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Healing Touch

By GoodTherapy Team — 2016

Healing Touch, a type of energy therapy utilizing gentle touch to enhance and facilitate health of the mind, body, and spirit, is based on the idea that humans are made up of energy. This energy is believed to have an effect on healing, as imbalances and disturbances in the body, mind, or spirit may block its natural flow.

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