e to my wound and then started to give me Therapeutic Touch. Amazingly, I calmed down and stayed quit on the floor. Therapeutic Touch not only works, it works wonders. For some reason TT is not very popular in hospitals. In a strange different and a little weird but how come it is not accepted. In a hand out that my mother put out, she lists three underlying principles of Therapeutic Touch. “ #1 a human being is an energy field.” Meaning everyone has energy all around him or her, inside and out. This energy can be focused, with practice, to help in a positive way. “#2 A human being and the environment are continually, simultaneously, and mutually exchanging energy.” This means that the energy that you have is not just your own, energy encompasses everything. “#3 Universal order is a force innate to all energy fields.” This means that there is an order to nature that can be trustedThis isn’t the way that people tending to think but that doesn’t mean that TT has to be unconventional. TT is acknowledged as part of nursing practice by the nursing organization of New Brunswick. Hence, it is available ideally to any patient who requests it, but few are using it. More people are not using it because not enough people are using it. Publicity is a major factor in making or breaking an idea. TT puts out the idea that everyone can help everyone including his or her selves. If that happened, perhaps doctors, nurses and hospitals would not be needed as much as they are now, and people would lose power and money. Unfortunately we are a society that hands over or individual power to an appointed “expert”, which calls all the shots and makes any important decisions.Handing over the responsibility of making our own decisions is so much easier than actually thinking about what’s going on around us. People have become perfectly satisfied at letting someone else do their dirty work. Pe...
