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Native American, Egyptian, Hindu, and Tibetan traditions. She became a widely respected energy healer. |
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Healer Bruyere uses the term "channeling" to describe a common energy healing technique in which: |
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. . . one person (the healer) acts as a channel to transfer various frequencies of energy to another person (the client) for the purpose of rebalancing chakras (stabilizing the energy field), thereby facilitating stress reduction, regeneration of tissues, and healing.
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Bruyere and other energy healers use a variety of techniques to assess a client's aura or energy field so they can make diagnosis and treatment decisions. Prominent New York healer Barbara Brennan teaches her students to scan their clients' energy field to find "imbalances, tears, stagnations, and depletions" in their flow of energy.12 |
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Students of Therapeutic Touch, another form of energy healing, learn to move their hands a few inches over the body of a patient from head to feet, become aware of changes in sensory cues in their hands, and redirect areas of accumulated tension in their patients' energy fields by movement of their hands.13 They also learn to sense with their hands differences in temperature and pressure, pulsations, "tingles," and feelings similar to slight electric shocks as they run their hands a few inches over the client's clothed body from head to foot.14 |
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Therapeutic Touch was derived from the ancient practice of the laying on of hands, and today it is used by nurses in hospitals and clinical settings throughout the world. Its theoretical principles and techniques were first taught in 1972 to nursing professor Dolores Krieger of New York University by clairvoyant healer and Theosophist Dora Kunz. According to Kunz, Therapeutic Touch (hereafter shortened to TT) actually came from the pranic healing methods described in ancient Yogic texts. The Sanskrit terms were changed to generic English so the technique could be taught to Western |
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