Healing Touch

On the Healing Touch program founded by nurse-healer, Janet Mentgen, RN

What is Healing Touch?

Touch in and of itself is healing. The phrase “healing touch” is commonly used. There is, however, a very specific program of energy healing named Healing Touch. Healing Touch is an energy-based therapy. By the gentle placing of hands on or near the body, the flow of energy can be re-directed, promoting a feeling of deep relaxation. Its goal is to restore the body’s natural flow of energy, thus facilitating self-healing.

Healing Touch is complementary to other health care modalities. Developed within the nursing profession, this program lends itself to integration with conventional medical settings.

Background and Description

The Healing Touch program grew out of the work and teaching of nurse-healer, Janet Mentgen, who taught the first official Healing Touch course in 1989. The program she developed is partly based on her interpretation of the healing philosophies and methods of well-known healers, such as Alice Bailey, Dr. Brugh Joy, Barbara Brennan, and Rosalyn Bruyere. It also includes techniques of lesser known healers, as well as insights and techniques discovered by Mentgen and her nursing colleagues.

Healing Touch is taught in five levels, and for those who wish to complete the program, can lead to becoming a Healing Touch Practitioner. In addition, those who wish to demonstrate their competence in the program can complete special requirements and get certified through Healing Touch International. The program is taught globally with a standardized curriculum, and certification is a rigorous process. Those who wish to become instructors in Healing Touch can complete a sixth level after becoming certified.

More: To read learn about Healing Touch in detail, visit the Healing Touch website: http://www.healingtouch.net.

Read article about Mary Maddux’s work with Healing Touch in hospice (Napa Valley Register, March 1999).

REFERENCES:

Healing Touch: a Guidebook for Practitioners, Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Delmar Publishers, 2000 (newly revised version). For those interested in Healing Touch and its techniques. Intermediate for the most part, some introductory material. Excellent chapter by Janet Mentgen, founder of HT, on the role and methods of the healer.

White Shadow: Walking with Janet Mentgen, by Diane Wind Wardell, Colorado Center for Healing Touch

 

Comments

7 Responses to “Healing Touch”

  1. Kate Toussaint on April 28th, 2009 2:30 pm

    I am a healing touch practitioner. I am inquiring about renewing my certification. I think it may have come due March of 09.
    thank you,
    Kate Toussaint

  2. Mary on April 28th, 2009 4:41 pm

    Hi Kate, You’ll need to contact the official Healing Touch program — healingtouch.net — about renewing your certification.

  3. Sherry Katzenberger on July 11th, 2009 6:49 pm

    How do I find a practitioner in my area?

  4. Mary on July 12th, 2009 8:58 am

    Sherry, here’s a link for a directory –
    http://www.htpractitioner.com/

  5. kaitlyn b. on June 17th, 2010 9:47 pm

    Hello my name is kaitlyn and im only 12 years old.
    i am a true healer i can find where people are hurting at.
    Also i have the ”healing touch”.
    it all started at age 8.
    i was outside and i almost fell off a high tree house head first.
    i could,ve fell and had a brain concusion or possibly died but my dad caught me b4 i could hit the ground.
    when he caught me i hit a branch on the way down n passed out.
    when i woke up i thought i was dead or something but then after i took a hot shower,i felt way better!!!
    anyways the next day my mom was complaining by groaning and i hugged her and felt some wierd thing goin through me and i said ”mom,……..is ur leg aching???”and she said “yes how did u no???from that day ive been practicing my healing techniques and stuff and your website has helped me even more!!!i no that story is hard to believe but its true!!!!!well right back someone thanks!

  6. kaitlyn b. on June 17th, 2010 9:49 pm

    this is me again i forgot to tell u i healed her by giving her some weird massage she was creeped but then she knew i was a healer

  7. Mary on June 18th, 2010 8:50 am

    Thank you for sharing your story with us, kaitlyn. It’s very believable and it’s wonderful that you are able to recognize and embrace your abilities. We wish you well!

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