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The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch
By Dora Kunz and Dolores Krieger
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Explores the extraordinary technique that put authentic healing into the hands of health care providers
• Examines the relationship between expanded levels of consciousness and the healing process
• Contains healing exercises for treating common ailments such as stomachaches and back pain, and practices for managing chronic stress
• Based on transcribed audiotapes of lectures by medical intuitive Dora Kunz (1904-1999), with commentary by Dolores Krieger
Since 1972 Therapeutic Touch has been taught in hospitals and at universities to tens of thousands of health care professionals. The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch provides an intimate glimpse into the life work of Dora Kunz (1904-1999), medical intuitive and fifth-generation clairvoyant, who used her gifts to reach out to others in her capacity as healer and teacher.
During their years of research and healing practice together, Dolores Krieger and her mentor, Dora Kunz, found illness to be caused by specific subtle energy imbalances. The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch teaches how to rebalance the body’s energy through touch, visualization, and a spiritual acceptance of life’s inevitable cycle. These exercises can be used both to heal physical pain and to achieve mental and spiritual peace. The authors also examine the important interconnected relationship between healer and patient. The book includes never-before-transcribed lectures by Dora Kunz, with commentary from Dolores Krieger, exploring expanded levels of consciousness as they relate to the healing process.
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The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch 2004
by Dora Kunz (Author), Dolores Krieger Ph.D. R.N.
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Explores the extraordinary technique that put authentic healing into the hands of health care providers
• Examines the relationship between expanded levels of consciousness and the healing process
• Contains healing exercises for treating common ailments such as stomachaches and back pain, and practices for managing chronic stress
• Based on transcribed audiotapes of lectures by medical intuitive Dora Kunz (1904-1999), with commentary by Dolores Krieger
Since 1972 Therapeutic Touch has been taught in hospitals and at universities to tens of thousands of health care professionals. The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch provides an intimate glimpse into the life work of Dora Kunz (1904-1999), medical intuitive and fifth-generation clairvoyant, who used her gifts to reach out to others in her capacity as healer and teacher.
During their years of research and healing practice together, Dolores Krieger and her mentor, Dora Kunz, found illness to be caused by specific subtle energy imbalances. The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch teaches how to rebalance the body’s energy through touch, visualization, and a spiritual acceptance of life’s inevitable cycle. These exercises can be used both to heal physical pain and to achieve mental and spiritual peace. The authors also examine the important interconnected relationship between healer and patient. The book includes never-before-transcribed lectures by Dora Kunz, with commentary from Dolores Krieger, exploring expanded levels of consciousness as they relate to the healing process.
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"Whether you are a healer, or a healee, The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch offers insights into the flow of healing energies and how one can connect to this source in order to bring health and peace to oneself and the world." ― Spirit of Change, Nov-Dec, 2004
". . . a powerful tool for rebalancing the body's energy through touch, visualization, and spiritual acceptance of life's inevitable cycle. The book examines the dynamic interrelationship between healer and patient and the vital role of expanded levels of consciousness as they relate to the healing process." ― Making Scents, Winter-Spring, 2005
". . . practitioners gain the sensitivity and spiritual connection needed to effectively promote physical healing as well as spiritual peace. . . . A special book for those adventurous enough to try energy-oriented healing." ― Irene Alleger, Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients, Jan, 2005
". . . an invaluable contribution to the pool of thought regarding esoteric healing." ― The Beacon, May/June 2005
"[Kunz and Krieger's] unique collaboration has put genuine healing into health care. . . . at once engaging and informative in the areas of the nature of consciousness and healing." ― New Dawn Magazine, Issue No. 115, Jul/Aug 2009
From the Back Cover
HEALTH
Therapeutic Touch is a powerful technique for rebalancing the body’s energy through touch, visualization, and spiritual acceptance of life’s inevitable cycle. Developed by Dora Kunz (1904-1999), medical intuitive and fifth generation clairvoyant, and Dolores Krieger, pioneer researcher on the dynamics of healing, this extraordinary method has put authentic healing into the hands of health care providers. It has been taught in hospitals and at universities to tens of thousands of health care professionals since 1972.
This book examines the dynamic interrelationship between healer and patient and the vital role of expanded levels of consciousness as they relate to the healing process. It provides an intimate glimpse into the life work of Dora Kunz in an engaging series of her never-before-transcribed lectures and case studies, accompanied by insightful commentary from Dolores Krieger. During their years of shared research and healing practice, the authors found illness to be rooted in specific subtle energy imbalances. They developed a transpersonal energetic approach to healing physical pain using centering and self-awareness practices. The practices and exercises they share in The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch will help practitioners achieve the sensitivity and spiritual empathy necessary to effectively access and respond to energy imbalances in themselves and in their patients, to promote physical healing as well as mental and spiritual peace.
DORA KUNZ, former president of the Theosophical Society of America, was the author of The Personal Aura, editor of Spiritual Aspects of the Healing Arts, and coauthor of The Chakras and the Human Energy Fields. DOLORES KRIEGER, Ph.D., R.N., is the author of The Therapeutic Touch, Accepting Your Power to Heal, and Therapeutic Touch Inner Workbook and is a professor emerita of nursing science at New York University.
About the Author
Dora Kunz, former president of the Theosophical Society of America, was the author of The Personal Aura, editor of Spiritual Aspects of the Healing Arts, and coauthor of The Chakras and the Human Energy Fields. Dolores Krieger, Ph.D., R.N., is the author of The Therapeutic Touch, Accepting Your Power to Heal, and Therapeutic Touch Inner Workbook and is a professor emerita of nursing science at New York University.
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
From Section I:
Consciousness and Healing
Centered Healing
Centering the Consciousness
Before we start Therapeutic Touch, we take a moment to be quiet and to center our thoughts and feelings in the heart. In that moment of silence, we try to dissociate from our own troubles and concerns and to feel at peace with the inner self.
Those who work with people who are ill--particularly in hospitals and other places where several sick persons are being given care--sympathetically try to help them by sending out energy to encompass and embrace the ailing persons with whom they come into contact. The nurse, for instance, may feel sorry for a patient and want to take away his or her pain, sadness, or troubles. This approach very often drains one’s vitality.
When we do an assessment and try to determine what the problem is with a person, we are stretching our subtle energy fields and taking in, or being sensitive to, the other person’s energetics. We are also going outward when we heal, in directing energy to the ill person. Centering is essentially the opposite approach. When we center, we lessen the flow to the outside and go inward. Even without thinking about the inner self specifically, we can feel its characteristic peace and quiet working through us.
If as a TT therapist you are quiet within yourself before touching a patient or getting involved in an emergency situation, then that center of calmness and peace protects you from taking in chaotic energy, even if you pick up the fear, panic, or anxiety of the persons involved. Having centered first, compassion will be directing your energy flows outward and simultaneously helping you to connect with the patient at a deeper level even before you begin. This is not an easy state to maintain, but to the many thousands who practice it, it has become an essential feature of their practice of Therapeutic Touch and of their inner growth.
Centering in the Heart
Focus your attention in the heart and feel very quiet. In that quiet, envision a symbol or sense of your own inner self and dwell in the feeling evoked for a full minute. After a few moments, affirm to yourself: I am that peace. In this meditation you will experience that within yourself there is a center of peace and quiet.
Staying with that feeling of peace, send your energy to someone who might need your help. In other words, project your thoughts to that person. Stay with the sense of peace radiating from within you as you continue your meditation on the stillness you feel in the region of your heart. When you have finished your meditation, take a deep breath and open your eyes.
You may be working with people in a great deal of pain, but you cannot work well with TT if you are only responding to the pain. You can be aware of the pain, and you are doing your level best to alleviate it using Therapeutic Touch. However, it is the centering that is the most important factor to have in place, and you will confirm that for yourself through experience. If you do not learn that, when you come upon someone who is suffering, you automatically take in some of that suffering. If you are centered, you will be aware of the suffering, but energetically you will not take it in while you work to help the healee dissipate it.
When we are centered, we do the healing from a place of profound peace and stillness and with a sense of certainty. If you are calm within, then you can encounter with equanimity another person’s hostility, sadness, or any difficult emotional pattern the patient is facing. It is from this centered state of consciousness, which invites the presence of the inner self, that we can help the patient meet the necessities of his or her karma. At first one may find the act of centering difficult, but with time it becomes an ingrained way of life that can be called upon when needed.
The Patient’s Role in the Healing Process
In the practice of TT there are times--no matter how much you want to help--when the patient’s body will respond very little and not be able to absorb the healing energy flow. The prime factors in the patient that impact the healing flow are: his own destiny; his willingness to engage himself in the healing process, that is, to allow it to happen; and his ability to relax or to permit others to help him relax, so that the healing energies can most easily and smoothly permeate his body.
Very often what blocks the effect of healing energies is that the patient has become completely identified with his disease and it has become an intrinsic part of his consciousness. Many patients who have been ill a very long time have made a picture in their mind of their sickness, and they have begun to think of it as part of themselves. They may want to be healed, but at that mental picture-making level they have a persistent image of themselves as sick. Everybody who has pain or who has been sick for a long time is hooked to a cyclic, repeating pattern of pain. The "hook" itself has something cyclic to it, and it catches the patient unawares. Then he begins to identify with the hook. When you project healing energy, that identification with illness acts as a barrier and prevents healing from happening. It may take more healing force than you had expected to break through that mental picture.
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Product details
ASIN : 1591430259
Publisher : Bear & Company; Original ed. edition (April 9, 2004)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Guide for Those Who CareReviewed in the United States on March 8, 2021
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I knew Dora,but this book shares depths of wisdom I never saw. She taught me to use my mind, heart,
and spirit for helping to heal myself and others. She changed my life. In this book she also shares how to help those who know they are going to die anyway.
A great book for nurses, therapists, counselors, and anyone who cares about others.
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I was not aiming to be a TT practitioner when I purchased the book. My purpose is to understand the spiritual sides of energy healing. There are many ancient types of energy healing in this Asian country where I live -- Reiki, Pranic Healing, Chi Meridian, Pranayama etc. but I think Dora Kunz, a member of Theosophical Society, is the first to popularize such practice due to her clairvoyant ability, and I find the authors view of the spiritual dimension sides of energy healing very assuring. There is so much love in the universe and our Inner or Higher Self is from that source. When we can center ourselves or or with the help of the TT practitioners we can overcome our physical limitations to reach that source, feel the deep love and peacefulness, and be healed.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent. Dora is a clairvoynat who is able to put into words what she has experienced for all to share.Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2010
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Wonderful book. Both Dora Kunz and Dr Dolores Krieger capture the inner journey a of Therapeutic Touch (TT) practitioners. Dora, a clairvoyant, and Dr Krieger a nursing professor co devleoped this wonderful healing therapy. Dora believed anyone has the ability to help and to heal. She puts into words a glimpse of this wonderful spiritual journey the TT Practitioner begins or continues once they start on the TT path of healing.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A Guide for Those Who CareReviewed in the United States on March 8, 2021
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I knew Dora,but this book shares depths of wisdom I never saw. She taught me to use my mind, heart,
and spirit for helping to heal myself and others. She changed my life. In this book she also shares how to help those who know they are going to die anyway.
A great book for nurses, therapists, counselors, and anyone who cares about others.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Spiritual IndeedReviewed in the United States on February 24, 2014
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I was not aiming to be a TT practitioner when I purchased the book. My purpose is to understand the spiritual sides of energy healing. There are many ancient types of energy healing in this Asian country where I live -- Reiki, Pranic Healing, Chi Meridian, Pranayama etc. but I think Dora Kunz, a member of Theosophical Society, is the first to popularize such practice due to her clairvoyant ability, and I find the authors view of the spiritual dimension sides of energy healing very assuring. There is so much love in the universe and our Inner or Higher Self is from that source. When we can center ourselves or or with the help of the TT practitioners we can overcome our physical limitations to reach that source, feel the deep love and peacefulness, and be healed.
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Charlie elkind
5.0 out of 5 stars great book if one wants to understand energy healingReviewed in the United States on February 23, 2021
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent. Dora is a clairvoynat who is able to put into words what she has experienced for all to share.Reviewed in the United States on December 1, 2010
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Wonderful book. Both Dora Kunz and Dr Dolores Krieger capture the inner journey a of Therapeutic Touch (TT) practitioners. Dora, a clairvoyant, and Dr Krieger a nursing professor co devleoped this wonderful healing therapy. Dora believed anyone has the ability to help and to heal. She puts into words a glimpse of this wonderful spiritual journey the TT Practitioner begins or continues once they start on the TT path of healing.
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Explores the extraordinary technique that put authentic healing into the hands of health care providers
• Examines the relationship between expanded levels of consciousness and the healing process
• Contains healing exercises for treating common ailments such as stomachaches and back pain, and practices for managing chronic stress
• Based on transcribed audiotapes of lectures by medical intuitive Dora Kunz (1904-1999), with commentary by Dolores Krieger
Since 1972 Therapeutic Touch has been taught in hospitals and at universities to tens of thousands of health care professionals. The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch provides an intimate glimpse into the life work of Dora Kunz (1904-1999), medical intuitive and fifth-generation clairvoyant, who used her gifts to reach out to others in her capacity as healer and teacher.
During their years of research and healing practice together, Dolores Krieger and her mentor, Dora Kunz, found illness to be caused by specific subtle energy imbalances. The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch teaches how to rebalance the body’s energy through touch, visualization, and a spiritual acceptance of life’s inevitable cycle. These exercises can be used both to heal physical pain and to achieve mental and spiritual peace. The authors also examine the important interconnected relationship between healer and patient. The book includes never-before-transcribed lectures by Dora Kunz, with commentary from Dolores Krieger, exploring expanded levels of consciousness as they relate to the healing process. (less)
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Very easy to read and to understand. It made healing accessible and possible for the 'ordinary' among us. It is such a simple concept. She was clearly a very very special person and it must have been such an hoour to know her when she was in this life. Mind you after reading this book I feel that I know her although we are both in different realities. Really recommend this book for anyone who yearns for more ...
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