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DICTIONARY OF TERMS AND MODALITIES

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Reiki

What is Reiki? (ray-key)

Reiki is a gentle, balancing and healing energy therapy. The name, Reiki, is a Japanese word meaning "universal life energy." This energy intelligently goes where it is needed most to increase balance and harmony, promoting relaxation and healing.

Light touch used on or above the client's fully-clothed body can release physical, mental, emotional and spiritual blocks, cleanse the body of all manner of toxins and activate the body's natural ability to heal itself.

Reiki professionals help the client achieve relaxation, often reducing pain and/or anxiety. The intent is to support the healing process from a conscious and compassionate state.

 

Somatic Experiencing® (SE)

What is it?

Somatic Experiencing® (SE) is a short-term naturalistic approach to the resolution and healing of trauma developed by Dr. Peter Levine. It is based upon the observation that wild prey animals, though threatened routinely, are rarely traumatized. Animals in the wild utilize innate mechanisms to regulate and discharge the high levels of energy arousal associated with defensive survival behaviors. These mechanisms provide animals with a built-in ‘’immunity’’ to trauma that enables them to return to normal in the aftermath of highly ‘’charged’’ life-threatening experiences.

 

Spiritual Response Therapy

What is it?

SRT is an ancient form of healing which operates at the soul level. Many ailments we suffer with have their energies rooted in past life discordant issues. Those ailments (both physical and mental) are part of our cellular memory and re-manifest lifetime after lifetime.

I connect to my "high self" and ask a series of questions which help me identify patterns or programs of discordant energy which have imprinted in the Akashic Record (your soul's record of lifetimes) covering literally thousands of lifetimes. Once these programs and energies are identified, I ask that they be cleared. When that is done your soul has been educated to the lessons it should have learned and positive energies replace the old. You may feel the changes almost instantly!

Virtually everyone can benefit from an SRT clearing. An SRT clearing actually enhances the effects of all other healing modalities, both traditional and alternative.

 

Therapeutic Touch

What is it?

Therapeutic Touch is best described as an intentionally directed process of energy exchange where the practitioners use their  hands as a focus to facilitate the subject’s own healing process. It is based on the premise that the human body, mind, emotions and intuition form a complex, dynamic “energy field” governed by pattern and order. This human energy field is abundant and flows in balanced patterns in health but is depleted and/or unbalanced in illness or injury. These defects can be detected and manipulated by an experienced practitioner of Therapeutic Touch.  It is considered most useful in reducing or eliminating pain, promoting healing, and eliciting a relaxation response.

Although its ultimate derivation is unclear, practitioners cite it as a contemporary interpretation of ancient healing practices.  The modern practice has generally been attributed to Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN and her mentor, Dora Van Gelder Kunz - a "natural" healer.  Therapeutic Touch was first conceived as an extension of professional nursing care. In the summer of 1972, Krieger, then a Professor at New York University, and Kunz began teaching their techniques to Krieger's graduate student nurses in a class called "The Frontiers Of Nursing".

Nurturing and compassion are two key characteristics valued by practitioners of Therapeutic Touch.  Exercising this healing modality allows practitioners to express their compassion and caring in a way that lets them impact people safely.  The practitioners say they are particularly empowered by the fact that they need no other equipment to practice their healing art than their hands.  Therapeutic Touch allows them a positive way to offer the compassionate part of themselves to others.

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