Hands-on healing in movie

[donq]

Hands-on healing on movie

I personally prefer Therapeutic Touch to Hands-on healing, as the latter sounds a bit too religious and not everyone can do it. Anyway, I haven't done anything with it for decades. But recently, while I was watching the scene in Christian (2022-TV series), I felt my left hand (I'm left-handed) was warming with energy. I used to feel like that while I was watching Carnivàle, another TV series, also about Hands-on healing.

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(Sorry about the video's quality. And I did cut it a bit and add a bit to match the song, so that you don't see some of it that is irrelevant if you didn't see the whole movie).


Below is a true story of Therapeutic Touch I read two decades ago and liked it a lot. I believe that any technique is just a technique. The necessity seems to be the best ingredient/technique. When, and only when, we could be able to help someone in need.


ONE NURSE'S STORY - HOW I CAME TO TT (Therapeutic Touch)
It was 4.00 as I eat down with a hot beverage at the nurses' station
to start my charting. My eyes drifted down the long, dark hall at the
Cancer Research Institute at the University of California and stopped
at the door out of which I had come 5 minutes before. I tried to form
the words in my mind that I would put in the chart of Joan, the 33-
year-old woman whom I had known as a patient with leukaemia for
over a year. Joan had experienced two remissions but was no win the
hospital with a liver abscess. She had been admitted almost 72 hours
before, on my shift and, as in her admissions before, I was her
primary nurse. I identifled with Joan in her role as a mother and wife,
and greatly admired her courage In the way she approached her
physical disease with her use of meditation, yoga and other
'alternative' approaches in her quest towards healing. She had been a
wise teacher, not only to me but to many other world expert
oncologists. A good deal of my time had been spent with her for the
last 8 hours (we worked 12 hour shifts), for In spite of every known
trick or technique or medication known to modern science available in
a University Teaching Hospital, Joan was still not only febrile (up to
40°C), but was in intense pain - tossing, turning, moaning on her
bed, unable to fall into sleep. While searching my repertoire for some
way in which I could relieve her pain and give her some comfort, I
remembered a class in Therapeutic Touch I had taken a few months
earlier. At the time I hadn't felt I could integrate the technique into my
high-tech nursing. It had been interesting but I felt I couldn't do
Therapeutic Touch as well as the others in the class and also was not
sure how it matched with my concept of nursing. To tell the truth, I
was a little in awe or afraid of the whole Idea. But Dee's [Dolores
Krieger's] words came back to me, 'Anyone can do TT, anyone can
use TT to increase comfort and decrease anxiety'. Joan was beyond
judging me, so I gave it a go. I did TT with Joan for the next 10
minutes.
She had fallen asleep and here I was now wondering how to put
into words the complexities of the whole interaction. I put her chart
aside and did routine charting on my other patients. And then, a half
hour later, Joan's light went on.What could I possibly do for her that I
hadn't already done, I thought as I walked the distance to her room.
'Could you change my wet bedding?' Joan said sleepily as I walked
in. Joan had been sweating profusely, her temperature had broken
and was now 38°C and her pain was completely gone. I was 'blown
away'. The next day my clinical supervisor and I went through all her
notes to find some other explanation - not only for Joan's pain relief
but for the normalisation of her temperature. We did not find it but,
over the rest of Joan's hospitalisation, TT administered either by me
or her husband, to whom I taught TT, was used to keep her free of
pain and her temperature acceptable (along with the appropriate
medications which had not been working before).
I know there could be many explanations for what occurred, but
none seem to fit with what happened that night. All I know is, it
seemed to work. I was able to help someone in need.
-Jean Sayre-Adams

[hera]

Thanks for sharing this donq I found it interesting because on a couple of occasions recently I have been praying for someone and felt my hands start to become very warm. They reported that they were feeling much better afterwards which may, of course, have been a coincidence but I'm a firm believer in energy in the form of thought being as strong as physical energy, so perhaps my prayer helped.

In the same vein, I believe that our thoughts about anything are equal to actions so we need to remember that thinking badly about people/situations can have negative effects and may cause harm.

Just my 2c

[donq]

Hi Hera,

Once I talked to Karen, our friends and prior moderator here, who also was a long time Reiki healer. She said that the power (or energy) to heal doesn't come from the healer, but from somewhere else (from universal energy?). Or in hypnosis, some experienced (medical) hypnotists agreed that the power to heal came from the patients themselves, not the hypnotists. The hypnotists just help them to tune in by their suggestions.

That said, I always wonder about my warm hand when focusing on every healing. Where does it come from?

Below is another hands-on healing scene from Carnivàle-TV series (2003). It's interesting that in this movie, when the power to heal is drawn from somewhere, it will also affect and damage/kill something there (in the scene, crows/vultures).

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P.S. Agree about negative effects of bad thinking.
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