I recently recieved a pamphlet in the mail for a "Pranic Healing" weekend seminar for healthcare providers. Course fee: $400. For $400 the course promises to teach me how to heal my patients with techniques that utilize "prana" to energize and balance the energy field... Here's an excerpt from the pamphlet:
"Pranic Healing is based on the prinicle that the body is a "self-repairing" living entity that possesses the innate ability to heal itself. It recognizes that the healing process can be accelerated by increasing the life force (vital energy, prana, chi) to affected parts of the physical body... techniques are applied to the bioelectromagnetic field known as the aura or bioplasmic body. This invisible energy field interpenetrates the physical body and extends beyond it by four or five inches. If there are blockages or imbalances in this energy field, there are corresponding changes in the physical body that may manifest as illness."
The course presenter is a "Certified Pranic Healing Instructor, a Senior Certified Pranic Healer, and coordinator of the Pranic Healing Certification Program..." Does this mean she certified herself? And if the body is a "self-repairing" entity, why does it need a pranic healer? Shouldn't it be fixing itself? And I love, "bioelectromagnetic field known as the aura or bioplasmic body," Hummm.... write that is a progress note...
If I'm ever in the ER with a stoke and a BP of 260/130 I hope my healthcare provider is using drugs to dilate my vessels or dissolve the clot, not using pranic healing. Maybe I'm just to close minded. What you all think?
Has there been any studies on TT published in a peer-reviewed journal? I might take a gander if I get time but my plate is full with shamanism, lol.
I will look into that, I know that there is little to no actual science that verifies TT, and for that very reason I don't believe it earns a place in the nursing diagnoses. I would be very interested in reading a peer reviewed study of TT, I found any yet, but will do additional research soon and get back to about it.
Speaking of shamanism, (and I know that this has little correlation to what you mean by shamanism), but I play World of Warcraft and am retired from Everquest, had a shaman character that I liked very much, lol.
In my search for peer reviewed studies of TT, I have learned something interesting. The people who say it works are loathe to have it tested, so it's very hard to find any sort of studies that are peer reviewed. I think the articles I've linked below say that around 40,000 nurses do TT, so you'd think there would be objective evidence of its efficacy.
I tried to find "neutral" articles about this issue, and that proved very difficult. Supplied below are the best I could come up with. I also want to add that, on the face of it, the skeptic articles have a very valid point that I think is being overlooked. I think scientists have to have a a skeptical mind so that it doesn't skew their conclusions, but to go into it at the outset that it isn't going to work doesn't seem to serve a good purpose either. That is why the need for objective studies need to be done in order to verify or debunk the TT issue. I find it interesting that the 40,000 people who practice it are unwilling to demonstrate the effectiveness. That, to me, is telling.
Please peruse the articles as you have the time. I've tried to be as fair as possible. I'd also be glad to read any articles you have on this issue as well. By the way, if you'd like to take this to email, please PM me and we can start a correspondence in the event this thread dies out. You interest me, lol.
The Google search terms I used were "peer reviewed TT studies", Peer reviewed TT, TT reviewed, TT studies, and Therapeutic touch studies.
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I will look into that, I know that there is little to no actual science that verifies TT, and for that very reason I don't believe it earns a place in the nursing diagnoses. I would be very interested in reading a peer reviewed study of TT, I found any yet, but will do additional research soon and get back to about it.
Speaking of shamanism, (and I know that this has little correlation to what you mean by shamanism), but I play World of Warcraft and am retired from Everquest, had a shaman character that I liked very much, lol.