33a Aswegan Healing Touch
33a Aswegan Healing Touch
33a Aswegan Healing Touch
OBJECTIVES:
INDICATIONS:
Facilitation of wound healing
Reduction of acute/chronic pain
Decrease anxiety, tension and stress
Preparation for medical treatments and procedures and to manage side-effects
Support for the dying process
HT may be used with individuals of all ages and stages of health and illness
Mary Jane Aswegan Intro to HT and Healing Assessment tool: Original 2005---revised 07/08/11
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As of 2010 there are over 100,000 individuals who have been trained in the program and there are
over 300 Certified Healing Touch Instructors offering the program throughout the world.
ENERGY FIELDS (BIOFIELD/AURA): Every person has a physical body and a subtle body
comprised of many layers or fields of energy referred to as the biofield.
Etheric: ¼ -2 inches from the body. It is made up of light blue/gray lines of force. It duplicates
the physical body
Emotional: 1-3 inches from the body. Appears as clouds of fine substance rainbow colors
Mental: 3-8 inches from the body and appears as fine structural lines that are yellow in color
Spiritual: Made up of 4 more layers, which help us relate to higher dimensions. Extends about
24 inches from the body. Spiritually evolved persons, like Mother Teresa or Ghandi were able to
extend their auras even further out.
ENERGY CENTERS (CHAKRAS): There are 7 energy centers located from the base of the spine to
the top of the head. Chakra is a Sanskrit word, meaning wheel or disk. It is a spinning vortex of
energy, which moves clockwise in rotation. These energy centers interface between the
biofield/glands and organs of the physical body
ENERGY TRACTS (MERIDIANS): These are lines of force, which intersect through the entire body
and relate to the nervous and endocrine systems. Acupuncture uses these lines. Healing Touch
primarily works with the Energy Fields and Energy Centers.
BASIC TERMINOLOGY
CENTERED; One is centered when one is fully present and in touch with the self. One is calm and
open
HEALING: Is the process of altering the mind, body, emotional and spiritual health positively.
INTUITION: The ability to receive information beyond the five senses
MEDITATION: Centering, connecting with the self and being open for guidance
UNCONDITIONAL LOVE: Being open to another without expectation and having intention for their
highest good
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Potential for illness appears in the Energy System before physical signs appear
The healing act is a sacred process
Healing Touch takes place within the self and is influenced by the persons receiving and giving
The environment and person are interactive
Becoming centered and grounded are the first steps to facilitate a healing
The Energy System may be perceived through the visual, auditory and/or kinesthetic senses or
intuition
A person can influence the Energy System without being able to see or feel it
The Energy System is influenced by the environment, thoughts, emotions and actions of the self and
others
The healers perceptions become a teacher guiding the practice of Healing Touch
Becoming a healer is an internal and external process of self development that is individualistic
QUOTES
“The road to health is through moderation, harmony, a sound mind in a sound body.”
Hippocrates 160-377 B.C.
“Each patient carries his own doctor inside him. They come to us not knowing that truth. We are
at our best when we give the doctor who resides within each patient a chance to go to work.”
Albert Schweitzer
REFERENCES:
1. Dorthea Hover-Kramer; Janet Mentgen, Healing Touch: A Guidebook for Practitioners, Delmar
Publishers 2002 second edition
2. Course materials from Healing Touch International, Inc Including Student Workbooks for Levels 1-5,
2010
3. Barbara Brennan, “Hands of Light” Bantam Books, 1988
4. Dr. W.Brugh Joy, “Joy’s Way: A Map for the Transformational Journey” Jeremy Tarcher, Inc. 1979
5. Healing Touch International website at www.healingtouchinternational.org
Mary Jane Aswegan Intro to HT and Healing Assessment tool: Original 2005---revised 07/08/11
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Healing Touch
Mary Jane Aswegan, RN, CHTP/I
My Self-Healing Assessment
Date: _________________________________
As I am assessing my Lifestyle health today, this is what I see without judging myself:
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Guide for Using Healing Assessment to Transformation Exercise
This exercise helps you to look at yourself more holistically from a physical, emotional,
mental and spiritual perspective.
Physical Assessment: Do a body scan, notice areas of weakness, pain, stress. Do you feel
you have enough energy to support you? Be honest without judging. You can rate yourself on
a scale of 0-10 with 0 being no energy to 10 feeling you have a lot of energy to carry through
your activities in life. Where do you think you fall on that scale?
Emotional Assessment: Are you happy most of the time or are you sad, depressed?
You can rate 0-10 with 0 being sad, depressed to 10 feeling happy and vital. Where do you
think you fall in that scale?
Mental Assessment: Do you mostly have more positive or negative thought forms? Are you
more optimistic about life or are you more pessimistic? Rate yourself with 0 being negative
thinking and 10 more positive thinking. Where do you fall without judgment?
Spiritual Assessment: Do you feel that you are spiritually connected? This does not mean
religion. Do you just feel a connection to something higher than yourself? In the 0-10 scale 0
would mean you do not feel a connection to 10 feeling a strong connection, again without
judgment.
Pain, Anxiety and Stress can always be rated also on a 0-10 scale with 0 being absolutely no
pain, anxiety or stress to 10 being the worst in those areas.
When evaluating pain give the location, think about what you were doing when pain occurred.
What makes it worse? What makes it better?
When evaluating anxiety--what causes you to be anxious and what do you do to relieve that
anxiety? What would it look like for you to be less anxious?
When evaluating stress, is it related to work or personal issues? Where in the body do you
seem to hold your stress? (Back, neck, shoulders, TMJ joint—grinding teeth etc) What do you
do to relieve stress? What could you do to relieve stress?
Remember to do your assessment without judgment. Then be the observer—just notice things.
Often you can perhaps change the way you look at something. Sometimes when you ask
yourself to see it differently, it changes. Wayne Dyer says, “When you change the way you look
at things, the things you look at change.”
Mary Jane Aswegan Intro to HT and Healing Assessment tool: Original 2005---revised 07/08/11
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