[healingtouchRN]

Please consider taking the Level 1 HT course esp since you are in the same area as the CCHT. You may be suprised at what you learn from these instructors. Plus, look at it from the CE stand point, it'll apply towards the AHNA hours needed for recert, & nursing license (if your state requires this). I've been a practicing CHTP for 5+ years, & involved with HT for 10 years. The mind/body/spirit/emotion is explored in the different levels. It's wonderful to experience the different instructors who come from various backgrounds. I did have the plesure & good fortune to study Advance Practice HT 1&2. Fabulous that you are studying naturopathy. I am pursuing a MS in natural healthcare & wellness. Oceans of info out there ready to be dived & explored!

Originally Posted by kitnkids

I am really glad to see this thread here!! I looked into Healing Touch after working in critical care for three years, and joined the American Holistic Nurse Association. I have not taken healing touch classes as yet, as I am more interested in Energy Medicine that explores the spiritiual aspect and mind-body connection more deeply than healing touch currently does. I do practice quantum touch, am studying naturopathic medicine and intend to take the AHNA certification exam for the Holistic Nurse certification through ANA.

I noticed with particular attention one post regarding the need for evidence based practice in Energy Medicine. Please check out the AHNA peer reviewed journal. There is evidence based practice in the field of holistic nursing and Energy Medicine. I went into nursing knowing that I would pursue this path, and almost left the field due to the lack of openness in my home state of Colorado. I have not only survived two bouts of cancer, but completely recovered from them due to energy medicine. My now 18 year old daughter experienced a very severe TBI which she has fully recovered from, despite the neurologists assertion that she would never read, write or be able to independently care for herself again.

I love that you have raised the questions in your post, and that nurses are engaging in dialouge about this very important topic.

[softstorms]

So glad to read this thread. I hope to hear more.

[birdy88]

This is a great thread! I strongly believe that there is so much more to the human body or the universe for that matter that we don't know about. Nobody disputes the facts that we have a physical, emotional and mental side to ourselves, well I think there are other dimensions that only few people in this world have really touched on- spiritual gurus for example. I think we have capabilities that are definitly unexplored. There's a great book that I read that helps put facts behind something that seems unexplainable. Its called The Way of Qigong, the Art and Science of Chinese Energy Healing. It was really interesting, i recommend it.

[PLTSGT]

Thanks for a great thread!

It is so true that society may find this alternative form of treatment as bunch of hooey, and the truth is a lot of today's modalities were considered as looney back then.

[surfchic]

Thanks for opening this discussion. I have been practicing yoga for many years and been teaching yoga to my patients, family and friends (practically anyone I come in contact with), so energy med sounds very interesting to me. I do believe in quatum physics and that we are all energy, and vibrate in different energy levels. I'm excited to join AHNA and get certified.

What job opportunites out there are available for a Holistic RN?

Thanks and abundance to everyone!

[Stanley-RN2B]

Originally Posted by PLTSGT

Thanks for a great thread!

It is so true that society may find this alternative form of treatment as bunch of hooey, and the truth is a lot of today's modalities were considered as looney back then.

The main reason society sees alternative treatment as hooey is that for so long and still a lot of it is hooey. Not to say that alternative medicine is all hooey, just that so many scam artist companies profit on hooey alternative medicine that people are wary.

If you tell me yoga helps or that acupuncture can deal with pain better than western medicine I would like to see papers and experiments.

I'm sure everyone is aware what is happening or has happened to the majority of the cancer patients that eschewed 'Western Medicine' and tried 'Eastern Medicine.' Death is not a result I would want.

Of course, if we could see proof then maybe society would accept it. Or maybe not I still smoke... Maybe just do it to me before I am aware of what you are doing and when it works I'll believe

[zenman]

Originally Posted by StanleyRW

Of course, if we could see proof then maybe society would accept it. Or maybe not I still smoke... Maybe just do it to me before I am aware of what you are doing and when it works I'll believe

Research psychologist Oakley Gordon:

“But I am a 'professional intellectual', my intellect is how I communicate with my discipline. I don't seem to be able to help trying to make sense intellectually out of the experiences I've had in Peru, or trying to establish that there is some 'truth' in them. But translation, even after the fact, from one way of understanding to the other cannot be done. Translating heart knowledge into prose kills it (poetry is better suited), and searching for 'proof' of its truth leaves one grasping at the wind.”


Eve Bruce, M.D.:

“I had witnessed complete healings of many diseases through shamanic techniques: chronic back pain, migraine headaches, allergies, alcoholism, infertility, gender difficulties, cysts, tumors and cancers, to name a few.’

She also says, “The very fact that the effectiveness of shamanic healing is not completely explainable by our scientific view of the world gives us a clue that an important breakthrough in our knowledge and understanding is possible.”

I recently read an article on double-blind studies and it relates the story of two exact studies published at the same time, in the same medical journal that showed opposite results! What’s a person to do that believes only in the double-blind bible!

[hypocaffeinemia]

Double blinds.

Mechanisms.




That or it's nothing but snake oil and cheapens our profession.


The scientific method applies to everything in life. Those that say otherwise have something to gain from deceit. Period.

[Stanley-RN2B]

Originally Posted by methylene

Double blinds.

Mechanisms.




That or it's nothing but snake oil and cheapens our profession.


The scientific method applies to everything in life. Those that say otherwise have something to gain from deceit. Period.

Indeed. In this world the scientific method is king. Everything else is bunk.

[zenman]

Originally Posted by StanleyRW

Indeed. In this world the scientific method is king. Everything else is bunk.

Having participated in double-blind studies as a patient and gathering data, I know much of what is published is already bunk. It's the best we have but every study must be taken with a grain of salt especially since no study can measure consciousness. So, in essence, they are still lacking...

Once your view of reality is rocked, you realize that the scientific community does not possess all the required knowledge.