Trevis R. Badeaux
The Advertiser, Lafayette, La.
Integrative Healing: Articles
Healing Touch works
Practitioners don’t dress in white smocks and dole out treatment in sterile hospitals or office environments. A growing number of industry professionals consider them to be part of the next medical miracle, and their treatment involves no medicine. Healing Touch is energy work.
Practitioners use their skills to ease pain, speed healing and remove anxiety, depression, tension, drug residue and other impurities that clog the human energy flow. Techniques range from a simple laying on hands to more elaborate hand gestures learned through more than 100 hours of required preparation and practice for certification.
“Healing Touch doesn’t replace modern medical practice and treatment,” said the Rev. Donna Laurents, the state’s first certified practitioner and Instructor. ‘it works with them to speed healing, remove toxins left in the system by anesthetics and other drug treatments. It relieves stress and the toll medical treatments take on a body.”
Human energy is made of three separate systems: meridian, which correlates to different internal organs; chakra, which carries into and out of the body; and auric, the energy field that surrounds the body. Although the three energy systems cannot be seen with the naked eye, Laurents said, technology exists capable of photographing the human aura.
“During the Civil War, physicians went from patient to patient without washing their hands. Surgery rooms were little more than tents with dirt floors,” she said. “People then didn’t believe in microscopic germs because they couldn’t see them. The technology didn’t exist to see them, but the threat was real.’
Healing Touch works primarily with the meridian and auric human energy systems, where drug residue and other toxins work to slow or stop the body’s natural energy flow, said Sue Heldenbrand, a certified Healing Touch practitioner who teaches the technique with Laurents.
“If even part of the natural energy flow is interrupted, it affects the entire system,” Heldenbrand said, “which can lead to prolonged disease or a delay in natural healing.”
A study conducted at Barnes~Jewish Hospital in St. Louis, Mo., showed most of the 62 women receiving radiation therapy for gynecological or breast cancer experienced less fatigue when exposed to Healing Touch treatments. The same women reported lower levels of stress, depression, anxiety and anger.
Healing Touch treatments cost about $150 for three sessions. ($60 for one) Each session lasts an average 45 minutes to an hour, depending on the specific needs of the individual seeking treatment. Most medical insurance companies do not pay for the alternative treatment, Laurents said, but insurance approval is on the horizon for many.
“That’s a thing of the future,” she said. “We’re just not there yet.”
Contact: Sue Heldenbrand, CHTP
(Certified Healing Touch Practitioner)
Synergistic Healing
337 232-4799
Lafayette, LA 70506 USA
Credits: Trevis R. Badeaux and The Advertiser, Lafayette, LA
