How Cancer Patients Can Improve Their Quality of Life
Healing Touch is widely used in treating the fatigue, nausea and pain that frequently accompanies the treatment for cancer. Healing Touch is often cited by cancer patients as providing a sense of comfort and connection that got them through difficult cancer regimes and helped them to keep going.
The diagnosis of cancer often brings feelings of fear, anxiety, and loss. The treatment phase of the disease focuses on the destruction of cancer cells which often can impact healthy tissue as well. Healing Touch is able to provide a supportive environment for the person undergoing treatment.
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.
Complementary Therapies to Improve Wound Care
Healing Touch improves wound healing when used as a complementary therapy with conventional wound care strategies.
Many wounds pose no challenge to the body’s innate ability to heal; some wounds, however, may not heal easily either because of the severity of the wounds themselves or because of the poor state of health of the individual. Wounds that do not heal naturally within a few weeks, might reflect an underlying disease such as diabetes, poor circulation, or other serious conditions.Â
Relieving Symptoms of Chronic Illness and Taking Back Control of Your Life
Healing Touch can be an effective complementary therapy to help in the management of chronic conditions and diseases that cannot be cured. In the management of these conditions conventional health care is supplemented or enhanced with the use of Healing Touch which works to help facilitate the body’s own natural pattern of defense and healing.
A Heart to Heart about your Heart
Healing Touch can help improve the chance of a successful surgery and reduce the recovery time for persons facing the prospect of coronary artery bypass surgery.Â
Coronary artery bypass is among the most common surgeries performed in the world – with over 600,000 performed each year in the U.S. alone, it almost seems routine. Routine or not, there can be life-threatening complications, high levels of pain,
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