How Can I Get Started with Energy-Balancing Therapy?
In the current health care environment, people with acute and chronic disorders are
rapidly discharged back to the community. Family and friends are often over-
whelmed by caregiver responsibilities. Often they feel helpless in the face of their
loved one’s obvious suffering or pain. Learning TT can be a powerful tool to help
counteract the sense of helplessness that can be experienced. As caregivers discover
that TT can minimize the experience of pain and increase the sense of relaxation,
they often feel they have something “worthwhile” to offer. In addition, the use of TT
can be helpful to the caregiver, who is most likely exhausted from trying to carry on
the normal daily routine, as well as care for the sick or injured person. Because the
first step of TT is centering, the process demands that caregivers take a few minutes
for themselves as they concentrate on their own well-being and sense of peace. As
caregivers increase their self-awareness, they are quicker to recognize tension and
stress in their bodies, which, hopefully, encourages them to develop stress manage-
ment skills. Dr. Janet Quinn has also made a TT videotape for caregivers, which is
straightforward and easy to learn.
TT, HT, and Reiki produce a sense of well-being and relaxation for both the practi-
tioner and the recipient. For some healers, it is the first time they have been given
permission to be quiet, take a breath, and center during working hours. For some
patients, this is their first encounter with a healer who has done so. When the healer
is in a peaceful state of mind, that gentleness and kindness permeates the environ-
ment. Patients react positively to the treatments, but also to the individual attention
from healers as they build relationships, offer noninvasive nurturing touch, and
reduce stress and anxiety.
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The Absolute Minimum
■ Energy-balancing therapies attempt to bring calmness and order to the
energy fields believed to be created by and around every person.
■ The key ingredients of balancing therapy are a healing intent and an open-
ness to perceiving forces and conditions not readily apparent to the five
senses.
■ The practice of energy-balancing therapies is by no means limited to health-
care professionals, and is a great way for those close to people with illnesses
to play a role in the healing process.
