The Pocket Encyclopedia Of Healing Touch Therapies

The Pocket Encyclopedia of Healing Touch Therapies is a convenient reference that will guide you in the art of healing yourself and others through 136 of the best healing touch techniques from reiki, reflexology, and acupressure. Easy to understand and immediately applicable to everyday health concerns, from migraines and upset stomach, to anxiety and muscle aches, this guide gives readers an inexpensive, D.I.Y. approach to healing themselves.

Guide covers basics of shiatsu, reflexology, reiki, acupressure, massage, aromatherapy, rolfing and energy massage.

An Expansive Resource with 55+ Energy Healing Modalities This newly revised edition of The Encyclopedia of Energy Medicine is an extensive directory for anyone wishing to study energy healing practices. With newly added modalities, updated course listings, and an improved list of energy medicine associations, this comprehensive reference features dozens of healing schools as well as licensure and certification programs in a field that is constantly growing and evolving. Linnie Thomas offers resources for pursuing your education in fifty-six energy healing methods, such as: Reflexology • Healing Touch • LomiLomi • Holotropic Breathwork • Thought Field Therapy • Reiki • Medical Qigong • Melody Crystal Healing This much-needed sourcebook covers healing session summaries, certification and continuing education requirements, endorsements and accreditations, standards of practice, legalities, and class availability. Thomas lists each therapeutic approach, course descriptions (including contact information), and codes of ethics, making it easy to find the information you need to explore these healing techniques for yourself. Includes a foreword by Cyndi Dale, internationally renowned author of The Complete Book of Chakra Healing

"The content of this book builds on the curriculum of the Healing Touch International (HTI) Healing Touch Certificate Program presented by Healing Beyond Borders"--Introduction.

Discover the Healing Power of Human Touch Curious about the benefits of touch therapy? Interest in hands-on therapies has skyrocketed, and even conventional physicians now embrace these treatments as beneficial not only in reducing stress, but also in speeding post-surgery recovery, managing addictions, and ending chronic pain from ?bromyalgia, migraines, arthritis, and other serious afflictions. While the demand for touch therapy has increased, so have the choices. Miracle Touch presents all the latest information on the different kinds of treatments—acupressure and shiatsu to reflexology and Reiki. You’ll also find: • Firsthand reports from people who have used touch therapies with miraculous results to manage back or neck pain, resolve carpal tunnel symptoms, and end the pain of TMJ • Inspiring evidence of the tremendous impact of human touch on our physical and spiritual well-being to aid in mood management, ease depression, and give a more positive outlook on life • Ways to discern help from hype and to determine which touch therapy is most appropriate for you • Stress-reduction tips, including ten mind-body exercises you can do to “relax on demand”—starting today.

Invitation to Holistic Health: A Guide to Living a Balanced Life provides solid principles and proven measures to promote optimal health and well-being using a holistic approach. Divided into three parts: Strengthening Your Inner Resources, Developing Health Lifestyle Practices, and Taking Charge of Challenges to the Mind, Body, and Spirit, this easy-to-read guide it provides how-to information when dealing with a variety of health-related issues that includes, but is not limited to, nutrition, exercise, herbal remedies, and homeopathic remedies. The Third Edition as been completely revised and includes current research on the effectiveness and safety of herbs and other complementary and alternative medicine therapies. The chapter on Menopause has been updated to reflect current thinking about the safe use of estrogen replacement, soy products, and other approaches to manage symptoms and new suggested readings and resources have been provided for further exploration into topics.

A comprehensive instruction guide to the gentle, powerful, non-invasive healing technique being used increasingly both inside and outside the medical profession. Available to anyone searching to help others in pain.

Invitation to Holistic Health: A Guide to Living a Balanced Life provides solid principles and proven measures to promote optimal health and well-being using a holistic approach. Divided into three parts: Strengthening Your Inner Resources, Developing Health Lifestyle Practices, and Taking Charge of Challenges to the Mind, Body, and Spirit, this easy-to-read guide it provides how-to information when dealing with a variety of health-related issues that includes, but is not limited to, nutrition, exercise, herbal remedies, and homeopathic remedies. The Second Edition as been completely revised and includes current research on the effectiveness and safety of herbs and other complementary and alternative medicine therapies. The chapter on Menopause has been updated to reflect current thinking about the safe use of estrogen replacement, soy products, and other approaches to manage symptoms and new suggested readings and resources have been provided for further exploration into topics. -- Provided by publisher.