Therapeutic Touch as Transpersonal Healing [Paperback]

Dolores Krieger (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1590560108 | ISBN-13: 978-1590560105 | Publication Date: December 1, 2002

Therapeutic Touch (TT) is an energy therapy that encompasses a group of non-invasive healing techniques that use the hands to clear, energize, and balance the human and environmental energy fields.

This book is designed for the Therapeutic Touch (TT) therapist who is committed to helping or healing those in need, and through this process has found entry to deeper dimensions of herself. It is out of these profound levels of consciousness that the Therapeutic Touch process arises.

Part One of the book offers an in-depth study of the ideas behind Therapeutic Touch. Part Two looks at how the TT process integrates within the consciousness of the therapist during the TT experience. Part Three examines the broader implications of TT for both healer and client, along with exercises and detailed resources.

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About the Author

Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N. is the author of Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help or to Heal (Simon & Schuster), Accepting Your Power to Heal: The Personal Practice of Therapeutic Touch (Bear & Co.), and Therapeutic Touch Inner Work Book: Ventures in Transpersonal Healing (Bear &Co.). She lives in Columbia Falls, Montana.

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Lantern Books (December 1, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1590560108
• ISBN-13: 978-1590560105
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.9 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,686,097 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Warmly recommended, January 1, 2005

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Daniel J. Benor "DB@wholistichealingresearch... (Bellmawr, New Jersey) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Therapeutic Touch as Transpersonal Healing (Paperback)

Dolores Krieger takes several steps forward in this book. She shares transpersonal aspects of healing that take TT beyond the mechanistic bioenergy model of simply assessing bioenergy fields that reflect physical and psychological problems, and adjusting bioenergy states through healer intent. Yet Krieger firmly grounds the transpersonal in theory and experiential explorations, with a strong focus on teaching in a responsible way.

Krieger presents lists of descriptors for various aspects of the TT experience that are helpful in dissecting and analyzing TT, but most of all - in appreciating its multi-faceted, multi-layered potentials for bringing the TT therapist (Krieger uses this term instead of healer) through bioenergy interactions into ever greater awarenesses of the transpersonal dimensions of healing.

Discussions of the chakras (major bioenergy centers along the midline of the body) emphasize their transpersonal resonations with the cosmos, in addition to their regulation of localized body functions. Krieger strongly advises that a person should be helped to regulate her own chakras and that these centers should not be treated by the TT therapist. (In this, she differs substantively from practices common to many other healing approaches.)

Krieger has several earlier books on TT. This one takes the reader more deeply into the need to focus on the personal and spiritual development of the healer.

The reviewer found this book more focused on transpersonal issues than Krieger's earlier ones and warmly recommends it to anyone wanting to learn about Therapeutic Touch.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A remarkable, gentle, non-invasive healing technique, January 5, 2003

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This review is from: Therapeutic Touch as Transpersonal Healing (Paperback)

Therapeutic Touch As Transpersonal Healing by Dolores Krieger (who developed Therapeutic Touch in collaboration with Dora Kunz) is a an explanatory presentation of the practice of "Therapeutic Touch", including its origins, its applications to promote healing, and much, much more. Designed especially for hands-on therapists and a highly recommended addition to Alternative Medicine reference collections and reading lists, Therapeutic Touch As Transpersonal Healing offers a an accessible and superbly organized body of practical information, useful guidelines, and invaluable resources for anyone with an interest in learning about this remarkable, gentle, non-invasive healing technique for repairing and maintaining human health.