The Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help to Heal [Paperback]

The things I like about this book.

Several places in this book; Dr. Krieger uses the phrase "You do not stop at your skin". (A statement I agree with completely!)

Page 5-10 the introduction explains how Dr. Krieger began her exploration of energetic healing by observing natural healers like Oskar Estebany, and Dora Kunz.

Page 11. The Kirlian photos of fingertips showing the energy field around the fingers before, during, and after a healing session (proving there IS something to the notion of energy healing instead of coincidence).

Page 12. Dr. Krieger refers to the subtle energy by the sanskrit term "prana". This subtle energy has been explored by people all over the world, and has been called by dozens of different names. Here is an abbreviated list (Akasha, ch'i (Qi), Ki, Mana, Manitou, Nuwati, Orenda, Orgone, Ruach, and many others.)

Page 15. According to Dr. Krieger there is a written history of this subtle energy dating back 5000 years. (I am aware that The Yellow emperor of China wrote his treatise of internal medicine in 2445 BCE (about 4,450 years ago.)

Page 23-34. This section of the book contains simple exercizes where about 95-98% of people can feel and experience this subtle energy and proove it to themself (from my experience, and talks with Qigong masters about 2-5% of people are insensitive to this subtle energy). (Everyone needs proof in the beginning in order to gain confidence that this energy is REAL and not only wishful thinking or coincidence.)

Page 62-63. Has nice photos of Dr. Krieger's friend and mentor Dora Kunz.

Now for the two disagreements I have with this book.

1. Dr. Krieger severely limits her potential because Therapeutic touch is taught to direct this energy to the recepient a few inches away. (This subtle energy can be directed thousands of miles away as effectively as if the healer were standing right beside the recepient. I have doccumentation where I have passed Reiki attunements to people over 10,000 miles away with their experiences. Dr. Larry Dossey relates in "Prayer Is Good Medicine" (if memory serves) the results of a double blind study where half of the Heart patients in a large hospital were prayed for by people of various faiths, and the people that were on the prayer list (without knowing anything about the test) experienced less complications, and required less medication for pain.)

2. Dr. Krieger teaches only how to direct the healers personal reserves of energy. (There are mental exercizes as in Qigong, and healing modalities like Reiki, Seichim, and others that can teach you how to tap into an infinite supply of energy without depleting youe personal reserves of energy.)

(Repeatedly depleting your personal energy reserves can open you the healer to illnesses. If you ever feel weak or nervous stop immediately.)

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Wah doh Ogedoda (We give thanks Great Spirit)

I found this book quite informative, and the self-knowledge tests were very useful, especially to the skeptic in all of us. Laying of hands is a wonderful way to explore our own powers and this book is an excellent choice to aid us in this journey.