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Touch occurred when she was caring for her mother, who was ill with cancer. She had been sitting at her mother's bedside for many hours and decided to see if she could do TT without going through the motions. Quinn said she began to imagine that she was sending healing energy to her mother from her hands:
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An important part of Therapeutic Touch is that it is done with the intention to help or heal. So I centered myself, and imagined myself in a cocoon of peace and calm and total well-being with my mother. I visualized that I was projecting energy from my hands, but I kept my hands and body completely still. I did Therapeutic Touch without the movement.
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My mother had been lying there silently without moving for quite awhile before this. Just when I was visualizing myself in this cocoon of peace and calm with her, she opened her eyes, turned her head, and looked directly at me. "You make it so much easier," she said.
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For me, that was a turning point. It was life-changing. It was clear to me that there is another dimension to reality that we don't know much about. 19
This sounds to me very much like spiritual healing. That experience compelled Quinn to return to graduate school to conduct research on noncontact Therapeutic Touch.
More recently, Quinn's colleagues have been interested in measuring immune system effects of TT on both the practitioners as well as the recipients of the treatments.20 Since other research has demonstrated that positive emotions can have a beneficial effect on one's health, Quinn reasoned that the feelings of compassion and unconditional love, that are the focus of TT practitioners, should enhance the healer's immune system as well as that of the recipient.21
The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist
Psychotherapist Larry LeShan is another researcher with a passion for understanding how healing works. LeShan has a wealth of over forty years' experience in both teaching and practicing nonlocal healing, and he has

 
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