Listed below are books from the Healing Touch recommended list. These books can be purchased through Amazon.com, or Sounds True by following the link or clicking the "buy now" button. By purchasing your books in this manner you are supporting Healing Touch Program with your purchase.
Purpose: The Healing Touch recommended booklist was compiled to support Healing Touch students, apprentice, and practitioners, as well as to provide information helpful in understanding the theories and principles behind the work of Healing Touch. List is in alphabetical order. The books on this site are those from the recommended list that are available through Amazon.com. Click here for the complete book list.
*Janet Mentgen’s Recommended Books
The books are grouped into the following categories:
- Healing Touch Course Work
- Energy Medicine/Holism
- Quantum Physics
- Spiritual Development
- Professional Development
- Journaling
- Ethics
Becoming the Healer: The Miracle of Brain Injury is a book to be read by more than just those trying to understand the brain-injured person. It can renew in you hope, faith, and the belief that miracles still happen today and can happen for you too. You will be inspired with great ideas, encouraging you to step out in faith, to let go of your fears, and to make the necessary changes to step into your own miracles. By opening your eyes and your heart, looking at things in a different perspective, asking, then really listening, the answers will come. Sometimes when the answers come, they don't show up the way we expected them to. This was the case with Deborah, who never imagined herself to be given the gift of healing. Now, having experienced a brain injury and the miracles of healing that have brought her full circle in that process, she shares to help you do the same.
Guided Practices to Awaken Healing Energy For Yourself and Others
By Cynthia Hutchison, DNSc, RN, MSN, HTCP/I
2 CDs (2 hours, 21 minutes)
Sounds True (November 2011)
Guided Training in the Three Foundational Practices of Healing Touch
Why has Healing Touch been embraced by both the mainstream medical community and holistic health practitioners? Not only has it been clinically demonstrated to be an effective way to support physical, mental, and emotional wellness—Healing Touch empowers people to take an active role in caring for their own health. With Healing Touch Meditations, Cynthia Hutchison brings you three foundational practices for using Healing Touch to cleanse, balance, and energize your body’s subtle energy system.
“The great thing about Healing Touch is that it is universal and non-dogmatic,” teaches Cynthia Hutchison. “All that you need is a compassionate heart, willing hands, and some basic knowledge.” Whether you are a healing professional who wants to complement your practice, or you are looking for a proven energy medicine method to enhance your own health, Healing Touch Meditations brings you guided practices to activate your own capacity to transmit healing energy for yourself and others.
By Rev. Rudy Noël
Paperback: 60 pages
PublishAmerica (May 16, 2011)
There are times in our lives when we are invited to circumnavigate the rules; times when we must allow ourselves to search for the deeper meaning of something in order to gain a richer experience. Rev. Rudy Noël’s The Huggin’ Healer is an open invitation to do just that. If you are willing to dive beneath the surface you may be very pleased with the pearls you find below. Rev. Rudy Noël offers a simple, no-holds barred, plain English perspective with regards to healing ourselves as well as others. In addition, you receive handy, easy-to-follow directions for his world renowned “Mind Clearance” and “HOPI” techniques, both of which are utilized in the Healing Touch Program.
Rudy Noël is an adept who was rigorously trained in the healing arts by Master Healer, Reverend Rosalyn Bruyere. He draws us in and regales us with his stories, experiences and insights; then tosses out morsels of advice, self-awareness and keen observation. Sometimes, he even surprises us by answering questions that we haven’t even thought to ask yet. These pearls of wisdom may appear to be bite-sized, but they are well worth their weight in gold. Healers of every degree will appreciate and benefit from having The Huggin’ Healer in their “toolbox”.
Essential Energy Medicine for Yourself and Others
By Dorothea Hover-Kramer, Ed.D., RN, CNS, D.CEP
Paperback: 384 pages
Sounds True (October 2011)
More than a hundred hospitals in Canada and the United States now use energy medicine as part of their regular care, thanks to a practice called Healing Touch. Mainstream medicine has embraced this accessible form of energy therapy—and with Healing Touch, there is now a resource for beginners seeking to explore this popular energy medicine modality. Presented by Dorothea Hover-Kramer, one of the most highly regarded authorities on Healing Touch, here is a practical guide on the art of transmitting healing energy to ourselves and others.
The modality of Healing Touch is bringing energy medicine into modern health care as an established, accepted addition to conventional treatment practices. Healing Touch gives readers an illustrated introductory guide to this medically validated method to enhance our health and well-being—and tapping the healing potential that we all possess.
How to Stay Protected and Connected in Work, Love, and Life
By Cyndi Dale
Paperback: 328 pages
Sounds True (October 2011)
Just as our physical body is protected by our skin, our psyche and spirit have "energetic boundaries" that keep out harmful influences. These boundaries, invisible to the naked eye, are more than just defenses-according to Cyndi Dale, these "spiritual borders" are our soul's way of communicating to the universe what we do and don't want to experience in life. With Energetic Boundaries, this renowned intuitive and energy-medicine expert presents a definitive guide for maintaining this essential aspect of our health and personal integrity.
"Strong and flexible energetic boundaries allow us to share who we truly are with the world," teaches Cyndi Dale. Filled with insights, practical guidance, and easy-to-learn techniques, Energetic Boundaries is an indispensible tool for staying protected and connected in every aspect of life-in our relationships, career, and on our spiritual journey.
By Linnie Thomas, HTCP/I
Paperback: 568 pages
Fairview Press (April 15, 2010)
This is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the history and modern use of energy related complementary medicines. This authoritative encyclopedia presents readers with an entire overview of the increasingly popular fields of energy medicine and related bio-field therapies. Filled with insightful, practical, and easy-to-understand information, "The Encyclopedia of Energy Medicine" examines the history and modern uses of such alternative therapies as Acupressure, Healing Touch, Reiki, Reflexology, the Tellington Method, Therapeutic Touch, and more than 50 others. The Encyclopedia also includes expert advice on how to start training in any of these disciplines, giving readers the opportunity to forge a new career in the exciting field of complementary and alternative medicine.
By Joy Heartsong MS HTCP
Paperback: 204 pages
Inner Vision Press (September 21, 2007)
You've built a life filled with family and friends, activities, a home and career. Still...there are times you feel unfulfilled and unhappy. You wonder if there isn't something else, something more. Happily, there is. Through the pages of Awakening The Tiger Within, Joy Heartsong shows you the 9 Paths to awakening the TIGER that lies within you: your inner power and guidance. The TIGER is your access to the joy, fulfillment, healing.the something more you've been missing in life. Whether you're refining or rebuilding, the path to the life you seek begins with an inner journey. Your TIGER will guide you as you fill in the blanks to create the life you've been missing. Let the journey begin.
By Cyndi Dale
Paperback: 500 pages
Sounds True, Incorporated (February 1, 2009)All healers are "energetic" healers, whether they know it or not. Because every health issue has a physical and an energetic component, even a simple physical treatment like bandaging a cut also impacts the body's spiritual, mental, and emotional welfare. The Subtle Body is a comprehensive encyclopedia devoted to the critical world of our invisible anatomy, where so much of healing actually occurs. Compiled by intuitive healer and scholar Cyndi Dale, this 500-page full color illustrated reference book covers: * What is the "subtle body"? New scientific understanding of our quantum-state existence and the unseen fields that determine our physical condition * True integrative care: how combining Eastern energetic modalities with Western scientific rigor yields optimum results * The meridians, fields, and chakras: detailed information and diagrams about the role of these energetic structures in our overall health * Energy-based therapy principles from the world's healing traditions-- including Ayurveda, Qigong, Reiki, Quabalah, and many more. For professionals who want to make the leap from being good healers to great ones, one thing is clear: we need to care for every facet of our well-being. With The Subtle Body, practitioners and patients alike now have an unprecedented resource for understanding the physical, energetic, and spiritual elements of human health--for an informed, complete approach to healing
By Mackie D’Arge
Hardcover: 320 pages
Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Children's Books (March 3, 2009)
Lifting the Sky, by Mackie D'arge, is a young adult novel that’s time has come. It is a book about using intention, seeing “living lights” both around people and on the earth, and following one’s dream. Mackie D’arge has skillfully woven a story about finding one’s home with well drawn characters, vivid environmental scenes, and a fast moving tale.
Children have already been touched by Mackie’s text; a young girl wrote to the author asking if anyone could heal animals with their hands because her dog was sick. She and her sister have read the novel many times and asked Mackie when the next story would be written.
Mackie D’arge, an artist with the gift of higher sense perception, has created a tale set in the land she loves. The book has already won the Wyoming State Historical Fiction Award and is a listed children’s selection in December’s Science of the Mind magazine.
By Dorothea Hover-Kramer
Paperback: 248 pages
Publisher: Energy Psychology Press (November 15, 2008)
This book provides a new template for the second half of life, one that it is bursting with energy, health, power, creativity and new beginnings. Rather than settling for less than our dreams, it fills us with the expectation that this period is our second chance to do, and to be, all the things we've ever dreamed of-and more!This is the first book to apply the breakthrough insights of Energy Psychology to aging. Energy Psychology is an exciting new healing method that changes the body's electromagnetic energy fields to produce immediate psychological shifts and physical well-being. It involves a simple set of breathing and touching exercises, and can be learned quickly by anyone. After just a few minutes of applying these methods, you can amaze yourself with how much better you feel!Energy Psychology pioneer Dorothea Hover-Kramer explains its basic principles in ways that are easy to understand. She shows how energy methods can liberate us from many of the typical problems of aging, such as low energy and reduced motivation.
Author: Nancy Ann Battilega, HTCP
Paperback: 192 pages
Publisher: CreateSpace (May 13, 2008)
Nancy Ann Battilega, Healing Touch Certified Practitioner (HTCP):This is the story of my journey to health and wholeness after a dianosis of breast cancer, and the events in my life that prepared me to choose this particular path of healing. I know that each individual is unique and each illness is unique to that individual. There is no one size fits all when it comes to cancer or any other illness. Nevertheless, I write in the hope that others, who find themselves in circumstances similar to mine, will be inspired to move through their journeys free from fear, taking all the time necessary to discover what their bodies need in order to heal. This story may stretch your imagination, but I assure you every word is as true as I can tell it. We each have a unique voice. I have attempted to tell a story which conveys the truth of my journey in a way that others might say, She is telling my story.
Author: Gary E. Schwartz PhD
Paperback: 272 pages
Publisher: Atria; Reprint edition (August 19, 2008)
Gary E. Schwartz's new book covers many energy modalities, including Healing Touch. He tells marvelous stories of healings and uses experiments to confirm that the human body is a bundle of energy that can be healed by another such bundle of energy.
- The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy. Dale. (2009)
- * Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field. Brennan. (1988)
- Joy's Way, A Map for the Transformational Journey: An Introduction to the Potentials for Healing with Body Energies. Joy. (1979)
- Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing. Myss. (1997)
- Consciousness and the Source of Reality. Jahn, Dunne. (2011)
- The Creation of Health: The Emotional, Psychological, and Spiritual Responses That Promote Health and Healing. Myss, Shealy. (1998)
- Eastern Body, Western Mind: Psychology and the Chakra System As a Path to the Self. Judith. (2004)
- Energy Anatomy, Myss. Audio CD. (2002)
- Energy Healing: The Essentials of Self-Care. (Foreword by Weil) (2013)
- Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis, 2e. (2000)
- Healing Touch: Essential Energy Medicine for Yourself and Others. (2011)
- Esoteric Healing (A Treatise on the Seven Rays). Bailey (1953)
- Holistic Nursing: A Handbook for Practice. 4th edition (2004)
- Intuitive Self-Healing: Achieve Balance and Wellness Through the Body's Energy Centers. Manuchehri. (2012)
- Letting Go: The Pathway of Surrender. Hawkins. (2014)
- Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing. Brennan. (1993)
- Pendulum Power: A Mystery You Can See, A Power You Can Feel. Nielsen, Polansky.(1987)
- Spiritual Alchemy: How to Transform Your Life. Page. (2005)
- Spontaneous Evolution: Our Positive Future and a Way to Get There From Here. Lipton, Bhaerman. (2010)
- The Anatomy Coloring Book. Kapit, Elson. 3rd Edition. (2001)
- The Art of Healing: Uncovering Your Inner Wisdom and Potential for Self-Healing. Siegel. (2013)
- The Biology of Belief: Unleashing the Power of Consciousness, Matter, & Miracles. Lipton (2007)
- The Bond: Connecting Through the Space Between Us. McTaggert. (2011)
- The Emotion Code. Nelson. (2007)
- The Energy Cure: Unraveling the Mystery of Hands-On Healing. Bengston. (2010)
- Healing Path. Barasch (1995)
- The Intention Experiment: Using Your Thoughts to Change Your Life and the World. McTaggart. (2008)
- The Hidden Messages in Water. Emoto. (2005)
- The Power of the Mind to Heal. Borysenko, Borysenko. (1995)
- The Secret Language of Your Body: The Essential Guide to Health and Wellness. Segal. (Forward by Siegel) (2010)
- The Spiritual Power of Empathy: Develop Your Intuitive Gifts for Compassionate Connection. Dale. (2014)
- The Subtle Body Practice Manual: A Comprehensive Guide to Energy Healing. Dale. (2014)
- Vibrational Medicine: The 1 Handbook of Subtle-Energy Therapies. Gerber. 3rd Edition. (2001)
- Wheels of Life: A User's Guide to the Chakra System (Llewellyn's New Age Series). Judith. (1999)
- Wheels of Light: Chakras, Auras, and the Healing Energy of the Body. Bruyere. (1994)
Additional Books for Continuing Study: Energy Medicine/Holism
- Caring Science as Sacred Science. Watson. (2004)
- Energetic Approaches to Emotional Healing (Nurse As Healer Series) by Dorothea Hover-Kramer (1996-11-06). Hover-Kramer, Shames. (1996)
- Hands of Life: Use Your Body's Own Energy Medicine for Healing, Recovery, and Transformation. Motz. (2000)
- Invisible Helpers. 3rd Edition (1912)
- The Energetics of Healing [DVD] [NTSC] by (2004-05-01). Myss. DVD. (2004)
- * The Field: The Quest for the Secret Force of the Universe. McTaggart. (2003)
- * The Body Electric: Electromagnetism And The Foundation Of Life. Becker, Selden. (1998)
- * Dancing Wu Li Masters: An Overview of the New Physics. Zukav. (2001)
- Energy Medicine in Therapeutics and Human Performance, 1e (Energy Medicine in Therapeutics & Human Performance). Oschman. (2003)
- * Molecules Of Emotion: The Science Behind Mind-Body Medicine. Pert. (1999)
- * Quantum Healing (Revised and Updated): Exploring the Frontiers of Mind/Body Medicine. Chopra. (1990)
- * Quantum Reality: Beyond the New Physics. (1987)
- * The Holographic Universe: The Revolutionary Theory of Reality. Talbot. (1992)
- Quantum Doctor, The: A Quantum Physicist Explains the Healing Power of Integral Medicine. Goswami; (Foreword by Chopra) (2011)
- * The New Physics of Healing. Chopra. Audio CD. (2002)
- All is Well: Heal Your Body with Medicine, Affirmations, and Intuition. Hay,Schulz. (2014)
- Called Into Healing: Reclaiming Our Judeo-Christian Legacy of Healing Touch, 2nd Edition. Smith. 2nd edition. (2006)
- Fire in the Heart: Healers, Sages, and Mystics. Markides. (1992)
- Healing from the Heart: A Guide to Christian Healing for Individuals and Groups. Graham. (1998)
- Healing Words: The Power of Prayer and the Practice of Medicine. Dossey. (1997)
- * Homage to the Sun: The Wisdom of the Magus of Strovolos. Markides (1988)
- * Sacred Mirrors: The Visionary Art of Alex Grey. Grey, Wilber, & McCormick. (1990)
- The Art of Empathy: A Complete Guide to Life's Most Essential Skill. McLaren. (2013)
- The Path of Transformation: How Healing Ourselves Can Change the World. Revised edition. (2000)
- The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment. Tolle. (2004)
- The Sacred Purpose of Being Human: A Journey Through the 12 Principles of Wholeness. Small. (2005)
- The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide. Zukav. (1990)
- * Spiritual Madness: The Necessity of Meeting God in Darkness. Myss. Audio CD. (2002)
- The Chakras. Leadbeater. (1973)
- * Chakra and the Human Energy Fields. Karagulla, Gelder & Kunz. (2002)
- The Gift of Change: Spiritual Guidance for Living Your Best Life. Williamson. (2006)
- The Uncommon Touch. Harpur. (1995)
- * Walking a Sacred Path: Rediscovering the Labyrinth as a Spiritual Practice. Artress. (2006)
- Wherever You Go, There You Are. Kabat-zinn. (2005)
Additional Books for Continuing Study: Spiritual Development
- Care Of The Soul - A Guide For Cultivating Depth And Sacredness In Everyday Life. Moore. (1994)
- Love & Survival - The Scientific Basis For The Healing Power Of Intimacy. Ornish. (1999)
- The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation. Nhat Hanh. (1999)
- Serving Humanity: A Compilation. Bailey. (1999)
- The Healing Gifts of the Spirit. Sanford. (1984)
- Healing Power of Prayer, The. Meehan. (1988)
- Angel Detox: Taking Your Life to a Higher Level Through Releasing Emotional, Physical, and Energetic Toxins. Virtue, Reeves. (2015)
- Angels of Abundance: Heaven’s 11 Messages to Help You Manifest Support, Supply, and Every Form of Abundance. Virtue, Virtue. (2014)
- Assertiveness for Earth Angels: How to Be Loving Instead of "Too Nice". Virtue. (2014)
- A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles". Williamson. (1996)
- Becoming the Healer: The Miracle of Brain Injury. Schlag. (2012)
- * The Bodymind Workbook: Exploring How the Mind and the Body Work Together. Shapiro. (1990)
- Born to Serve: The Evolution of the Soul Through Service(Book I). Trout. (1997)
- Business Mastery: A Guide for Creating a Fulfilling, Thriving Business and Keeping it Successful. Sohnen-Moe. 3rd edition. (1997)
- * Creating Affluence: The A-to-Z Steps to a Richer Life. Chopra, Carlson. (1998)
- Creative Imagery for Nurse Healers: Nurse as Healer Series. Shames. (1995)
- Don't Let Anything Dull Your Sparkle: How to Break Free of Negativity and Drama. Virtue. (2015)
- Caroline Myss' Essential Guide for Healers. Myss. Audio CD. (2006)
- Feelings Buried Alive Never Die. Truman. (1991)
- Heal Your Body, Fourth Edition. Hay. (1984)
- Healers on Healing (New Consciousness Reader). Carlson. (1989)
- Inspiration: Your Ultimate Calling. Dyer. (2006)
- Mirror Work: 21 Days to Heal Your Life. Hay. (2016)
- Profiles of Nurse Healers. Keegan, Dossey. (1997)
- The Extraordinary Healing Power of Ordinary Things: Fourteen Natural Steps to Health and Happiness. Dossey. (2006)
- The Heart Speaks: A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing. Guarneri. (2007)
- The Healer Within: Using Traditional Chinese Techniques To Release Your Body's Own Medicine, Movement, Massage, Meditation, Breathing. Jahnke. (1999)
- The Power of Intention. Dyer. (2005)
- The Spiritual Entrepreneur. Morgen. (2008)
- * The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change. Covey. (2004)
- * Wishcraft: How to Get What You Really Want. Gottlieb. 2nd edition. (2003)
- You Can Heal Your Life. Hay. (1984)
Additional Books for Continuing Study: Personal/Professional Development
- Excuse Me, Your Life Is Waiting: The Astonishing Power of Feelings. Grabhorn. (2003
- Nanda Nursing Diagnoses: Definitions and Classification 2005-2006. Nanda Staff (no publisher information is available) (2004)
- Principle-Centered Leadership. Covey. (1992)
- Spiritual Economics: The Principles and Process of True Prosperity. Butterworth. 3rd edition.(2001)
- The Path to Love: Spiritual Strategies for Healing. Chopra. (1998)
- Your Sixth Sense: Unlocking the Power of Your Intuition (Plus). Naparstek. (1998)
- The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity [10th Anniversary Edition] by Cameron, Julia (2nd (second) Edition) [Paperback(2002)]. Cameron. 10th Anniversary edition. (2002)
- * Journal to the Self: Twenty-Two Paths to Personal Growth - Open the Door to Self-Understanding by Writing, Reading, and Creating a Journal of Your Life. Adams. (1990)
- * Journal to the Soul: The Art of Sacred Journal Keeping. Offner. (1996)
- * By Christina Baldwin - Life's Companion: Journal Writing as a Spiritual Practice (1st Edition) (11.1.1990). Baldwin. (1990)
- * The Nurse's Meditative Journal: Nurse as Healer Series. Kahn. (1995)
- * The Creative Journal: The Art of Finding Yourself. Capacchione. 2nd revised edition. (2001)
- The Power of Your Other Hand, Revised Edition. Capacchione. (2001)
- The Well-Being Journal: Drawing Upon Your Inner Power to Heal Yourself. Capacchione. (1989)
- Visual Journaling: Going Deeper than Words. Ganim. (1999)
- Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within. Goldberg. (2006)
- Writing Down Your Soul: How to Activate and Listen to the Extraordinary Voice Within. Conner. (2009)
- Creating Healing Relationships: Professional Standards for Energy Therapy Practitioners. Hover-Kramer. (2011)
- The Ethics of Touch: The Hands-on Practitioner's Guide to Creating a Professional, Safe and Enduring Practice. Sohnen-Moe, Benjamin. (2004)
- Ethics for the New Millennium. The Hon. Dalai Lama. (2001)