Hands-on HealingHands-on Healing is so basic: touch is an essential human need. Instinctively, we know that touch is as vital to life as air and water. Without contact with another human being, an infant or child would wither and die. If you remember being sick when you were young, how much was medicine responsible for your cure, and what part did a loving mother or father, grandmother or grandfather play in restoring your body and spirit to health? We know from experience that it works, now let’s explore why it works and is so elegantly simple. The Sense of Touch Is Not Just Skin Deep.The integumentary system, as it is known, is the largest sensory organ, boasting a surface area of approximately 18 square feet and weighing 6 pounds. One square inch of skin has a thousand nerve endings — hence its phenomenal proprioceptive ability. It is these nerve endings that connect the outside world and our perceptions to our inner being - our spirit, and to the power of our limitless healing potential. You can also perceive fine shades of emotion through a gentle touch.
A healer’s hands, ears, eyes, sense of knowing, feelings – all become instruments for detecting disturbances in energy flow. This is analogous to palpation or the use of a stethoscope, otoscope or other tool in a physical exam. Once the energetic flow patterns are determined, more specific evaluation draws attention to the 7 major chakras, or energy centers.
(See diagram in the section on Brennan Healing Science).
The healer identifies the original issues which initiated the abnormal energy flow, possibly physical or emotional trauma. When this information is accessed in your subtle energy field, there is a resonance with that previous time, locked in space in the cells of your body. This "prison" is what might be causing you pain. Through touch, you might also re-experience the event momentarily while the awareness of it and clearing is occurring. It will not be long before you are feeling relief.Other benefits of this kind of healing include a decrease of chronic and acute pain. Hands-on work can also ameliorate post-operative pain and accelerate physical healing. Such techniques are now being used in some hospitals' operating rooms to stabilize the patient intra-operatively, not to mention relieving some of the stress experienced by surgeons and operating room staff. Numerous energy healing techniques can lessen emotional upset both in intensity and frequency. Read more about specific techniques for healing body-mind and spirit. |
