(healing touch) Providing a noninvasive, biofield therapy using touch and compassionate intentionality to influence the energy system of a person, affecting their physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health and healing

(therapeutic touch) A form of complementary and alternative medicine based on the belief that vital energy flows through the human body. This energy is said to be balanced or made stronger by practitioners who pass their hands over, or gently touch, a patient's body. Healing touch is being studied in patients receiving cancer therapy, to find out if it can improve quality of life, boost the immune system, or reduce side effects. Healing touch is a type of energy therapy.

(therapeutic touch) An energy (biofield) therapy that encompasses a group of non-invasive techniques that utilize the hands to clear, energize, and balance the human and environmental energy fields. Healing Touch interventions may be used to restore, energize, and balance an energy field disturbance. (HTA)

(therapeutic touch) Attuning to the universal energy field by seeking to act as a healing influence using the natural sensitivity of hands and passing them over the body to gently focus, direct, and modulate the human energy field

(therapeutic touch) Placing of the hands of the healer upon the person to be cured with the intent of spiritual energetic healing.

Therapeutic touch is a type of energy medicine. The philosophy behind this modality is to use the therapist�s energy (biofield) to influence the patient�s biofield. Usually, practitioners do not physically touch the patient; instead, they move their hands at a distance over the patient. Therapeutic touch has been used to lessen anxiety...