Healing Touch Therapy
Reported April 23, 2007
(TAMPA, Fla. (Ivanhoe Broadcast News) — Kimberly Gray is a registered nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital in Tampa, Florida. She’s also a certified healing touch therapist, and one of her jobs is to help heal leukemia patient Patricia Havenhill by balancing the energy in her body.
“When I come down to the abdominal area, I get a little tingle on my fingers right here,” says Gray.
Experts say healing touch therapy is a lot like acupuncture, but without the needles. A recent study found this type of therapy can reduce pain by 50 percent, and it can also relieve anxiety and nausea.
“You totally let your body go into almost a trance-like state,” Havenhill says.
During treatment, Gray uses a ball to demonstrate the energy flow. She says the ball lights up when the energy is connected and stops when the circuits are broken. “When there is a break in the circuit, it doesn’t do what it needs to do, and it’s the same with our physical bodies,” she says.
Beth Wells, another nurse at St. Joseph’s Hospital, says she knew about the healing touch treatment, but didn’t believe it. “I grew up in Western medicine,” she says. “If you have a boo-boo, you put a Band Aide on it.”
Then Wells gave birth to a colicky baby. Desperate to relieve her son’s pain, Wells let gray perform healing touch therapy on her son. After two hours of treatment, Wells says her baby became much more calm.
“I feel it made a huge difference,” Wells says. “He was a completely different child within 24 hours.”
Gray says healing touch therapy can help anyone who is open to it. She says patients just have to believe healing can happen.
If you would like more information, please contact:
Kimberly Gray, R.N.
Healing Touch Coordinator
St. Joseph’s Hospital
3001 W. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd.
Tampa, FL 33607
(813) 870-4766
http://www.heartcenteredpathways.com/