Here is a comprehensive instruction guide to Therapeutic Touch -- the gentle, powerful, noninvasive healing technique being used increasingly both inside and outside the medical profession. Derived from ancient healing methods, Therapeutic Touch has proved extremely effective in treating wounds and infections, headaches and other stress-related disorders, strengthening and quickening the body's own healing resources, soothing women in childbirth and fretful babies, and giving comfort to the terminally ill. With graceful sweeping movements of the hands a few inches from the body, the Therapeutic Touch practitioner scans the patient's energy flow, replenishing it where necessary, releasing congestion, removing obstructions, and generally restoring order and balance in the diseased system. Recognizing that the ability to heal is innate in everyone, Janet Macrae, Ph.D., R.N., has taught Therapeutic Touch for many years in hospitals, nursing schools, and healing centers throughout the country. It is an easy-tolearn, simple-to-use-anywhere healing technique. And with this book it becomes available to all those who are searching for ways to help others in pain or distress.