Everything you wanted to know about Healing Touch, but were afraid to ask.
Daphne's article on Mirror Neurons and Intention: New Research Shakes Scientific World in HTI's Perspectives in Healing, Summer, 2008 (scroll down to pages 12 - 13).
Healing Touch and Somatic Experiencing:
Robert Scaer, MD, a neurologist who specializes in the effects of trauma on the brain, has found that Healing Touch has a "profound and effective technique for healing trauma." The Role of Energy in Healing Trauma in Energy Magazine, November, 2007 (pages 15 - 21).
USA Today
Reuters
San Francisco Chronicle
Healing Touch in University Research Hospitals:
University of Cincinnati: Can Healing Touch reduce the need for anesthesia?
Wake Forest University: Healing Touch reduces pain; diminishes nausea; and decreases anxiety, apprehension and restlessness in adults and children.
NYU Medical Center: Healing Touch is a complementary (or integrative) energy-based therapy that can be used in conjunction with traditional therapies or as a stand-alone treatment.
SomaticExpeciencing.com: Trauma is a fact of life, but doesn't have to be a life sentence.
Interview with Peter Levine, founder of Somatic Experiencing.
First chapter of Peter Levine's book Waking the Tiger.
Trauma is Physiological, not Psychological (or trauma is in the nervous system, not in the event.)
Somatic Experiencing and Children:
It Won't Hurt Forever: Guiding Your Child Through Trauma, from Mothering Magazine, January-February 2002.
Meditations to Enhance Calming and Centering
Nancy Napier has some wonderful meditations here. Daphne uses these and other meditations in her sessions, often tailoring the meditation to the specific needs of her client.
Daphne wrote a number of articles for The Integrator Blog, with observations and commentary on the health care debate.