DICTIONARY OF TERMS AND MODALITIES

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Healing Touch

What is it?

Healing Touch is a relaxing, nurturing energy therapy. Gentle touch assists in balancing your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. Healing Touch works with your energy field to support your natural ability to heal. It is safe for all ages and works in harmony with standard medical care.

Hypnobirthing

What is It?

Hypnobirthing is as much a philosophy as it is a technique. It is a rewarding, relaxing, stress-free method of birthing that is based on the belief that when a mother is properly prepared for birthing physically, mentally, and spiritually, she can experience the joy of birthing her baby in an easier, more comfortable, and often even pain free, manner. HypnoBirthing returns to women the art of birthing in a way that allows her to summon her natural birthing instincts. HypnoBirthing is based on the belief that severe discomfort does not need to be a natural accompaniment of labor.

Hypnotherapy

What is it?

Hypnotherapy evolved from an Austrian physician, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). It is currently used in a variety of medical and dental environments, from helping people to lose weight, to stop smoking, reduce stress, relieve pain, anxiety, phobias, depression, low self-esteem, etc. It can include regression work or "progression," to visualize future positive outcomes and possibilities.

Hypnosis involves a state of focused relaxation, when the subconscious mind is open to suggestions. The therapist facilitates communication between the right and left sides of the brain with the client in a state of consciousness somewhere between waking and sleeping. The client benefits the most when the desire to be hypnotizes is there, and he/she knows the environment is completely safe and peaceful. The client, though relaxed, is always in control. Some practitioners have their own private practices, while others use hypnotherapy in their already existing acupuncture, massage, psychotherapy, or nursing careers.

Intuitive Healing

What is it?

Julie Motz developed her idea that healing is a process in which four basic feelings, corresponding to the four basic forces in physics:

• Electromagnetism - as light and electricity governs observation, communications and corresponds to fear
• Gravitation - anger with its accelerative power
• Nuclear force - pain with its power to pull in toward the center
• Weak force - (the most recent and most mysterious to be discovered) active whenever neutrinos are released or absorbed, as in the hydrogen-helium reaction which fuels stars like our sun, sending billions of neutrinos out into space. It corresponds to love, the radiant feeling of creation and connection.

In her own body, Ms Motz became aware that these four basic forces and their corresponding feelings were located in her tissues. In working with very ill patients, she sensed feelings being held in tissues that normally didn't correspond. She called these "emotional defenses". an example would be heart patients having "sorrow in their blood", which weakened their hearts. Motz believes that every cell in our body has a personality and memory, and is able to communicate with every other cell. She listens to, and interacts with cells for healing purposes, and also teaches her patients to do so as well.

Intuitive Painting

What is it?

Intuitive painting is the experience of painting freely, without
observing a subject or having anything in mind, guided by an inner
knowing. Process is emphasized over product.

Jin Shin Jyutsu

What is it?

JIN SHIN JYUTSU literally translated is:

JYUTSU - Art

SHIN - Creator

JIN - Man of Knowing and Compassion

(Art of the Creator through man of knowing and compassion)

Jin Shin Jyutsu is the art of releasing tensions which are the causes for various symptoms in the body. Our bodies contain several energy pathways that feed life into all of our cells. When one or more of these paths become blocked, this damming effect may lead to discomfort or even pain. This blockage or stagnation will not only disrupt the local area but will continue and eventually disharmonize the complete path or paths of the energy flow.

Through Jin Shin Jyutsu our awareness is awakened to the simple fact that we are endowed with the ability to harmonize and balance ourselves (in rhythm with the universe) physically, mentally and spiritually.

Jin Shin Jyutsu is an art as opposed to a technique because a technique is a mechanical application, whereas an art is a skillful creation. 

Jin Shin Jyutsu brings balance to the body's energies, which promotes optimal health and well-being, and facilitates our own profound healing capacity. It is a valuable complement to conventional healing methods, inducing relaxation and reducing the effects of stress.

Reflexology

What is it? 

Reflexology is a complementary therapy, which works on the feet to help heal the whole person not just the prevailing symptoms. 

Reflexology can be used to help restore and maintain the body’s natural equilibrium.  This gentle therapy encourages the body to work naturally to restore its own healthy balance.

Reflexology is suitable for all ages and may bring relief from a wide range of acute and chronic conditions.