The Benefits of Healing Touch
August 13, 2010 | Healing Crystals | No Comments

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Although I do remote crystal attunement sessions, I see many clients for a physical sessions. I establish energy flow by supportive and healing touch in the form of cradling the head, working on reflex points, laying my hands on their heads and bodies. This establishes energy flow as I mentioned, but the value of healing touch goes beyond the initiation of energy flow. It has been found to be an inherent factor in stress relief and in establishing healthy neural patterns, healthy immune response patterns and promotes thriving in newborns. There have been many studies done regarding stress levels going down with the use of touch but now scientists have recognized that our genetics is actually effected by early patterns of nurturing touch. While we all have individual unique genetic propensities, scientists have often questioned why a particular gene turns on or off which has been found to be a factor in many disease processes . Now, scientists have found that a mother rat’s nurturing touch actually provides the newborn rat strength in coping for its developing nervous and immune systems. A nurtured baby seems to have more resilience, less anxiety and greater coping skills to stressors in the environment.

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This is important because stress is a factor which can actually turn on genes that can later cause nervous or immune reactions, setting the newborn up for a variety of disease processes in later life. This is the field of “epigenetics“. Simply said, nurturing touch is even more of a requisite for health than once thought!




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