. Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Healing Touch takes readers through 18 fundamental exercises for applying this scientifically validated energy medicine for yourself and others.
Starting with the theory and research behind it, Dr. Hover-Kramer proceeds to “give us a taste of HT compassion in action,” through case studies and practices that address such key arenas as emergencies, family relationships, self-care, life transitions great and small, and perhaps most importantly, the alleviation of physical discomfort and anxiety. Learn the preliminary yet critical steps of Centering and Grounding, Magnetic Passes to restore balance to the human vibrational matrix, Laser and Ultrasound for acute pain relief, special interventions for trauma release, and much more.
“ Healing Touch is an essential piece of health education that we’ve always needed, and it includes skills we need today more than ever. Dr. Hover-Kramer is the perfect expert to teach these methods.” ―Dr. David Gruder, integrative psychologist and author of The New IQ
“In this book, Dorothea opens the door to many interested people who would like to learn to use their hands and hearts to facilitate healing in themselves or others. Healing Touch is enjoyable and comprehensive in its presentation, and it provides a wealth of material to guide the reader in some of the basic practices of Healing Touch.”―Cynthia Hutchison DNSc, RN, MSN, HTCP/I, Director, Healing Touch Program
Healing Touch is one of the most accepted and widespread energy-healing modalities in the world. With more than a hundred hospitals in the US and Canada using energy medicine as part of their regular care, the number of people who have learned Healing Touch has surpassed 100,000, and several thousand have become certified practitioners. This practical guidebook is the first to give instruction in some of the foundational and easily learned methods in an introductory format. Presented by founding elder Dr. Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Healing Touch takes readers through 18 fundamental exercises for applying this scientifically validated energy medicine for yourself and others.
Starting with the theory and research behind it, Dr. Hover-Kramer proceeds to “give us a taste of HT compassion in action,” through case studies and practices that address such key arenas as emergencies, family relationships, self-care, life transitions great and small, and perhaps most importantly, the alleviation of physical discomfort and anxiety. Learn the preliminary yet critical steps of Centering and Grounding, Magnetic Passes to restore balance to the human vibrational matrix, Laser and Ultrasound for acute pain relief, special interventions for trauma release, and much more.
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264 pages, Paperback
First published September 28, 2011
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July 1, 2023
Non religious, yet acknowledging the holistic significance of spirituality. Dedicates a set of chapters to theory, science, and research supporting energy medicine.
September 23, 2011
Science, Compassion and Healing
Dorothea Hover-Kramer is both an extraordinary woman - she holds a Doctorate in Education, she is a Registered Nurse, a writer and teacher, the founding elder of Healing Touch, a co-founder of the International Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, a director of Behavioral Health Consultants and a professional psychotherapist - and an innovative healer. Some readers may see this book on the shelf and think 'ah, another loopy person performing magic for money', but nothing could be further from the truth. This gifted woman shares her field of Healing Touch in this book in a manner that makes the reader not only believe in the powers she addresses, but by the end of the book she teaches the reader how to utilize these powers not only to calm the life of the reader but to share this technique with family, friends, and others in need of care.
'Healing Touch', according to the explanations given in the books PR, 'is one of the most accepted and widespread energy-healing modalities in the world. With more than a hundred hospitals in the US and Canada using energy medicine as part of their regular care, the number of people who have learned Healing Touch has surpassed 100,000 and several thousand have become certified practitioners. This practical guidebook is the first to give instruction in some of the foundational and easily learned methods in an introductory format. Presented by founding elder Dr. Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Healing Touch takes readers through 18 fundamental exercises for applying this scientifically validated energy medicine for yourself and others.'
But in addition to this researched evidence, Dr. Hover-Kramer shares in her introduction the following words that define her approach to the reader and to the recipients of her shared knowledge: 'All of life is imbued with energy, the nonmaterial life force that is dramatically absent when life ends. Science is showing us that we humans are indeed energy beings with a vibrational field that communicates information within the physical body as well as within the creative mind. Allowing ourselves to sense the 'quiet light' within is a natural human potential. We can extend this inner light to express caring for others and to alleviate suffering.' After thoroughly discussing the energy fields that are within and without each of us, the good doctor then takes us through the steps in learning how to cleanse the spirit and the body with first setting the mind and energy state of the practitioner, then moving the stresses from the body with cleansing techniques, applying touch to areas in need of release of negative energy, embracing the chakras with meditation, and ultimately teaching the steps of a Healing Touch Sequence.
Dr. Hover-Kramer encourages the reader to participate in her lessons, knowing that only one who has experienced the Healing Touch can convincingly practice it on others. It is this inordinately warm sharing of concept and free offering of instruction that makes this book so memorable to read and so valuable to use. In a time when the compassion of the healing arts is being choked by the business and politics of medicine, this addendum to the relief of mental and physical suffering is a fine adjunct to the complete approach to patients - be those who are suffering from pain of disease, from post-operative pain, or simply the unspoken trauma of living in a world where such simple yet effective measures can offer a better life.
Grady Harp
Dorothea Hover-Kramer is both an extraordinary woman - she holds a Doctorate in Education, she is a Registered Nurse, a writer and teacher, the founding elder of Healing Touch, a co-founder of the International Association for Comprehensive Energy Psychology, a director of Behavioral Health Consultants and a professional psychotherapist - and an innovative healer. Some readers may see this book on the shelf and think 'ah, another loopy person performing magic for money', but nothing could be further from the truth. This gifted woman shares her field of Healing Touch in this book in a manner that makes the reader not only believe in the powers she addresses, but by the end of the book she teaches the reader how to utilize these powers not only to calm the life of the reader but to share this technique with family, friends, and others in need of care.
'Healing Touch', according to the explanations given in the books PR, 'is one of the most accepted and widespread energy-healing modalities in the world. With more than a hundred hospitals in the US and Canada using energy medicine as part of their regular care, the number of people who have learned Healing Touch has surpassed 100,000 and several thousand have become certified practitioners. This practical guidebook is the first to give instruction in some of the foundational and easily learned methods in an introductory format. Presented by founding elder Dr. Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Healing Touch takes readers through 18 fundamental exercises for applying this scientifically validated energy medicine for yourself and others.'
But in addition to this researched evidence, Dr. Hover-Kramer shares in her introduction the following words that define her approach to the reader and to the recipients of her shared knowledge: 'All of life is imbued with energy, the nonmaterial life force that is dramatically absent when life ends. Science is showing us that we humans are indeed energy beings with a vibrational field that communicates information within the physical body as well as within the creative mind. Allowing ourselves to sense the 'quiet light' within is a natural human potential. We can extend this inner light to express caring for others and to alleviate suffering.' After thoroughly discussing the energy fields that are within and without each of us, the good doctor then takes us through the steps in learning how to cleanse the spirit and the body with first setting the mind and energy state of the practitioner, then moving the stresses from the body with cleansing techniques, applying touch to areas in need of release of negative energy, embracing the chakras with meditation, and ultimately teaching the steps of a Healing Touch Sequence.
Dr. Hover-Kramer encourages the reader to participate in her lessons, knowing that only one who has experienced the Healing Touch can convincingly practice it on others. It is this inordinately warm sharing of concept and free offering of instruction that makes this book so memorable to read and so valuable to use. In a time when the compassion of the healing arts is being choked by the business and politics of medicine, this addendum to the relief of mental and physical suffering is a fine adjunct to the complete approach to patients - be those who are suffering from pain of disease, from post-operative pain, or simply the unspoken trauma of living in a world where such simple yet effective measures can offer a better life.
Grady Harp
May 29, 2012
This book was really interesting, and I enjoyed reading it. I had trouble reading some of the history stuff (but that's probably because I just don't have a lot of patience). I kept thinking "okay, I believe you, now show me how!
The instructions were rather clear, but I would have liked more drawings. I felt like the whole book was history and information--which is important--but that only a little bit of it was actually instructional. It would have been easier to read it if the information had been better mixed in to the instructional.
On a side-note, as a sci-fi/fantasy writer, this book makes an excellent inspiration/source for writing about the supernatural!
The instructions were rather clear, but I would have liked more drawings. I felt like the whole book was history and information--which is important--but that only a little bit of it was actually instructional. It would have been easier to read it if the information had been better mixed in to the instructional.
On a side-note, as a sci-fi/fantasy writer, this book makes an excellent inspiration/source for writing about the supernatural!
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