Easing the Debiliating Effects for Those Suffering From Dementia
Healing Touch can significantly lower agitation levels and improve behavioral response in persons with dementia.
Dementia is a loss of brain function that occurs with certain diseases. It affects memory, thinking, language, and judgment and can cause changes in behaviors and personality. Some behavioral changes may be caused by the actual deterioration happening in a person’s brain, while other behavioral and personality changes may be reactions to the emotional challenges of coping with the deterioration changes. Dementia may lead to depression, aggression, confusion, frustration, anxiety, a lack of inhibition and disorientation. Most types of dementia are non-reversible.
Creating a Sense of Physical, Emotional & Spiritual Well-Being
Creating a sense of well-being is one way in which Healing Touch facilitates the healing process. This can occur with one session or after many. It can also lead to a greater awareness of one’s purpose and their connection to others.
Well-being is an overarching term that is usually used to convey a sense of peace or happiness with one’s life and health. Some might call it a positive attitude, others describe it as having a sense of meaning in life. Healing Touch works with the energy field that permeates all of the individual’s physical, mental, emotion, and spiritual aspects to create a heart centered interaction between the client and practitioner that often helps create a sense of well-being.
Heart-Centered Compassionate Care During the Dying Process
The dying process can exert significant emotional pain on the person and their family and loved ones. Healing Touch provides heart-centered compassionate care and welcome comfort during the dying process.
The days and hours leading to the moment of death can be rich with meaning and expressions of love. When a person is close to death, a natural series of changes occur. These changes usually are not medical emergencies and the goal is to keep the dying person as comfortable as possible.
Reversing the Effects of Long-Term Depression and Anxiety
Healing Touch has been shown to decrease the effects of long-term depression as well as the anxiety and depression often brought on by illness and even medical procedures.
Anxiety and depression are very common in today’s global society. The effects of these disorders can create personal, family, and community hardship. Healing Touch helps alleviate some of that suffering.
Reducing the Stress that Wrecks the Body’s Ability to Heal Itself
Healing Touch is effective at reducing the long-term effects of chronic stress on the body, and as well as minimizing the impact of stressful events like medical procedures or treatment for severe diseases.
Stress has both positive and negative effects on the human system. A certain amount of stress is needed to encourage change and to move one forward with daily challenges. However, prolonged stress creates a “wearing down” of the body’s defenses.
Muffy Williams