The Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help or to Heal [Paperback]

Dolores Krieger (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 1, 1979

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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Book Description

In the early 1970s, registered nurse Dolores Krieger knew intuitively that she and her fellow nurses could do more to ease pain and accelerate healing. Out of this real-world inspiration, Krieger helped develop "Therapeutic Touch": a non-invasive technique that uses the flow of energy through the palms of the hands to soothe and heal. Dr. Krieger's landmark book on the subject, Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help or to Heal (Prentice-Hall, 1979) is currently in its 37th reprinting.

On Therapeutic Touch, Dr. Krieger brings easy-to-learn techniques directly to the hands of every interested listener, helping them to free their natural healing power and apply it to everyone they touch. Using a photo-illustrated study guide accompanying the tape course, listeners learn practical methods for reducing pain, supporting the body's natural healing processes, boosting immune response, and invoking deep relaxation. Today, Therapeutic Touch is practiced in more than 100 U.S. hospitals and clinics and taught in 75 countries. Now Dr. Krieger's eagerly awaited Therapeutic Touch audio presentation offers professional and lay healers worldwide a rare opportunity to receive original teachings from this renowned and celebrated authority. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 168 pages
• Publisher: Touchstone; 1 edition (May 1, 1979)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 067176537X
• ISBN-13: 978-0671765378
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #213,418 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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65 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excelent place to begin energy work. But with limitations, June 1, 2001

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W. Lambdin "Two Bears" (Ellensburg, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help or to Heal (Paperback)

I would like to give this book five stars, but with my years of energy work I see two flaws in Dr. Krieger's (Dolores Krieger holds a Ph.D in nursing) book.

The things I like about this book.

Several places in this book; Dr. Krieger uses the phrase "You do not stop at your skin". (A statement I agree with completely!)

Page 5-10 the introduction explains how Dr. Krieger began her exploration of energetic healing by observing natural healers like Oskar Estebany, and Dora Kunz.

Page 11. The Kirlian photos of fingertips showing the energy field around the fingers before, during, and after a healing session (proving there IS something to the notion of energy healing instead of coincidence).

Page 12. Dr. Krieger refers to the subtle energy by the sanskrit term "prana". This subtle energy has been explored by people all over the world, and has been called by dozens of different names. Here is an abbreviated list (Akasha, ch'i (Qi), Ki, Mana, Manitou, Nuwati, Orenda, Orgone, Ruach, and many others.)

Page 15. According to Dr. Krieger there is a written history of this subtle energy dating back 5000 years. (I am aware that The Yellow emperor of China wrote his treatise of internal medicine in 2445 BCE (about 4,450 years ago.)

Page 23-34. This section of the book contains simple exercizes where about 95-98% of people can feel and experience this subtle energy and proove it to themself (from my experience, and talks with Qigong masters about 2-5% of people are insensitive to this subtle energy). (Everyone needs proof in the beginning in order to gain confidence that this energy is REAL and not only wishful thinking or coincidence.)

Page 62-63. Has nice photos of Dr. Krieger's friend and mentor Dora Kunz.

Now for the two disagreements I have with this book.

1. Dr. Krieger severely limits her potential because Therapeutic touch is taught to direct this energy to the recepient a few inches away. (This subtle energy can be directed thousands of miles away as effectively as if the healer were standing right beside the recepient. I have doccumentation where I have passed Reiki attunements to people over 10,000 miles away with their experiences. Dr. Larry Dossey relates in "Prayer Is Good Medicine" (if memory serves) the results of a double blind study where half of the Heart patients in a large hospital were prayed for by people of various faiths, and the people that were on the prayer list (without knowing anything about the test) experienced less complications, and required less medication for pain.)

2. Dr. Krieger teaches only how to direct the healers personal reserves of energy. (There are mental exercizes as in Qigong, and healing modalities like Reiki, Seichim, and others that can teach you how to tap into an infinite supply of energy without depleting youe personal reserves of energy.)

(Repeatedly depleting your personal energy reserves can open you the healer to illnesses. If you ever feel weak or nervous stop immediately.)

Please E-mail me if you have questions or comments about this review. Two Bears.

Wah doh Ogedoda (We give thanks Great Spirit)

26 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The virtues of therapeutic touch!, July 5, 2000

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This review is from: The Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help or to Heal (Paperback)

Can you accept Einsteins paradigm, of the existence of a Life energy flowing through and around all of us. Well this is the concept that therapeutic touch on the whole is based on. Well, here are lessons that teaches you how to believe in this power within yourself, and how to utilize it to heal yourself and others.

I found this book quite informative, and the self-knowledge tests were very useful, especially to the skeptic in all of us. Laying of hands is a wonderful way to explore our own powers and this book is an excellent choice to aid us in this journey.

4.0 out of 5 stars A "must read" for those interested, October 31, 2010

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Dr. Doodle "Dr. Doodle" (Washington State) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: The Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help or to Heal (Paperback)

If you're into learning about Therapeutic Touch, this is of course a must read. You'll need to attend a training to really get it though. This is experiential by nature and can only be described in a book, but not taught.