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It has been shown to help the sick or hurt, calm the feared and comfort those who need comfort. Because of it’s different approach to helping restore health rather than the “normal” taking a pill, TT has not been readily accepted by many medical doctors. In A Doctor’s guide To Therapeutic Touch, author Susan wager, M.D. states that Therputic Touch is different then normal medical procedures. “In evaluating any form of healing, weather conventional medicine or unconventional therapies we make basic assumptions about the healing process”(24) Therapeutic Touch is done by concentrating one’s energy, and directing this focused energy through one’s hands to a person or animal. Physical contact is not always necessary, but sometimes is appropriate. My mother, Barbara Cull-Wilby, PhD., R.N., has studied practiced and lived TT since 1987. When I was five years old, my family and I Lived in Rochester, New York. I wasn’t accident prone, but I wasn’t without adventure. While playing with friends, outside one day, I decided to attempt a flying act off my picnic table. Not long after my miraculous take off my forehead found it’s way to the table’s sharp edge. This of course resulted in a big gouge in my forehead with quite a bit of blood. I ran screaming into the house to find my mother, who had an office at home. Upon my arrival, into her office, I discovered she was with a client. My mother cleaned off my face, had her client apply pressure 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 trusted This 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. Perhaps if this was not the way and people thought, acted and relied upon their own decision-making there would not be so much turmoil in our lives. That is because no single person, group or environment would have as many dependant followers eating out of their hands. Another reason why Therapeutic Touch is unconventional is fear, fear of the unknown. For some people, to think that energy from someone’s hands could ease pain is enough to scare them to death. Again it comes to the fact that little is publicly known about it. Advertisement of an idea such as TT could bring it from zero to hero in less than a week. The media could take this unconventional idea and turn it into a familiar household routine. Therapeutic Touch is a good way to help others. It is different, but it does work. Trying new things never killed anybody. It is unfair for it to be labeled unconventional just because it expresses new and different ideas about healing. Next time you come across something that seems a little odd and might be a little silly, take a deep breath, close your eyes, feel the energy of everything around and inside you, and than decide weather or not it’s worth your time. You never know it could save your life. Cull-Wilby, Barbara, PhD, R.N. Therapeutic Touch pamphlet, Wholecare Wager, Susan, M.D. A Doctor’s guide to Therapeutic Touch, Bibliography: Word Count: 901
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