Why Hands-On Healing?
Unless they've been physically, emotionally or sexually abused, people usually like to be touched. The single most basic instinct a person has when receiving an injury is to put his or her hand on the place where there's pain.
When a child falls and hurts her knee, her mother will invariably put her hand there and might even kiss it to make it feel better. This feeling of love is something we all want — to be nurtured and cared for. Babies in hospitals and people in old age homes alike, die from the lack of it. Touch can bring about healing on many levels. It’s interesting to note that when we say something is "touching" we’re usually referring to feeling affected on an emotional or spiritual level. We’re also commenting on how this experience is changing our own energy.
This feeling of warm energy coming out of a healer's hands and entering
a client's body is a personally shared sensation, which isn't felt as
readily when receiving distance healing.