Therapeutic Touch has been taught to tens of thousands of health professionals and is available at hundreds of hospitals and teaching centers worldwide. It is a healing modality that has eased the discomforts of broken bones, surgery, and disease, and even saved the lives of newborns. Now, for the first time, one of its co-founders reveals the true nature of the healerclient relationship, and what occurs during the healing process. Based on Dolores Krieger's brilliant career as a registered nurse, researcher, and professor, the exercises and teachings in this book will forever change our understanding of the healing arts. Learn how centering yourself and focusing your attention are at the core of all healing interventions. Learn how energy works as a force in our bodies, and how a healer properly connects with a person seeking healing. And in the process learn the answer to an essential question, Why do I want to be a healer? It takes courage to start on a journey of touching and healing. This book is a wonderful guide, a midwife, in the process of selfdevelopment, therapeutic touch, and life.-Bernie Siegel, M.D., author of Love, Medicine & Miracles Dolores Krieger is blessed with a rare and subtle power of clearly and lovingly articulating the principles of Therapeutic Touch. In this seminal book, she shows that the principles involve the 'language' of energies which account for illness and healing. Krieger illuminates the natural why and how the energies will 'talk' and interact with you if you learn their language.-Ingo Swann, author of Natural ESP The work described so lucidly in these pages will change lives. It has mine.-Jeanne Achterberg, Ph.D., senior editor, Alternative Therapies in Health and Medicine Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., is Professor Emerita of Nursing at New York University. She is the bestselling author of Accepting Your Power to Heal: The Personal Practice of Therapeutic Touch, and The Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help or to Heal.