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health professionals. After learning the TT principles, Krieger began to conduct research on the healing method at New York University School of Nursing, and to write books and journal articles reporting her findings. |
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Russell has an interesting story to tell about an early encounter he had with Dora Kunz. She demonstrated her clairvoyant abilities to him forty years ago at the New York Theosophical Society, by psychically locating magnets that Russell had hidden. Kunz told Russell that she could sense the location of the magnets by the auras of light that she saw emanating through the physical objects behind which the magnets were hidden. She was also able to correctly distinguish from a distance which poles of the magnets were north or south by the different colors of light that they radiated. |
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Targ, then a young graduate student, was so impressed with Kunz's ability that he was led to further investigate human perception of magnetic fields. He talked with researchers at Cambridge University who were investigating the production of "visual phosphines," which are colored lights seen by people exposed to very high magnetic fields. While at Cambridge, he had an opportunity to work with a type of blind African fish, Gymnarcus, that navigates by perception of magnetic fields. Russell theorizes that these kinds of short-range magnetic interactions could be relevant to the short-range effects of energy healing or noncontact methods of Therapeutic Touch, although he does not see them as relevant to distant healing. |
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Therapeutic Touch originally involved some laying on of hands, as well as the manipulation of the energy fields that are believed to surround the body. What makes TT unique among the schools of energy healing is its use internationally among the entire spectrum of health care professionals, and the extent to which its effects have been the subject of clinical research. Such research on the effects of Therapeutic Touch has shown remarkable evidence for the elevation of human serum hemoglobin, alteration in EEG (electroencephalograph), EKG (electrocardiograph), galvanic skin response, and decreases in people's anxiety, diastolic blood pressure, headache pain, and pain after surgery.
15 Therapeutic Touch has been taught to more than 36,000 health care professionals, at more than 80 colleges and universities in the U.S., and in more than 70 countries throughout the world. |
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