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Therapeutic Touch

by Dolores Krieger

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Whether it be to relieve a headache, calm a muscle spasm, soothe a crying baby, or alleviate your own abdominal cramps. The Therapeutic Touch shows you how you can use your hands to help or to heal someone who is sick.

By explaining what happens during the four different stages of therapeutic touching. Dr. Krieger shows you how to detect when a person is sick, pinpoint where the pain is, and stimulate the recuperative powers of the sick person. With accurate descriptions of the changes that take place in body temperature, levels of consciousness, and physiology during this intense interaction, this book helps you interpret your healing experience and get the most meaning from it.

The Therapeutic Touch recaptures a simple, ancient mode of healing and shows how you can now become on integral part of your own or someone else's healing process.

Synopsis:

Whether it be to relieve a headache, calm a muscle spasm, soothe a crying baby, or alleviate your own abdominal cramps. The Therapeutic Touch shows you how you can use your hands to help or to heal someone who is sick.

By explaining what happens during the four different stages of therapeutic touching. Dr. Krieger shows you how to detect when a person is sick, pinpoint where the pain is, and stimulate the recuperative powers of the sick person. With accurate descriptions of the changes that take place in body temperature, levels of consciousness, and physiology during this intense interaction, this book helps you interpret your healing experience and get the most meaning from it.

The Therapeutic Touch recaptures a simple, ancient mode of healing and shows how you can now become on integral part of your own or someone else's healing process.

About the Author

Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., a professor of nursing at New York University, is noted for her study and development of therapeutic touch and has been explaining her healing techniques on radio and television throughout the country, in workshops, and in many published articles.

Table of Contents

Contents

PREFACE 1 INTRODUCTION

2 HEALING AS A NATURAL POTENTIAL

3 THE LABORATORY OF THE SELF

4 CENTERING: THE "EFFORTLESS EFFORT"

5 THE ASSESSMENT: APPRECIATION OF THE FIELD CHARACTERISTICS OF THE INDIVIDUAL HEALEE

6 "UNRUFFLING" THE FIELD

7 DIRECTING AND MODULATING THE TRANSFER OF HUMAN ENERGY

8 THE PERSONAL EXPERIENCE

9 THE SYMBOLIC EXPERIENCE

10 THE PRACTICAL EXPERIENCE

11 YOU CAN HELP, YOU CAN HEAL

APPENDIX I: EXPERIENTIAL CRITERIA DURING THERAPEUTIC TOUCH

APPENDIX II: THE TWO ENDPOINTS OF AN EEG CONTINUUM OF MEDITATION: ALPHA/THETA AND FAST BETA

INDEX

Product Details

ISBN:
9780671765378
Author:
Krieger, Dolores
Author:
Krieger
Publisher:
Touchstone Books
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Alternative Therapies
Subject:
Alternative medicine
Subject:
New Age
Subject:
Mental healing
Subject:
Therapeutics
Subject:
Vital force
Subject:
Vital force -- Therapeutic use. .
Subject:
Therapeutic Touch.
Subject:
Psychotherapy - General
Subject:
General Body, Mind and Spirit
Subject:
Health and Medicine-Alternative
Copyright:
Edition Number:
1st Fireside ed.
Edition Description:
B102
Series Volume:
1700
Publication Date:
May 1979
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
General/trade
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
180
Dimensions:
9 x 6 in 10.01 oz

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"Synopsis" by , Whether it be to relieve a headache, calm a muscle spasm, soothe a crying baby, or alleviate your own abdominal cramps. The Therapeutic Touch shows you how you can use your hands to help or to heal someone who is sick.

By explaining what happens during the four different stages of therapeutic touching. Dr. Krieger shows you how to detect when a person is sick, pinpoint where the pain is, and stimulate the recuperative powers of the sick person. With accurate descriptions of the changes that take place in body temperature, levels of consciousness, and physiology during this intense interaction, this book helps you interpret your healing experience and get the most meaning from it.

The Therapeutic Touch recaptures a simple, ancient mode of healing and shows how you can now become on integral part of your own or someone else's healing process.

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