When you begin your healing journey you may choose nutritional or spiritual guidance, take an intriguing course, gain insight from someone you meet or read a book that inspires you to release old patters of behaviour.

It is often through a series of discoveries that you reach the place of wellness that is your potential. There is the discovery of which path feels right at the moment, when it is time to release something that is no longer working or step out on a new path, and there are the inner discoveries of who you are, the dawning awareness that as you release pain and emotion you grow into a person that has more depth and awareness.

Healing Touch is one of the less invasive forms of healing body and mind. Wellness occurs by attempting to balance the subtle energetic field of the body and return the live-force to its natural state. Healing Touch outwardly appears to be working with the physical body. To an observer there is a gentle touch and even when a practioner’s hands move off of the body, the client relaxation is obvious to the viewer. Breathing becomes deeper and even, there may be a sigh, the facial features soften and the muscles of arms and legs relax.

The human experience has many layers. Ranging through the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual layers is a linking process that can be accessed through tapping into the potential of energy healing. And that is the magic of Healing Touch. As subtle energy moves though your physical body it also is touching upon layers that, although not physical, make up the totality of who you are and how you operate through your life.

As the whole of the body becomes balanced, your reality can also change. This is called personal growth and can be one of the positive side-effects of Healing Touch. For example, whereas once you might have made choices that caused you inner anguish, after experiencing the balancing effect of Healing Touch sessions you may have gained inner awareness and clarity and now make lifestyle choices that add to your wholeness and self empowerment. As you move forward with clarity and awareness you will find you no longer react to people and events in ways that are damaging to either yourself or others.

Healing Touch is an important aspect of self care. Balancing of the body’s subtle energy field helps the various layers of your self remember who they are and how they best work together. This is a positive move forward and you can’t argue with the evidence, its also super relaxing!

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Thanks to Bev, Leone and Anne for helping to sell the Notes to Self CDs at the Healing Touch Conference in Barrie, Ontatio. Just look at their beautiful smiles!

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One of the dreams of the founder of the Healing Touch Program was that every family might have someone trained in energy work.

Over the last few years Shireen Zant has experienced what a benefit that would be. From hangovers to heaven, Healing Touch has been an invaluable asset.

The introduction came from the Zant’s neighbour, Hazel Tait, who was completing her training and needed people to practice on.

Both Shireen and her husband Roy were willing volunteers. Roy ’s work takes him away from home for extended periods and he often returned in a high state of stress. So every Saturday morning he was home he had an appointment with Hazel. As Shireen describes it, Roy would “leave a grizzly bear and return a teddy bear.” Roy was even more impressed one weekend when he had overdone his usual Friday evening relaxation. Besides being generally more calm, his hangover was gone, too!

Shireen noticed that her own regular Healing Touch sessions greatly reduced her PMS discomfort. The downside to being away on holidays was the return of her symptoms until she got back to regular sessions with Hazel.

So Shireen decided to learn this work to. All too soon she had opportunities to use it. Roy’s first cataract operation went normally, with Healing Touch greatly reducing the severe anxiety reaction he normally had when encountering the medical profession.

The second eye was another story. During the operation the cataract shattered. Local doctors were unable to deal with this situation, making a fast rip to Vancouver General necessary. But there were no beds. So Shireen stayed by Roy ’s bed in the hall, clearing and calming him as she had been trained, until he was taken into the OR. Wit only local anesthetic, Roy couldn’t believe that he didn’t faint as he watched the doctor remove the fragments, “like Pac-Man.”

Soon afterwards, Roy ’s son Stacey, was injured in a car accident. Again Shireen’s energy work helped reduce the shock reactions and supported the healing. Now, whenever he visits an HT session is Stacey’s first request.

During their most recent challenge both Shireen and Roy used Healing Touch.

Just after Christmas, Roy ’s 89-year old mother was found to have extremely advanced cancer. For nearly a month one or both of them has been at her bedside, ready whenever her pain pushed through the medications’ boundaries. Roy would hold her head in the way he had found most soothing during his treatments; Shireen would use other pain-reducing techniques. Soon Lil would heave a big sigh and rest comfortably for another 20-30 minutes, when the work would be repeated. Finally her prayers were answered and she passed away peacefully. Though they mourn her loss, the Zants are also at peace, knowing they really were able to help in a most significant way.

Submitted by Joyce Tinney

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