Causes Sprouts Believes In: Healing Touch Buddies
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What is Healing Touch?
“Healing Touch is for the person who wants to enhance wellness in themselves and the lives of people they care about by using the gift of energetic touch. “
Healing Touch Buddies, Inc., started by Betty Ann Baker, is a local to South Florida non-profit health and education organization, dedicated to improving the quality of life of those challenged with breast cancer; providing patients with Healing Touch and volunteer practitioners with instruction and support. Our additional intention is to gather data on the impact of HT on specific symptoms associated with breast cancer and its treatment.
Healing Touch courses are open to all nurses, massage therapists, body therapists, counselors, psychotherapists, physicians other allied health care professionals as well as individuals who desire an in-depth understanding and practice of healing work using energy based concepts and principles.
Janet Mentgen, the Founder of Healing Touch, believed that anyone could learn how to facilitate healing in others. As she observed thousands of students doing Healing Touch, she noticed that there was no difference in the outcomes of well prepared non-nurses to those of well prepared nurses.
Janet believed that anyone with a compassionate heart and a desire to be of service to others could become a practitioner of energy healing. All that was needed was a commitment to learn and to grow.
The goal of Healing Touch is to restore balance and harmony in the energy system placing the client in a position to self heal.
Healing Touch is an energy therapy in which practitioners consciously use their hands in a heart-centered and intentional way to support and facilitate physical, emotional, mental and spiritual health. Healing Touch is a biofield (the magnetic field around the body) therapy that is an energy-based approach to health and healing.
Healing Touch uses touch and massage techniques to influence the human energy system, specifically the energy field that surrounds the body, and the energy centers that control the energy flow from the energy field to the physical body.
These non-invasive techniques utilize the hands to clear, energize, and balance the human and environmental energy fields, thus affecting physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and healing. It is based on a “heart centered caring relationship in which the practitioner and client come together energetically to facilitate the client’s health and healing.”
To learn more about Healing Touch buddies, and the care they bring to their community, please visit their website at www.healingtouchbuddies.org.
Sprouts very own Sharon Quercioli is very active with Healing Touch buddies, and it is a charity that is very close to her heart. They are in need of volunteers and donations to keep their operations running. Find out more about oppurtunities to give back to Healing Touch Buddies, click here.
3 Responses to “Causes Sprouts Believes In: Healing Touch Buddies”
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August 23rd, 2009 at 7:01 pm
New to blogging and the like, but I’m always up for learning new skills…Healing Touch Buddies invites you to visit our website, to help support our mission to provide comassionate support to women diagnosed with breast cancer.
Stay tuned for news of our new chapter, Suncoast Healing Touch Buddies, with a Healing Touch Buddies training seminar at Saint Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa in September!
September 1st, 2009 at 8:35 am
Healing Touch Buddies is a wonderful organization! The ladies are so kind, compassioinate, caring and very dedicated to the highest good of their clients!! You could not find a more Heart Centered and loving volunteer group of women. They devote their own free time to women who want the best possible outcome from their diagnosis and treatments. Women helping and supporting women!! What a beautiful way to honor each other! Thank you Betty Ann!! Your hard work is forever a part of us all!
September 10th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Healing Touch Buddies takes the stress out of the lives of many women with breast cancer and gives them the needed support that is
genuine and caring for those who enter the world of dis-ease with much anxiety and sadness.
I first entered this volunteer organization as a client and now volunteer and believe that the people involved are heart-centered angels, who give of their time to others who need the care.