The Therapeutic Touch Handbook: Level One-Basic

This is the first of a series of Handbooks on Therapeutic Touch by one of its greatest teachers. Diane May has taught more than 37,000 people how to support the healing process through Therapeutic Touch, one of the world's leading complementary therapies. Known for her no-nonsense clarity, May gives you a firm grasp of the fundamentals. Building on her vast experience, you'll be surprised at how fast and easily you can learn this gentle healing art and use it to enhance anything you do. Though Therapeutic Touch is at the forefront of the movement to integrate holism with western medicine, you don't have to be a health care professional to practice it. Laypeople comprise 40% of its' 100,000 practitioners in the United States and Canada alone. Individuals everywhere are are finding out how well this noninvasive approach works in preventing illness as well as managing symptoms. This beginners' manual provides the foundation you need to start doing Therapeutic Touch immediately. Modeled after Diane May's popular workshops, this book can also be used as a guide to teaching Therapeutic Touch yourself.

Diane May, a registered nurse since 1973, is a true healer for our time, blending entrepreneurial skills with her passion for teaching to help others learn to heal themselves and to support the healing process in others. She has an extensive background in long-term care administration, functioning as Head Nurse, Director of Nursing, Administrator as well as Management Consultant in the long-term care industry. In the early 1980s, Diane administered a 600-bed multi-level senior s complex, implementing many innovative programs. Diane has practiced and taught Therapeutic Touch internationally for 25 years (in colleges, universities, hospitals, hospice and numerous community agencies, teaching more than 37,000 people to date). Teaching side by side with Dolores Krieger, PhD, RN, and Dora Kunz, the co-founders of Therapeutic Touch, Diane May has moved the Therapeutic Touch method forward into unexplored territory with phenomenal success. She offered hope to the chronically ill with her own Ventures in Harmony Pain and Stress Clinic in Canada, starting in 1989, treating clients suffering chronic pain, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue, asthma, arthritis, cancer, AIDS, lupus, post-traumatic stress disorder and diabetes. Now, as the past President of the Therapeutic Touch Network of Ontario( the largest Canadian Therapeutic Touch organization) and current President/Coordinator of Therapeutic Touch International (formerly Nurse Healers-Professional Associates International, Inc. or NH-PAI, Inc.), the international Therapeutic Touch organization, she combines her foundation in Western medicine with her experience in the field of human energy to create Therapeutic Touch workshops worldwide at the most advanced levels available. Diane is the author of the popular Therapeutic Touch Handbook series: Level One -Basic and Levels Two and Three - Intermediate, and the accompaniment CD Selected Meditations and Exercises (Scribe Press, Redlands, CA). A dynamic public speaker, Diane has appeared on national television in Canada and the US, and has been published in a variety of print media.