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<strong>February</strong> <strong>2007</strong> Issue no. 9<br />
magazine<br />
TM<br />
The Official Publication Of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Program<br />
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<strong>Taking</strong> a <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> <strong>Level</strong> 5 Class:<br />
Completion, Celebration & Commitment<br />
Also in this Issue:<br />
Staying Conscious in an Unconscious World<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Empowering Lives in Peru<br />
JudyTurner and the <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Program
Table of Contents<br />
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HTP Contact Directory<br />
A Letter from the Program Director<br />
Our Contributors<br />
Staying Conscious in an Unconscious World<br />
<strong>Taking</strong> A HT <strong>Level</strong> 5 Class: Completion, Celebration & Commitment<br />
Judy Turner and the <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Program<br />
With Heartfelt Thanks to Judy Turner<br />
A Note from Cynthia Hutchison, HT Program Director<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Empowering Lives in Peru<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Tidbits: The Meaning of the CHTP Pin and more<br />
A Rocket Scientist in <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>?<br />
Featured <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Instructor<br />
Jackie Mielke<br />
Money As <strong>Energy</strong><br />
The <strong>2007</strong> <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Class Schedule<br />
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HTP Contact Directory<br />
General Info<br />
Classes in your area<br />
Student Questions<br />
Web Support<br />
P.O. Box 16189 • Golden, Colorado 80402<br />
Phone 303-989-0581<br />
Fax 303-985-9702<br />
E-Mail: info@<strong>Healing</strong><strong>Touch</strong>Program.com<br />
Web Site: www.<strong>Healing</strong><strong>Touch</strong>Program.com<br />
info@<strong>Healing</strong><strong>Touch</strong>Program.com<br />
Contact your Instructor or any Certified <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Instructor<br />
Webmaster@<strong>Healing</strong><strong>Touch</strong>Program.com<br />
Instructor/Coordinators Info<br />
Scheduling Classes<br />
HTP Sponsored Classes<br />
Web Scheduling Changes<br />
Class Supplies Ordering<br />
Certificates<br />
Instructor Agreements<br />
Instructor Support<br />
Instructors in Training<br />
Instructor Advancement<br />
Introduction Classes<br />
Instructor Quality Assurance<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Curriculum<br />
International Instructor Support<br />
International Business Support<br />
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info@<strong>Healing</strong><strong>Touch</strong>Program.com<br />
Carolyn@<strong>Healing</strong><strong>Touch</strong>Program.com<br />
Instructor@<strong>Healing</strong><strong>Touch</strong>Program.com<br />
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Cynthia@<strong>Healing</strong><strong>Touch</strong>Program.com<br />
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cover photo: courtesy of Jane Myers, HT <strong>Level</strong> 4/5 class, Atlanta, GA, January <strong>2007</strong> (see pg 8)<br />
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Greetings from Cynthia Hutchison<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Program Director<br />
Welcome to the <strong>February</strong> issue of <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>…<br />
Just yesterday I returned from a ten day visit to the Hawaiian islands where a <strong>Level</strong> 5 class that I taught was sandwiched<br />
by a few days on either end for exploring this beauteous land. I gratefully embraced some quality downtime and an opportunity<br />
for adventure and healing. <strong>Taking</strong> time for self-care is a major principle in the development of the <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
Practitioner so the ten days without a computer was a welcome change and respite.<br />
One of my most treasured experiences occurred as I was leaving a quiet, pristine beach with 20 foot magnificent waves to<br />
drive to the airport for the departure back to Colorado. I said to my friend who was walking ahead of me for this (literally)<br />
last minute of my time on the beach “Oh, I wish I had a container to take some sand home with me”. Beverly was just fifteen<br />
feet in front of me leading the way back to the parking lot. In less than thirty seconds, she stopped and starting laughing<br />
out loud as I approached her with curiosity. I followed her eyes as she looked straight down to her feet to see a one gallon<br />
clear plastic bag ¾ buried under the sand generously brimming over with the beautiful tan-colored pure wet sand which<br />
was being washed over by the waves. My request was literally answered in approximately thirty seconds, not only with the<br />
container, but with the contents already supplied of what I wanted the container to hold. This event was the final exclamation<br />
mark of a life-enhancing ten days in this nurturing, etheric group of magical islands. I gleefully dug the bag out of the<br />
sand, released part of its contents and resealed the bag for travel back to Boulder, Colorado.<br />
I wish to impart to you the message the bag of sand had for me….Out of joy, gratitude and sincere desire for fullness of<br />
life and experience of beauty, express your heart’s wishes to “the Universe” (or whatever word works for you) and be open<br />
to surprises and answered prayers of unexpected and abundant dimensions…<br />
As I read this month’s articles of <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong> I perceived the same themes I associate with my “bag of sand” story.<br />
Each author in writing about how HT changed his/her life was open to life’s offerings, finding lessons, beauty, truth and goodness<br />
in people, things and situations and each described surprise gifts that we know come to those with an open heart, mind<br />
and body. Thank you to Judy, Anne, Dave, Jackie, Marilee and Michaela for your inspiring stories of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>.<br />
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Our Contributors<br />
David Barnett, is an honest-to-goodness rocket scientist and still enjoys the surprise on<br />
people’s faces in <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> classes. He has been involved with alternative healing since<br />
the early 1980’s and has worked in many modalities. David’s article, A Rocket Scientist in<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>?, tells of how he was introduced to <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> and where it has taken him.<br />
Anne Day, RN, MA, HNC, CHTP/I, has over 35 years experience as a holistically oriented<br />
nurse and health educator. Her article, <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Empowering Lives in Peru, tells of her<br />
recent travels to Peru to teach a <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> <strong>Level</strong> 4 class. Read about her experiences<br />
with the local people and the journey that they are taking iwith <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>.<br />
Michaela Donohue, RN, CNM, MS, CHTP/I, is a <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> practitioner and instructor<br />
in the metropolitan Washington, DC area. Her article, Staying Conscious in an<br />
Unconscious World, will give you some easy ways to stay away from la la land and bring<br />
back your focus to the present so your whole self can experience all parts of day to day life.<br />
Jackie Mielke, BS, CHTP/I, CAHI, teaches continuing education for nurses and allied<br />
health professionals in the Minnesota Community and Technical College System and is a conference<br />
and seminar presenter since 1987. She is also our Featured <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Instructor for<br />
<strong>February</strong>. Read along as she reveals how she came to be involved with <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> and what<br />
experiences promted her to become an Instructor.<br />
Marilee Tolen, RN, HNC, CHTP/I, is the author of our monthly column, Money as<br />
<strong>Energy</strong>. In this month’s column, Vibrate What You Want, Marilee talks about the<br />
Law of Attration and how we can use it to attract money into our lives with real,<br />
simple techniques.<br />
Judy Turner, RN, BS, HNC, CHTP/I, is retiring from her position as <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
Program’s Director of Program Integrity. Her article, Judy Turner and the <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
Program, reflects on her introduction to Janet Mentgen and <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>, where it has<br />
taken her and what the future will hold as she shifts from one chapter of her life to the next.<br />
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Staying Conscious<br />
Staying Conscious in<br />
an Unconscious World<br />
by Michaela Donohue, RN, CNM, MS, CHTP/I<br />
Are you one of those people who<br />
likes to zone out during your <strong>Healing</strong><br />
<strong>Touch</strong> session? Do you go off into la<br />
la land? Or is it your partner or friend<br />
or client who likes that and who,<br />
perhaps, has no idea of his or her<br />
physical body, where its boundaries<br />
lie, how each part feels?<br />
I write this in the middle of the night on the one-year anniversary<br />
of my fall into unconsciousness, a fall in which I broke<br />
my arm leading to a chronic pain condition of the central<br />
nervous system. Not fun, I assure you, but resolving.<br />
It was a rainy, windy day and I raced outside to do something<br />
I had forgotten to do. The wind blew my umbrella<br />
inside out--it was that kind of a day. And I slipped, fell, and<br />
felt the kind of pain that told me it was a break.<br />
About a month later, I got in touch with my intuition and knew<br />
it was a lack of consciousness that caused my fall. That lack<br />
of consciousness still causes problems. And lately I’ve been<br />
dealing with pain in my hip. I know that pain is telling me<br />
something…that part of my body is unconscious and the<br />
pain is the messenger calling me to consciousness.<br />
I live in the DC area, an area of great unconsciousness.<br />
When you walk down the street it is common to note the<br />
signs of bodily unconsciousness…the head leads and the<br />
rest of the body follows. The person is deep in thought,<br />
probably the usual random thoughts, the ones that tend to<br />
take over, even during meditation.<br />
Last night I was awakened by a dream in which my brother-in-law’s<br />
partner was telling me she was worried about<br />
him. She had noticed that he was developing that telltale<br />
hump in his upper back. She was afraid he would fall. I<br />
agreed and knew it was important to teach him some ways<br />
of bringing this awareness to his body so he wouldn’t fall<br />
and be disabled.<br />
When I woke, I began to write. The following are some<br />
suggestions (for myself as well as for you) to bring us to<br />
greater bodily consciousness and therefore to greater<br />
awareness and mindfulness.<br />
When “out-for-a-walk,” practice focusing on each sense…<br />
seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting. Focus on<br />
one sense at a time. It would probably be easiest to start<br />
with seeing, but for our purpose…begin with feeling.<br />
Start with the toes, bringing your attention to them, only<br />
the toes. Which can you feel? Which are unconscious?<br />
Move gradually up the legs, one at a time, noticing all<br />
aspects including the calves, back and front of the knees,<br />
front and back of the thighs, hips, buttocks and so on.<br />
Continue until you have brought attention to the whole<br />
body, one aspect at a time. Keep the other senses diminished,<br />
focusing only on feeling different aspects of the<br />
continued on page 7<br />
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Staying Conscious<br />
body. Then, if it’s a very long walk, try only seeing, only<br />
hearing (first close and then far away sounds), only tasting<br />
and only smelling.<br />
Use your massage table to give to and receive from your<br />
partner. Notice what his or her touch feels like, what pressure<br />
you like to give or receive, focusing first on just one<br />
part of the body. Then compare it to another part. Don’t try<br />
to do the whole body at one sitting. Ask for what you need.<br />
Stay aware the whole time. Take turns.<br />
If you have no partner, get on the table and imagine you<br />
are being touched in particular areas. Can you imagine<br />
someone pulling on your big toe? Do you have consciousness<br />
in your big toe? What about your lower back ribs on<br />
the left? Move the area to bring awareness, and then focus<br />
on it when it is still. What sensations do you feel?<br />
experiences with body consciousness. We’ll follow-up and<br />
perhaps print your ideas in our next article. What have you<br />
tried? What works for you? Do you think this is important,<br />
why or why not? E<br />
Michaela’s Bio:<br />
Michaela is a <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> practitioner and instructor in<br />
the metropolitan Washington, DC area. Her career has<br />
included many years in the health care field as a nurse,<br />
nurse-midwife, university faculty member, co-founder of a<br />
healing center, writer, researcher and presenter at national<br />
conferences. Since she was introduced to therapeutic<br />
touch in the mid-eighties and healing touch in the early<br />
nineties, energy healing has been a focus of her work.<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> is the center around which her use of other<br />
complementary modalities, especially sound, circle. She<br />
loves teaching and mentoring students and brings all of<br />
who she is to her work in the world.<br />
Receive an off-the-body HT session with your eyes closed.<br />
Give verbal feedback to the practitioner about your physical<br />
awareness. Were the practitioner’s hands in the area you felt<br />
shifts? Could you tell where his/her hands were? Did certain<br />
parts of your body become more conscious during the session?<br />
Did pain diminish? Increase? Be sure to let go of judgments<br />
and even attempts to understand or give meaning to<br />
your observations. Use one session just for this.<br />
Michaela has served <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> International as a<br />
member of the Certification Review Panel and continues to<br />
promote the mission of spreading healing light worldwide.<br />
E-Mail: michaeladonohue@starpower.net<br />
www.michaeladonohue.com<br />
Take a yoga class and try to spend the entire class time on<br />
awareness. Notice how often your attention wanders.<br />
Notice what parts of your body are asking for your attention.<br />
Spend some time each day massaging yourself—perhaps<br />
only 5 minutes. Focus this week on your feet, next week<br />
your lower legs, the following on your belly, etc.<br />
We are here at this time in physical body. There is a reason<br />
we were given this body. Appreciate it and love it. Pay attention<br />
to all its messages. Notice any areas that you reject. Be<br />
compassionate when it is having problems. Befriend it and<br />
ask its help when you need it to perform in a certain way.<br />
Forgive it when it doesn’t meet your expectations.<br />
Let’s stay in dialogue. Email me with your suggestions or<br />
<strong>2007</strong> HTAC National Conference<br />
& Canadian Instructors Meeting<br />
April 27-29, <strong>2007</strong><br />
Horseshoe Resort, Barrie, Ontario<br />
Keynote Speaker: Dr. Jean Watson<br />
Breakout Sessions pertinent to conference theme<br />
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<strong>Taking</strong> a<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
<strong>Level</strong> 5 Class<br />
HT <strong>Level</strong> 5 Class<br />
Completion, Celebration & Commitment<br />
“<br />
<strong>Level</strong> 5 was a real fulfillment for me...I found various support groups. There<br />
were many connections, synchronicities and openings for me through<br />
these groups. I used the manifestation wheel from <strong>Level</strong> 4. This program is designed<br />
to bring magic into your life...We come to see that we are beings of Light that can<br />
help heal the world."<br />
- <strong>Level</strong> 5 student<br />
<strong>Level</strong> 5 is a time of completion, celebration and commitment to continued progress and<br />
excellence. Assignments which were completed during the apprenticeship period are<br />
submitted and evaluated for course completion. This session is designed to acknowledge<br />
the student’s work and offer constructive suggestions for continued improvement.<br />
Celebration occurs as the student is acknowledged, appreciated and validated for the<br />
dedicated work accomplished during the apprenticeship period. Upon satisfactory completion<br />
of all work, the student receives a Certificate of Completion for the <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
Program and achieves the <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Practitioner status. (HTP)<br />
This class also prepares students to understand the certification process and criteria.<br />
Further steps toward certification as a <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Practitioner is optional. <strong>Level</strong> 5<br />
assists the student in evaluating their progress and level of commitment to the certification<br />
process.<br />
Who can take a<br />
<strong>Level</strong> 5 class?<br />
If you have a desire to complete the program and achieve <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Practitioner<br />
(HTP) status, this course if for you.<br />
Students who completed <strong>Level</strong>s 1-4 classes, and are in an active mentorship process as<br />
a <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> apprentice; and have completed assignments listed in the <strong>Level</strong> 4 course<br />
materials may attend <strong>Level</strong> 5.<br />
The time between <strong>Level</strong> 4 and 5 became a personal journey. I am different<br />
now that i was at <strong>Level</strong> 4. Allow the personal journey to happen...I have<br />
learned to release judgments of others and of myself because I have become more<br />
heart-centered and I can now allow people to be who they really are."<br />
“- <strong>Level</strong> 5 student<br />
“<br />
I felt overwhelmed at first with the homework to be done before level 5, but<br />
as i got into the process and the work, I learned how to respect the process<br />
and requirements. Everything we were given to do was profound. Trust in that."<br />
- <strong>Level</strong> 5 student<br />
continued<br />
on page 9<br />
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HT <strong>Level</strong> 5 Class<br />
What will I learn?<br />
In Addition<br />
You Will:<br />
• How to appraise and describe your personal and professional development as a<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Practitioner in a group setting.<br />
• How to present yourself as a practitioner of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> in a group setting.<br />
• A deeper understanding of the HT International standards of practice, code of ethics<br />
and scope of practice, and how it applies to your practice.<br />
• How to present and evaluate an in-depth case study to <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> colleagues,<br />
utilizing the ten steps of the <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Sequence.<br />
• How to present and evaluate: complementary modalities, readings and research that<br />
enhance one’s understanding of HT, energy medicine and healing; and HT related<br />
community service and networking activities.<br />
• What are the principles, values and personal impact of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> mentorship<br />
based on actual experience.<br />
• How to deepen your <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> skills through an energetic understanding<br />
of group healing.<br />
• How to further develop your <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Practice and progress toward certification<br />
if desired.<br />
• Receive constructive feedback from your instructor.<br />
• Share your personal experiences of growth and development as a <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
Practitioner in a supportive and enthusiastic learning environment.<br />
• Share your professional profile notebook in presentation form to your classmates and<br />
instructor.<br />
• Experience <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> group healing as a practitioner and a recipient.<br />
• Enjoy deepening relationships, networking and making new friends in a comfortable<br />
retreat setting condusive to learning and socialization.<br />
• Celebrate! Celebrate! Celebrate! with your <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> peers and instructor.<br />
<strong>Level</strong> 5 is offered in a retreat setting to allow for greater focus on learning with an opportunity<br />
to further evaluate progress and provide self care. This is intended to provide the<br />
environment and time to celebrate accomplishment.<br />
From our cover: <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
<strong>Level</strong> 4/5 class, Atlanta,GA,<br />
January <strong>2007</strong>. Students and<br />
Instructors: Lynn Cleek, Tammy<br />
Dragel, Kimberly Gray, Barbara<br />
Henthorn, Margaretta Jennings,<br />
Katherine D. McQuiston, Marnie<br />
Morrison, Jane Myers, Janice<br />
Poret, Gina Pursley, Donna M.<br />
Sanders, Jane Schroeder, Mary<br />
Soete, Linda C. Wolfrom, Barbara<br />
Barsin, Jaclyn E. Chrisholm, Carol<br />
Murphy, Diana O’Neil, Cherry<br />
Pfau, Annie Prescott, Tracy<br />
Wyrick, Ydo Yumart, Cynthia<br />
Hutchison and Judy Turner.<br />
Through the <strong>Level</strong> 4 - 5 homework, I learned pacing in my life and how to<br />
stop and really listen and learn what the gift was in each event and each<br />
assignment."<br />
“- <strong>Level</strong> 5 student<br />
The whole process is so beautiful. Be present. There are so many lessons."<br />
“- <strong>Level</strong> 5 student<br />
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Judy Turner and HTP<br />
Judy Turner<br />
and the <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Program<br />
by Judy Turner, RN, BS, HNC, CHTP/I<br />
A s I leave my administrative position<br />
with <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Program, I reflect on<br />
the 10 years of my employment, how I<br />
first met Janet Mentgen, and how this has<br />
shaped my life. My retirement is not really<br />
a leaving but a shift in emphasis,<br />
because I plan to teach more and include<br />
some volunteer work. I will remain on the<br />
HT Program Curriculum Committee along<br />
with Anne Day, Myra Tovey and Cynthia<br />
Hutchison. We will serve as the Wisdom<br />
Keepers.<br />
My initial interest in <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> grew out of my desire<br />
to be a Holistic Nurse and to “walk my talk” many years<br />
ago. This led me to take Therapeutic <strong>Touch</strong> classes from<br />
Janet Mentgen and her associates in 1986. I became<br />
fascinated by what Janet could sense and perceive. I<br />
traveled from Greeley to Denver often, just to take her<br />
classes. I went to Shadowcliff at Grand Lake every year<br />
to attend her retreats. I met wonderful friends from<br />
around the country who then grew with me into becoming<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Instructors. I think I wanted to<br />
become an Instructor from my very first class. so that I<br />
could inspire people the way Janet had inspired me and<br />
so many others.<br />
I moved to Denver in 1989 to pursue certification as a<br />
Practitioner and Instructor because it was only offered<br />
there at that time. Janet was constantly challenging me<br />
with new horizons and new opportunities but she never<br />
said “You should do this or that”. It was always presented<br />
as a possibility. In an effort to repay her generosity<br />
and kindness, I volunteered to help her with some of the<br />
paperwork associated with her increasing teaching<br />
schedule. This then grew into 4 to 6 of us who met weekly<br />
at Janet’s house to stuff envelopes, fold fliers, stamp<br />
mailings and assemble handouts. Within a few months<br />
Janet said she felt she was now financially able to hire a<br />
secretary and she chose Francina Ortiz, who had been<br />
part of this weekly group.<br />
As I was moving through my 10 weeks of <strong>Level</strong> 3A and<br />
3B (now known as 4 and 5), Janet encouraged me to<br />
take all the classes of <strong>Level</strong> 1, 2A (2) and 2B (3) again. I<br />
got into the habit of attending every class that was<br />
offered in the Denver area. My life was becoming totally<br />
focused on <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>. I enjoyed the excitement of<br />
seeing people open to new ”Aha’s” and possibilities for<br />
their lives. I learned something new every time myself.<br />
continued on page 11<br />
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Judy Turner and HTP<br />
Janet invited me to go to the first Instructor Training (<strong>Level</strong> 4)<br />
at Shadowcliff in Grand Lake in 1990 even though I was not<br />
a certified practitioner as yet. She said it would be good for<br />
me to meet everyone and begin to prepare to become an<br />
instructor. It was a life changing event as many can attest to.<br />
Some of my dearest friendships were started at that class. I<br />
subsequently went to the next two Instructor Trainings at<br />
Shadowcliff as I was preparing for my certifications as a<br />
CHTP and CHTI.<br />
My “day job” as she called it was as a Nursing Supervisor on<br />
the evening shift at a nearby Psychiatric Hospital. I started at<br />
a 32 hour a week position so I could develop my HT practice<br />
and I cut back to 28 hours so I could manage the HT clinic<br />
on Tuesday evenings. I suggested to Janet that we have it<br />
every other Tuesday and she said “No, it must be every<br />
week. Be consistent and people will count on it and come”<br />
(Hmmmm, If you build it, they will come). My teaching<br />
assignments started increasing and I was being challenged<br />
to switch week-ends more frequently with my job share partner.<br />
She was good about it but I began to feel guilty. In spring<br />
of 1997, Janet asked if I was now willing to leave my “day<br />
Above: <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Curies Hawaii January 2005. Janet<br />
Mentgen, Judy Turner, Jack Elisa, Jean Cotten (Janet's sister)<br />
and Myra Tovey.<br />
job” and join her staff full time. I said I’d like to do that and<br />
what would my title be? She said “Program Director”. So<br />
after we agreed on hours, salary and job responsibilities, I left<br />
and told Francina, “I’m the new Program Director”. She said<br />
“No Judy, you can’t be, that is Janet’s title!” So I went back<br />
to Janet and we finally agreed on the title “Program<br />
Coordinator”. I still laugh at that. Janet was so unconcerned<br />
about image and titles.<br />
Above: Judy Turner demostrating a <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> technique to<br />
students in Peru.<br />
My teaching schedule increased and I was gone about twice<br />
a month. Basically our office time was Tuesday, Wednesday<br />
and Thursday. I was grateful that we had had the earlier years<br />
to build the base of how to teach the program. It isn’t what I<br />
know or what I say but how to teach it in a way that captures<br />
the imagination of the student so that they want to learn<br />
more and more. This I learned from Janet. I was fascinated<br />
by how she did this and I wanted to emulate her. I loved<br />
doing <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> but teaching it so others came to love<br />
doing it (and then maybe teach it as well), was a challenge, a<br />
goal, a mission. Janet was my model, my mentor, my friend.<br />
After several trips and vacations to Sanibel, Florida to visit<br />
my high school sweetheart, Jack, I told Janet I thought I<br />
wanted to move to Florida yet I would be sad to leave the job<br />
I loved. She was very supportive, and said things like “These<br />
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are the best years of your life”, “You aren’t getting any<br />
younger”, “You deserve to have some fun in your life” and<br />
“Your job is mostly done on the phone and e-mails and you<br />
can do that job from anywhere. Let’s set up a home office for<br />
you in Florida”. We shortened my hours per week and we<br />
pledged to talk to each other on a weekly basis.<br />
When Janet’s health started failing in the summer of 2003, I<br />
wasn’t sure what my role would be. Finally I decided to<br />
spend the summer months in Denver, renting an apartment<br />
from a friend. I feel privileged to have been with her a great<br />
deal during her last months. We reminisced often, I read her<br />
cards and letters out loud to her and we would recall when<br />
we had been with that person. We both loved hearing from<br />
our students all over the country and world. We both loved<br />
the work. So when she made her transition, I wasn’t sure<br />
what my “next mission” was to be. One never can go back.<br />
Cynthia was ready and willing to take up the challenge of<br />
being the Program Director so I offered to be her “assistant”<br />
for awhile. However, the Administration of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
Program felt that this was not an appropriate title and so we<br />
thought about it until we came up with “Director of Program<br />
Integrity”. Basically, will the decisions we make be in integrity<br />
with the Intention of the program? I thought “Wow, can I<br />
do this?” So Cynthia and I plowed ahead, taking on one project<br />
after another until it was time to return to Florida last<br />
Christmas. My future was calling. The time to shift had come.<br />
My resignation was the culmination of 10 years of service to<br />
this program and to Janet. Now it is time for me to enjoy the<br />
rewards of this labor which for me is teaching…it is my greatest<br />
joy. Also, I love to travel and Jack also loves traveling with<br />
me so we look forward to each new invitation and communication<br />
as an opportunity to meet new people, share in the<br />
wisdom of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> and see new places.<br />
Life is an Adventure. E<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Advanced Practice 1 & 2<br />
If you are ready to take your practice to a new level, then an Advance Practice class is for you!<br />
Advance Practice 1 & 2 courses are developed specifically to help you to master your <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> skills and practice.<br />
Who can take an Advance Practice class?<br />
If you have taken <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> <strong>Level</strong> 3 or above you can take an Advance Practice class. These classes are taught<br />
independently of each other and AP 1 is not a prerequisite for AP 2.<br />
Upcoming Advanced Practice 1 classes<br />
Date Location Instructor<br />
2/24/<strong>2007</strong> Richmond, VA Donna Duff<br />
3/3/<strong>2007</strong> Coronado, CA Anne Day<br />
3/3/<strong>2007</strong> Milwaukee, WI Cynthia Hutchison<br />
3/9/<strong>2007</strong> Ft Collins, CO Cynthia Hutchison<br />
3/16/<strong>2007</strong> Munich, Germany Ines Hoster<br />
Upcoming Advanced Practice 2 classes<br />
Date Location Instructor<br />
2/4/<strong>2007</strong> Denville, NJ Judy Turner<br />
2/25/<strong>2007</strong> Richmond, VA Donna Duff<br />
3/4/<strong>2007</strong> Coronado, CA Anne Day<br />
“<br />
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- Room and board not included<br />
Book NOW for a day you will cherish for the rest of your life!<br />
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They [AP techniques] bring other dimensions into the work which enhance balancing and healing capabilities. I use<br />
these techniques all of the time and appreciate the depth with which they allow me to communicate with clients.<br />
- Theresa Foster, CHTP, CIMI<br />
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almost every question that arose; Judy knew almost all of<br />
the instructors personally; Judy has a thousand Janet stories;<br />
and Judy can articulately and comprehensively<br />
assess the big picture of HT questions and issues to<br />
manifest a win:win scenario for all parties involved. Judy<br />
has always been there for me during my recent years as<br />
the assistant program director to Janet and as the program<br />
director since May 2005. And she continues to be<br />
there for me as a friend and colleague, despite her formal<br />
resignation.<br />
With heartfelt thanks<br />
to Judy Turner, Director of Program Integrity<br />
A Note from Cynthia Hutchison, HT Program Director<br />
I knew the day would come when Judy would announce to<br />
me that it was time to have more fun and relaxation in her<br />
life (being the joyful and funloving woman that she is), but<br />
I kept hoping that time would be in the distant future long<br />
after the transition period was over and all the things we<br />
hoped to put into place for our students and instructors<br />
would be there.<br />
I am grateful that she shared with you all, the readers of<br />
<strong>Energy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong>, this informal personal story about her<br />
history with <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>. It is written as if she is sitting<br />
down with you and me over a cup of tea. That’s Judy<br />
style….a hug, a heart of friendship, always kind words,<br />
hope and good will. Thank you Judy! Although I miss our<br />
frequent phone calls, I am so delighted that you are relishing<br />
these fine years of your life with the people and experiences<br />
you love so much! E<br />
Judy’s decision to resign before last Christmas was a<br />
bittersweet moment for me. As her friend, I wanted her<br />
to enjoy her life, her relationship, her friends and her<br />
teaching to the fullest extent possible (Judy lives a very<br />
full physical, emotional, mental and spiritual life!). As her<br />
colleague in administration in the HT Program, it was difficult<br />
to give her my blessing to move on because of the<br />
loving, constant and dedicated support she has shown<br />
to me and to the stabalization and advancement of our<br />
beloved program.<br />
Judy always took on projects enthusiastically and with a<br />
great sense of humor; Judy always knew the history of<br />
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Celebrate<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> International Day<br />
March 6, <strong>2007</strong><br />
HTI Day is a great opportunity to promote <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> in your community.<br />
Join <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> colleagues world-wide in celebrating the<br />
growing awareness and use of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>.<br />
Make a day of it with activities that will promote this wonderful and effective<br />
healing modality.<br />
• Organize free mini HT sessions for the community<br />
• Schedule an Intro to <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> talk<br />
• Gather <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> providers for networking and social time<br />
• Join the world-wide healing meditation (at noon your time).<br />
Promote your event with a downloadable HTI Day flyer and sample press release.<br />
Veiw what others are doing in our HTI Day Calendar. And finally, let us know about<br />
your activities (E-mail us at HTIOutreach.com), and we will list your HTI Day activitiy<br />
on the website.<br />
For more ideas and resources, visit www.<strong>Healing</strong><strong>Touch</strong>International.org.<br />
March 6, <strong>2007</strong> is the 11th anniversary of <strong>Healing</strong><br />
<strong>Touch</strong> International, Inc., the professional non-profi t<br />
organization for <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>. We set the standards<br />
for <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> practice, provide certifi cation<br />
for <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> practitioners and instructors,<br />
and provide opportunities for ongoing professional<br />
growth through our annual conference, publications,<br />
and materials.<br />
for more information visit www.<strong>Healing</strong><strong>Touch</strong>International.org<br />
@ <strong>2007</strong> <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> International, Inc.All rights reserved.
HT Empowering Lives<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Empowering Lives in Peru<br />
by Anne L. Day, RN, MA, HNC, CHTP/I<br />
My travels to Peru December<br />
1–3, 2006 to teach a <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> <strong>Level</strong><br />
4 class was an incredible experience! It<br />
was a time of personal expansion of consciousness,<br />
as I experienced (along with<br />
my husband Larry) how challenging it is to<br />
live in a third world country. The extremes<br />
of poverty were very difficult to witness.<br />
However, amidst the communities of the<br />
poor were very bright lights of the spiritual<br />
strength of many, many people there.<br />
Photo: <strong>Level</strong> 4 students and Instructors in Peru<br />
In Lima I was honored to work with three very dedicated<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Instructors who have taught HT to thousands<br />
of people, and who were ready to be trained to<br />
teach HT <strong>Level</strong> 4 classes. These women, from Catholic<br />
Religious Communities around the world were Carol<br />
Reamer, originally from Ohio, Eileen Kearney, from Ireland<br />
and Emiliana González Sanllorente, from Spain. All have<br />
been in Peru 13 – 20 years, working with the poor and the<br />
disadvantaged. Margaret Kehoe and Nita Alvarado are<br />
also in training to become HT instructors.<br />
Since 2000, when Mary Jo Bulbrook and Sister Barbara<br />
Cavanaugh brought the first <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> class to Peru,<br />
continued on page 16<br />
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there have been 5,000 people from all over South America<br />
who have taken HT classes. Thirty students have completed<br />
<strong>Level</strong> 5. Emiliana is now assigned to an area in northern<br />
Peru, where many of the women who come to HT classes<br />
often have to canoe 6 hours! There is a strong interest in<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> and a willingness to come long distances<br />
for a class. Other instructors who have contributed to<br />
Spreading the Light of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> in Peru are: Carol<br />
Kinney, Donna Duff, Judy Turner and Cynthia Hutchison.<br />
On a tour of one of the poor communities there, we were<br />
privileged to see a new children’s center that was just getting<br />
ready to open. Amidst the shanties that shared walls<br />
with this center, the beauty and energy that radiated from<br />
this place was remarkable. Instead of the usual bars on the<br />
windows, they had beautiful wrought iron angels, obviously<br />
shifting the energy of the light from the challenging poor<br />
environment outside…to a place of healing within.<br />
Just before I arrived in Lima, a big article had been published<br />
in a prominent Lima paper featuring the HT work<br />
that Eileen and Margaret are doing in this poor community.<br />
It was written by a journalist who is a friend of a man<br />
with AIDS who had wonderful healing through the regular<br />
HT treatments he is receiving at their therapy center. Their<br />
phones were ringing off the hooks with interest in HT treatments<br />
and classes! They just wrote to tell me that they are<br />
now being featured in a TV report on Tele Mundi, a division<br />
of NBC. So the HT publicity is really expanding in Peru!<br />
At the <strong>Level</strong> 4 class, six students who had completed <strong>Level</strong><br />
5 came to share with the <strong>Level</strong> 4 class the last day. Their profile<br />
books and homework were of very high quality. Again, the<br />
stories of how HT has changed their lives brought me to<br />
tears. As I watched the healing work of the students in the<br />
class, I was assured that they are being taught well with very<br />
high standards for learning pure <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>.<br />
We met beautiful women, who had either completed <strong>Level</strong><br />
5 or were in the process of taking classes, who gave HT<br />
treatments to many people in their community. The stories<br />
of how HT was changing their lives were amazing! For the<br />
first time, many of them were becoming aware of a whole<br />
new world as they read the books on the recommended<br />
reading list. They were gaining new respect from their husbands<br />
and children on how they were helping themselves,<br />
their families and their community with HT.<br />
I am totally committed to support these people and the great<br />
work they are doing. I realize now in a way that I had not<br />
comprehended before going to Peru, the importance of all of<br />
us supporting their HT path all the way through certification.<br />
The Sisters who have devoted their lives to helping the<br />
Peruvians will not be there forever. We need the native peo-<br />
Below: iron angels looking out at poverty.<br />
As one of the women who had completed <strong>Level</strong> 5 this year<br />
told us the story of her case study, I was very impressed by<br />
the fine healing work that she was doing. Her case study<br />
was a man dying of AIDS, who couldn’t walk and had sores<br />
all over his face when he first started coming to her a year<br />
ago. Within 3 months, he began to change dramatically. By<br />
the end of one year, he was walking, had no sores on his<br />
face and felt like he had a new life! The pride of this woman<br />
and her instructors brought tears to my eyes! I believe that<br />
the purity of spirit of these people brings the healing work to<br />
a very profound level very quickly.<br />
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ple to become certified so that some of them can become<br />
instructors and continue to “Spread the Light of <strong>Healing</strong><br />
<strong>Touch</strong>”.<br />
We need the help of any CHTPs who can speak Spanish to<br />
be mentors for the people who want to become certified in<br />
Peru. It would involve monthly contacts by e-mail with the<br />
instructors who are mentoring students there, and who will<br />
give summary reports and pursue questions that need assistance<br />
to answer.<br />
I have volunteered to be the supervising nurse mentor to all<br />
those who completed the <strong>Level</strong> 4 class with me in Lima.<br />
They will work with their local mentors, who will then give me<br />
regular reports through e-mail communication. I feel confident<br />
that this will be a joyful and satisfying service. I ask all<br />
of you to consider how you can serve to support our international<br />
development. It truly is a gift that will have worldwide<br />
effects as more hearts are opened to the energy of unconditional<br />
love and the oneness of our core star light. E<br />
Above: <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> in action during the <strong>Level</strong> 4 class in Peru.<br />
continued on page 18<br />
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• 74 Illustrations for easy and quick reference<br />
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The new <strong>Level</strong> 1 Notebook, 5th Edition<br />
Above: Instrucors from the level 4 class with Selma.<br />
Anne’s Bio:<br />
Anne has over 35 years experience as a holistically oriented<br />
nurse and health educator. She has a Master of Arts in<br />
Health and Wellness and has been an member of the<br />
American Holistic Nurses Association since 1988. Anne is<br />
a nationally certified <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Practitioner and<br />
Instructor, certified Holistic Nurse and certified in massage<br />
therapy. She is also a certified journal instructor and a recognized<br />
speaker and leader in the areas of healing, holism,<br />
journaling and presence.<br />
Anne has been a visionary in helping to build two holistic<br />
health centers in Lakewood, Colorado. She is Past<br />
President of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> International, and was a charter<br />
member of the HTI Board of Directors for over 8 years.<br />
Anne is also Founder and Director of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
Hawaii. Anne is dedicated to bringing <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> and<br />
other integrative therapies into mainstream health care.<br />
She is passionate about teaching others to connect with<br />
their own inner healing potential. Her private practice<br />
includes <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>, therapeutic massage, wellness<br />
counseling and guided imagery for healing.<br />
Features:<br />
• expanded and updated information,<br />
• new session documentation forms<br />
• anatomy charts<br />
• over 200 pages<br />
• 8.5 X 11 format<br />
• “wiro” bound so it opens flat<br />
• specific space to take notes for future reference<br />
To enable you to have the latest materials at<br />
your fingertips, <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Program is offering<br />
Existing Students and Practitioners the ability to<br />
purchase the <strong>Level</strong> 1 Notebook 5th Edition at<br />
wholesale pricing ($22.50 plus shipping) until<br />
March 1st. There is a limit of one copy per person.<br />
This offer applies to students who have completed a<br />
<strong>Level</strong> 1 class or above.<br />
How to get your copy:<br />
There are two easy ways to order the <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Program<br />
<strong>Level</strong> 1 Notebook 5th edition:<br />
1. Go to<br />
www.healingtouchprogram.com/studentnotebookorder.pdf,<br />
print order form and fax to (303) 985-9702 or mail to<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Program, P.O. Box 16189, Golden, CO 80402.<br />
For foreign shipping and delivery please contact our office.<br />
2. Call us at 1-303-989-0581 to order by phone<br />
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HT Tidbits<br />
The Certified <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Pin<br />
The meaning of the CHTP Pin that is given as a gift to those<br />
that become Certified <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Practitioners is symbolic<br />
for its shape and color.<br />
The round shape represents Unity and Community.<br />
The color white represents Purity of Purpose, the<br />
Blue represents Clear Communication from the<br />
Higher Realms and the Gold works to Stimulate<br />
Balance and <strong>Healing</strong>. It was developed by Janet<br />
Mentgen and staff to recognize the work the Practitioner<br />
had done and to symbolize to the world<br />
that this person is a competent practitioner.<br />
It was established that the pin ONLY be given in<br />
ceremony and therefore it is not mailed to the individual but<br />
available only through the Certified Instructors. The recognition<br />
given by the Peers is as important as the pin itself.<br />
by Judy Turner, RN, BS, HNC, CHTP/I<br />
Live Internet Talk Radio on the 7th Wave Network<br />
Exploring <strong>Energy</strong> Therapies and the Mind-Body-Spirit Connection<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>: Hands-On <strong>Energy</strong> Balancing for Wholeness<br />
Do you want to heal faster, reduce pain, anxiety or depression, and leave the hospital sooner? Discover<br />
the healing potential of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>, a holistic energy therapy which uses light or near-body touch to<br />
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in Tampa, Florida and the significant findings of current research on the use of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> in<br />
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the healing process by learning one of these simple and effective hands-on healing techniques!<br />
Thursday, <strong>February</strong> 22, <strong>2007</strong><br />
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HT Tidbits<br />
An Update on the new<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Program DVD<br />
The final edit of the DVD is<br />
completed and copies will be<br />
available around March 1st, <strong>2007</strong>.<br />
Watch for the announcement in the<br />
March 07 issue of <strong>Energy</strong> <strong>Magazine</strong><br />
for more information.<br />
The DVD is a visual portrayal covering:<br />
• What is <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>?<br />
• Scientific Support for <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
• The Effects of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
• <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Changes Peoples Lives<br />
• Hospital Integration of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
• <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Beginnings<br />
• <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Impacting the World<br />
• The Vision of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
The DVD is perfect for Introduction to <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> classes and is<br />
excellent for explaining <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> to family, friends, colleagues and in<br />
classroom settings.<br />
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A Rocket Scientist?<br />
A Rocket Scientist<br />
in <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>?<br />
By David Barnett<br />
During introductions in each of my<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> classes, that is the standard<br />
rhetorical question and it is usually<br />
followed by laughter and raised eyebrows!<br />
Combine that with being one of<br />
the few guys in the class and it takes on<br />
an even stranger quality. This always<br />
leads into good-natured kidding from the<br />
instructor about “not having to be a rocket<br />
scientist to do <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>.” There<br />
actually are a number of advantages<br />
coming from the physical science side<br />
and doing this work. We’ll talk about<br />
those further on.<br />
My background includes bachelor’s degrees in electrical<br />
engineering and psychology and master’s degrees in bioelectrical<br />
sciences and computer science. Toss in a pilot’s<br />
license, being a scuba divemaster, working in aerospace<br />
for 27 years and seven patents in microspacecraft and you<br />
start to get the feeling that I’ve touched a few areas. The<br />
best part about this (besides obviously helping many universities’<br />
budgets) is that somebody who tries to say<br />
there’s nothing to energy medicine cannot easily dismiss<br />
me because I can cite many theoretical and physical models<br />
for how it may work.<br />
I seriously started pursuing <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> following a very<br />
interesting chance meeting at my tenth high school<br />
reunion. An old friend, whom I hadn’t seen for awhile,<br />
approached me and talked about what he had been doing<br />
since graduation. He asked if I had followed my plans to<br />
become an engineer and I replied that I had. He started<br />
talking around a subject including the possibility of changing<br />
things remotely.<br />
When I finally pinned him down, he said that he could<br />
affect electronic devices at a distance. What a match for<br />
me! We went to his house and he started demonstrating<br />
what he could do: stalling another car in traffic, changing<br />
traffic lights and hotel marquis signs, permanently lowering<br />
the electric meter rate on a house, and changing the output<br />
of the radio station where he worked. If we could think<br />
of it, he could affect it. To put it lightly…I was stunned.<br />
When I returned home to Denver, I became seriously<br />
involved in reading, attending lectures and classes, going<br />
to meditation sessions, and generally exploring metaphysical<br />
concepts and phenomena. Along the way, I took the<br />
sequence of Therapeutic <strong>Touch</strong> classes (early 1980s) and<br />
started working with clients in a limited fashion.<br />
This was fascinating work for me because I could perceive<br />
the energy fields physically and the experiences were validated<br />
with blind testing/evaluation on clients brought in by<br />
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A Rocket Scientist?<br />
the instructor. In one class, I “knew” as soon as I saw the<br />
client that she had abdominal problems and during scanning,<br />
it came to me that her colon was diseased. She was<br />
suffering from diverticulitis. Wow! This stuff really works. I<br />
couldn’t wait to try it on more people.<br />
Now, think about this…a card-carrying<br />
aerospace engineer in the 1980’s<br />
was not a great candidate to hang<br />
out an energy medicine shingle. So,<br />
I kept it to family and friends. But the<br />
story doesn’t end there.<br />
In 2005, a lot of big spiritual things started firing up my life<br />
(again, no such thing as a coincidence). I attended a Sonia<br />
Choquette conference and was called on twice! I took the<br />
training to be a Psych-K practitioner (a fast and effective<br />
method for changing core beliefs in the subconscious).<br />
My refresher also included taking <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> <strong>Level</strong> 1 in<br />
a holistic health program at a local college and then taking<br />
<strong>Level</strong>s 2 - 4 in 2006. It was like getting to know an old<br />
friend again and catching up on what had changed in the<br />
intervening years.<br />
Those intervening years were also filled with much more<br />
reading and studying in the exotic world of quantum<br />
mechanics and its implications in the metaphysical realm.<br />
This provided the opportunity for much thoughtful exploration<br />
into energy work.<br />
What could comprise a “field” around a person? What<br />
mechanisms exist for distance healing? What are my<br />
views on what energy levels and vibrational frequencies<br />
really imply?<br />
Based on recommendations from the <strong>Level</strong> I class, I<br />
read Hands of Light by Barbara Brennan and The Field<br />
by Lynn McTaggart. These books, combined with my<br />
previous reading, provided a great foundation for<br />
speaking with those in the energy healing area and also<br />
with those who were new to the concepts. (When talking<br />
to hardcore engineers, I follow a different tack.)<br />
For example, electrical engineers years ago began using<br />
some very high-speed semiconductor devices that rely on<br />
the “tunneling” effect. Tunneling comes from quantum<br />
mechanics and is based on the concept that an object (in<br />
this case, an electron) has a finite probability of suddenly<br />
showing up in a different place.<br />
In the electronics device, this effect is enhanced.<br />
However, this also applies to an object of any mass. There<br />
is actually a small probability that you, the reader, will suddenly<br />
pop into my living room. Nothing prohibits this theoretically.<br />
With this knowledge, it gets a little harder to categorically<br />
deny energy medicine on the basis of not making<br />
sense.<br />
Going further, when physicists follow the particle hierarchy<br />
downwards from molecules to atoms to protons and electrons,<br />
things get very strange around electrons and then<br />
especially the subatomic particles. You can’t “see” electrons<br />
and smaller particles because a light wave hits them<br />
like a Mac truck. Therefore, other experiments are created<br />
to locate them and observe their interactions.<br />
This behavior becomes very strange where particles blink<br />
out and look like waves of energy and particles come and<br />
go like fish leaping out of the sea. This really starts to get<br />
at the heart of what we’re doing in <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> when<br />
working with energies that are very hard for us to define<br />
and to see that these “waves” of energy extend without<br />
limit in what we think of as a physical universe.<br />
Regardless of how it works, I see a tremendous future for<br />
alternative medicine and <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> as the population<br />
continues to get older, drug prices and drug interaction<br />
problems continue to rise, and people become more<br />
drawn to a very personal approach to healing.<br />
I find <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> a great way to support others and help<br />
them progress through their health challenges. Is it a<br />
placebo effect? I don’t care – the field of psychoneuroimcontinued<br />
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A Rocket Scientist?<br />
munology has provided clear indications of the stretch of<br />
the human brain in tying into chemical and nervous reactions<br />
throughout the body. Thinking does affect health.<br />
People can choose the model that works in their belief<br />
structure and we’ll continue helping clients when they<br />
show up. As I write this, I have completed arrangements to<br />
volunteer at a Denver psychiatric nursing home. I doubt if<br />
the residents who receive <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> will care about<br />
the theory versus just having someone who is interested in<br />
them. I will keep you updated on how a new volunteer project<br />
progresses and the lessons learned. E<br />
David’s Bio:<br />
Dave is an honest-to-goodness rocket scientist and still<br />
enjoys the surprise on people’s faces in <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
classes. He lives with his wife, Cindy, in Littleton, CO<br />
where they enjoy being first-time grandparents. Dave has<br />
been involved with alternative healing since the early<br />
1980’s (Therapeutic <strong>Touch</strong>) and has worked in many<br />
modalities. Most recently, Dave has become a Psych-K<br />
practitioner and finds that this is very complementary to<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>. Dave recently completed <strong>Level</strong> 4 and is<br />
working towards <strong>Level</strong> 5 and certification.<br />
Dave works with clients in both the Denver and Ft. Collins<br />
areas. He networks with several groups and is working on<br />
developing a free clinic within a local psychiatric nursing<br />
home. His expertise includes ongoing work in being a<br />
medical intuitive and extensive experience in distance<br />
healing using all modalities.<br />
Dave continues with his work in aerospace consulting for<br />
the US Air Force and his previous employer, Lockheed<br />
Martin and he is also an adjunct professor in engineering<br />
and computer science at a local university. His other interests<br />
include creating bronze sculptures, wood turning and<br />
woodwork, and scuba diving. www.holisticbeliefs.com<br />
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Featured HT Instructor<br />
Featured <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Instructor:<br />
Jackie Mielke BS, CHTP/I, CAHI<br />
This article is taken from Jackie’s responses to an<br />
interview by the editor.<br />
M y journey to <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> began in<br />
1984 when I became acquainted with a<br />
charter member of AHNA during a hospice<br />
volunteer training class. In 1987 she<br />
invited me to be on a planning committee<br />
to form a Minnesota chapter of AHNA. It<br />
was to that group that the first instructors,<br />
Ann Day and Judy Turner, came to teach<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> <strong>Level</strong> 1 in October, 1992.<br />
Above: Jackie Mielke, BS, CHTP/I, CAHI<br />
In addition, my HT journey has taken me to conferences in<br />
Colorado and California; and to Las Vegas and North<br />
Carolina for <strong>Level</strong> 2 and <strong>Level</strong> 3 instructor training.<br />
As a student in that <strong>Level</strong> 1 workshop, I instantly knew that<br />
I wanted to become certified in <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>, both as a<br />
practitioner and as an instructor.<br />
I now teach <strong>Level</strong>s 1, 2, and 3 in a variety of settings - colleges,<br />
medical centers, clinics, monasteries, hospitals -<br />
predominantly in Minnesota. I have also taught in North<br />
Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska, and have committed to teaching<br />
in northern Wisconsin and northern Michigan.<br />
My philosophy on healing is the hospice philosophy in that<br />
healing relates to becoming whole and one may attain that<br />
wholeness without being physically cured. Conversely, one<br />
can be medically cured and still not be healed.<br />
For me personally, healing is tackling the issues represented<br />
in the spiritual, mental, emotional and vital/etheric layers<br />
of the energy field. <strong>Healing</strong> is attitudinal, fearless, a<br />
recognition of the spiritual essence of self as the core self.<br />
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<strong>Healing</strong> is also letting go of the old, the useless, the no<br />
longer necessary and training ourselves to call our Spirit<br />
back (Myss).<br />
Finally, healing is Trusting the Universe and simultaneously<br />
becoming a full partner in the healing process.<br />
One of my most unique teaching experiences occurred in<br />
1998, a year after becoming a Certified <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong><br />
Instructor. I was teaching <strong>Level</strong> 1 at a community college<br />
in a rural area. The continuing education director had<br />
gained special permission from HT for some of the students<br />
to take the workshop for credit and some for CE<br />
contact hours. Law Enforcement was the class taught during<br />
the week in our workshop space. The walls were covered<br />
with pictures of weapons and wanted criminals.<br />
There were 5 helpers and every one of them was necessary<br />
to help me hold the energy.<br />
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The class was evenly divided between college students<br />
taking HT for credit and nurses attending for continuing<br />
education. The class began on Friday evening and from<br />
the beginning the two groups were at loggerheads--the<br />
nurses would contribute something and the students<br />
would roll their eyes; the kids would offer their view and the<br />
nurses sighed and gave each other meaningful looks.<br />
The helpers and I came early both Saturday and<br />
Sunday mornings to clear and consecrate the space<br />
again and remained vigilant throughout the day to keep<br />
the energy grounded. By Sunday afternoon, I was looking<br />
forward to 5pm and the end of this <strong>Level</strong> 1. That is<br />
when a shift occurred.<br />
The class was experiencing the Heart to Heart<br />
Meditation--I was holding the energy, timing the exercise,<br />
and wondering what I could have done differently to help<br />
this class bond energetically. I glanced around the room<br />
and discovered a miracle had happened! Every college<br />
student was paired with a nurse! I had watched as they<br />
chose their partners, but it didn't dawn on me, until this<br />
moment…that this segmented class had finally merged<br />
and the helpers and I had nothing to do with it. My "aha"<br />
moment was realizing, with wonder and gratitude, that<br />
Spirit/Guidance is as much involved in the teaching of<br />
HT as in the practice of HT!<br />
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With regard to my own unique contributions…three come<br />
to mind. I have been teaching adult education since<br />
1979, I have worked in hospice since 1984, and, I am not<br />
a nurse. I haven't always viewed the latter as an advantage!<br />
A growing awareness that some students were<br />
drawn to workshops BECAUSE of my background taught<br />
me that I have unique contributions to offer the <strong>Healing</strong><br />
<strong>Touch</strong> Program as instructor and mentor.<br />
My advice to a new instructor is to maintain a thriving practice<br />
with as many different patient populations as possible!<br />
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These rich experiences produce valuable teaching examples<br />
for each of the techniques.<br />
When someone is thinking of taking a HT class I key in to<br />
their reason for considering <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> and speak specifically<br />
to that. Is it for self care? Are they caring for a friend or<br />
relative? Are they considering a job change? Do they want to<br />
augment their value to their present employer? What is their<br />
interest in complementary therapies? Is it to restore or implement<br />
a healing ministry in a church setting? Are they searching<br />
for a different career?<br />
In my experience, prospective students usually have specific<br />
questions about whether HT will fill their particular needs.<br />
My vision with regard to the future of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> is the<br />
same as I tell practitioners when they ask what I think about<br />
them becoming instructors. (They express concern that the<br />
field will be too crowded or that they could not support themselves.)<br />
Until we are teaching regular classes in every hospital,<br />
clinic, medical center, college, university, long term care<br />
facility and church in the state, (nation/world) the instructor<br />
field is not saturated. Also, until we are providing <strong>Healing</strong><br />
<strong>Touch</strong> in every medical facility, we need to hold that vision. E<br />
Jackie’s Bio:<br />
Jackie Mielke, BS, CHTP/I, CAHI has been a Certified<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Practitioner since 1995, a Certified <strong>Healing</strong><br />
<strong>Touch</strong> Instructor since 1997, and a certified Allied Health<br />
Instructor since 2001. She teaches continuing education for<br />
nurses and allied health professionals in the Minnesota<br />
Community and Technical College System and is a conference<br />
and seminar presenter since 1987 through her business,<br />
Options for Human Involvement. Her background is in<br />
education, business and human services. In addition, Jackie<br />
has served as advisory board member for Methodist<br />
Hospital Hospice, in Minneapolis, MN and Normandale<br />
Community College Integrative Health and Wellness<br />
Education in Bloomington, MN.<br />
HEALING TOUCH CALIFORNIA<br />
(A network for <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Practitioners)<br />
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When: Sun. April 29, <strong>2007</strong> 9am – 4pm<br />
(Saturday 4/28 Networking Activities)<br />
Where: Paradise Point, San Diego, CA<br />
Purpose: Unite & Connect HT Practitioners;<br />
Network; Expand and Energize Our “Work”;<br />
Offer New <strong>Energy</strong> Medicine Information<br />
Keynote Speakers:<br />
Valerie Hunt, PHD & Mimi Guarneri, MD, FACC<br />
For more details and registration go to:<br />
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Money As <strong>Energy</strong><br />
AS<br />
by Marilee Tolen, RN, HNC, CHTP/I<br />
Vibrate What You Want<br />
We can vibrate anything we want<br />
into our lives, including money.<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> practitioners should be<br />
able to grasp this concept more than<br />
most people. All energetic principles are<br />
the same no matter what the intention. In<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>, since we are nursing<br />
based, we are accustomed to working<br />
with the intention of balancing the energy<br />
field for good health on all levels – body,<br />
mind, and spirit. But we can use our<br />
knowledge, skills, and the energetic principles<br />
we work with, and apply it to anything,<br />
including money.<br />
The Trick to Money is Having Some<br />
When I was writing my thesis on the energy of money in<br />
1995-96, I referenced a book by Stuart Wilde that was<br />
entitled “The Trick to Money is Having Some”. At first this<br />
made no sense to me. It wasn’t until I applied energetic<br />
principles and Universal Laws to this concept that I was<br />
able to understand and apply how this works.<br />
Like Attracts Like<br />
The Law of Attraction tells us that “like attracts like”. So,<br />
as it applies to money, the more money we have – the<br />
more we get. Haven’t you heard the saying “the rich get<br />
richer and the poor get poorer”? This speaks to the Law of<br />
Attraction.<br />
What if we don’t have much money to begin with? – then<br />
based on this principle - how can we create money? We<br />
can create money with the decision to hold in our mind<br />
good positive abundant thoughts that say we are grateful<br />
for the money we have. Bring in the emotional body here<br />
to ‘feel good’ about what we do have. The ‘feel good’ will<br />
vibrate in more of the same.<br />
Our thoughts are what magnetize our energy field. We can<br />
decide to either think positive or negative thoughts. The<br />
easy way to do this is to first begin to witness what the<br />
thoughts are and if they are negative, then make a conscious<br />
effort to change them to positive.<br />
Affirmations are powerful. Many times people complain<br />
that they can’t affirm for something that they feel is impossible<br />
for them to have. It’s important to remember that the<br />
subconscious mind doesn’t know the difference between<br />
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Money As <strong>Energy</strong><br />
real or imagined circumstances – so we can take advantage<br />
of that and use our imaginations to trick our subconscious.<br />
This is something you can have fun with!<br />
Charge Your <strong>Energy</strong> Field with Your Dreams<br />
Dream all the dreams you want! Dreaming and letting your<br />
imagination soar can charge your field with the vibration of<br />
things that you want to attract. And more of that begets<br />
more.<br />
Share This Concept with Others<br />
Thanks to the popularity of the recent movie “The Secret”,<br />
which is based on the Law of Attraction, many minds are<br />
shifting to the awareness of the possibility that we can create<br />
what we want in our lives. The more people who know<br />
about this and share it with others the better because this<br />
will help create a critical mass that can elevate all of our<br />
consciousnesses and help us all become closer to our cocreative<br />
selves. E<br />
Marilee’s Bio:<br />
Marilee Tolen is board certified in Holistic Nursing, a Certified<br />
<strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> Practitioner and Instructor (10 years), and a<br />
former board member of <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong> International. She is<br />
a graduate of the Barbara Brennan School of <strong>Healing</strong><br />
Science and completed Intuition Training with Caroline Myss.<br />
Marilee has integrated abundance and prosperity principles<br />
into her professional life for over twenty years. Her studies of<br />
the energy of money became her specialty at the Brennan<br />
School in 1996 as demonstrated in her thesis “Currency As<br />
Consciousness” ©. She is a contributing author to the<br />
recently acclaimed award winning book Invitation to Holistic<br />
Health: A Guide to Living a Balanced Life (Bartlett and Jones)<br />
writing the chapter on “Financial Health”. Marilee is currently<br />
packaging her years of experience and knowledge as a<br />
Nurse Healer to teach the people about self care and natural<br />
ways to heal which includes <strong>Healing</strong> <strong>Touch</strong>. She is marketing<br />
this information through the internet as “Home Spa Lady”<br />
and is having a “prosperous blast”. She loves to teach people<br />
how to do this and much more. To learn about what she<br />
offers sign up for her Free Tips of the Week at<br />
www.HomeSpaLady.com.<br />
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