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comprehensive papers presented at the Annual Meeting of the Touch for Health" Asoociation of America 5th International Annual Meeting of the Touch for Health Association of America Columbus, Ohio USA July 5-9, 1995 Touch For Health Association of America BOARD OF DIRECTORS INTERNATIONAL FACULTY PRESIDENT Robert A. Aboulache, M.A. Victoria Di Ana VICEPRESIDENT Cindy Fulton Richard Harnack CO-SECRETARy Gerri Rhoades & Judy Levin Norma Harnack TREASURER Michael Frazier John Varun Maguire MEMBERS Marge Murray ...................................... SalvadorAyala Paula Oleska ...................... Paul & Nancy Burdelsky Jim Reid, D. Min . ............................................. John Butts .................................... Irene Cummings ...................................... John McMullin As the Touch for Health family gathers from all parts of the planet for a week of sharing and renewal. We share our love and renew our friendships. We share what we are doing with touch healing and learn from others. We look forward to the next challenge in bringing touch healing to more and more people with ever increasing effectiveness. We renew our pledge to work for the good of all humanity. The purpose of the Touch For Health" Interna- Members receive all official publications. Contact tional Journal is to disseminate information on the Association office listed above for further in- research, methodology, results, and teaching of formation. self-development programs in health enhancement, both mental and physical. Further, the Journal is a Although persons and companies mentioned herein forum to provide up-to-date information on pro- are believed to be reputable, neither the Touch For grams, seminars, and activities of the Association Health Association nor any of its officers or em- and its members. The Journal is published once a ployees accepts any responsihility for conditions or year in July. circumstances resulting from use of this informa- tion. Any reader using this information does so at © 1995 Touch For Health Association, 6955 Fern- his or her own risk. The Touch For Health Associa- hill Drive, Malibu, California, 90265. Telephone: tion is not aclinic, does not give treatment, and does (310) 457-8342. All rights reserved. Portions of not train people to become therapists. The Touch the contents may be reproduced or duplicated by For Health Association has a policy of non-dis- members for instructional use only and not be crimination and admits students of any race, color, altered or sold. religion, national or ethnic origin. The Touch For Health Association is a tax-exempt, PLEASE NOTE non-profit educational corporation. Publications Most of the papers presented in this Journal are not of the Association include the Curriculum Cata- edited by the Touch for Health Association. Some logue published annually, the In Touch newsletter articles may not conform to the policies of the published quarterly, and the annual Touch for Association. Health International Journal. From the President ... As part of the Touch for Health Association membership dues, and our Annual Meeting, we submit this Journal to you. It is the work of many people dedicating the love, devotion, money and time to ensure this is a great publication. Our Association is made up of some very honorable people, people that are dedicated to Touch for Health and making the world a better place. We are especially grateful to all the authors, their insights and their willingness to share. Their devotion to healing is what makes Touchfor Health pulse with love and life. To really appreciate and get the most of these articles, attending the Annual Meeting is a must. Since Touch for Health is about Touch, being at the Meeting allows one to really learn the glory herein. We are also indebted to Mr. and Mrs. Barhydt for the hours of devotion spent in formatting and editing this Journal. They have personified the Touchfor Health heart of giving. As we grow as an Association, people like the Barhydt's have built the foundation of our success. This Journal is a small compilation of some of the successes we have attained as an Association. As a member-run organization, each of us build on the accomplishments of the other. In this manner we can achieve far more than one person alone. This Journal is filled with practical information and includes many hands-on exercises that can be incorporated into any therapeutic relationship or within our familial and personal lives. To receive the full impact of the profundity of the articles contained herein, or of those to come in the future, attending the Annual Meeting is a must. Touch for Health is people touching people, being at the Annual Meeting encourages such healing and answers the questions one might have in reading the articles. This year we have made it very easy for you to contact the author of the articles to ask them any questions you may have. You willfind the authors address and phone number at the end of each article. If you would like to receive any further information on any of the topics, or would like more information on Touchfor Health and the programs we offer, please call us at 1- 800-466-TFHA, or outside the USA at (310) 457-8342. May peace, health and enlightenment be yours always ... Robert A. Aboulache President, Touchfor Health Association of America Touch for Health International Journal, 1995 Spirit of the Healing Heart by Robert A. Aboulache Great healers, men of divine realization, do not cure by chance but by exact knowledge. Fully understanding the control of life energy, they project a stimulating current into the patient that harmonizes his own flow of life energy... Within the gross vibration of flesh is the fine vibration of the cosmic current, the life energy, and permeating both flesh and life energy is the most subtle vibration, that of consciousness. - Paramahansa Yogananda- Introduction: ing through all our cells, motivating and mod- Touch for Health honors the universal life ifying our very being. When we add that energy that flows through all living things. " permeating both flesh and life energy We know that the human body is a conduit to is consciousness", we begin to empower this energy flow. We honor the flow of life as ourselves to direct the flow, meaning and pur- we experience it. And in that honor we gain pose of life energy. the strength of awareness in life energy as it manifests within and around us. The spirit of the healing heart is a conscious- ness of compassion, integrity and honor. Like We draw from many philosophies as we Yin/Yang, it is both receptive and giving. define Touch for Health, and the Spirit of the Being in this state directs the flow of energy Healing Heart. That is the beauty of Touch to harmonize and balance its integrity with all for Health, it is open in integrity to fully its interactions. evolve as a healing art. This gives us the strength of the universe at our fingertips, "the The influence of consciousness on universal force is with us." Our challenge in "... fully life energy is like dye to water. If you place a understanding the control of life energy..." is small drop of dye into a glass of water, soon keeping conscious of it, in all its subtleties. all the water will be tainted by the coloring. In parallel, if we apply the spirit of the heal- Touch for Health embraces the Eastern per- ing heart to our relationships (inner and with spective of the Five-Element System as an others) we will penetrate the universal life integrated metaphor to the life energy flow of force with love and compassion. We would the human body. We know that it travels be nurturing the force to interact with other through all our living tissues via meridian's elements in the same manner, manifesting and through organs, muscle and bone. The healing by harmonizing the flow of life ener- energy flow of life as it moves through us gy with love. Like the dye/water principle, affects the elements in interaction. To the consciousness/interaction parallel acknowledge this truth is to realize that a becomes the way. communication of elemental energy is evolv- 1 Touch for Health International Journal, 1995 Body: greatest potential. As a healer, one must con- What is "The Spirit of the Healing Heart"? tinue to strengthen oneself in integrity, hon- To define such a profundity, we must esty, and compassion. This goes beyond acknowledge that Spirit, in fact, does exist information and cognitive knowing into within and around us. It penetrates our being. experiential awareness and sensitivity train- It harmonizes with others, and like two candle ing. flames joined together, when two or more spirits join a greater existence emerges. Summary: The Spirit of the healing heart is a state of Spirit of the healing heart goes beyond the being that is sensitive to and honoring of life individual and includes all other interactive energy. It is a presence that is directly linked elemental forces and beings. If you, as the to inner awareness. Acknowledging this healer, are in touch with your love, honor, presence strengthens one's influence on life compassion and integrity (emanations of the energy as it interacts with and through one- spirit of the healing heart), your being will self. directly influence the person being balanced. The importance and power of your presence Nurturing oneself in this healing awareness, must not be underestimated. Just by your is a lifetime of learning. Learning goes being, you influence others around you. beyond information assimilation and into inner awareness. Any technique or method- In order to nurture the presence of the spirit of ology that embraces life as it manifests with- the healing heart, one must make growth and in and around us, in all its forms, will accen- consciousness awareness a way of life.