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Therapeutic Touch as Transpersonal Healing

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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.

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.