During years of research and practice, Krieger and her mentor--the late medical intuitive and clairvoyant, Kunz--found illness to be caused by energy imbalance. This guide teaches readers to rebalance the body's energy through touch, visualization, and a spiritual acceptance HEALTH Therapeutic Touch is a powerful technique for rebalancing the body's energy through touch, visualization, and spiritual acceptance of life's inevitable cycle. Developed by Dora Kunz (1904-1999), medical intuitive and fifth generation clairvoyant, and Dolores Krieger, pioneer researcher on the dynamics of healing, this extraordinary method has put authentic healing into the hands of health care providers. It has been taught in hospitals and at universities to tens of thousands of health care professionals since 1972. This book examines the dynamic interrelationship between healer and patient and the vital role of expanded levels of consciousness as they relate to the healing process. It provides an intimate glimpse into the life work of Dora Kunz in an engaging series of her never-before-transcribed lectures and case studies, accompanied by insightful commentary from Dolores Krieger. During their years of shared research and healing practice, the authors found illness to be rooted in specific subtle energy imbalances. They developed a transpersonal energetic approach to healing physical pain using centering and self-awareness practices. The practices and exercises they share in The Spiritual Dimension of Therapeutic Touch will help practitioners achieve the sensitivity and spiritual empathy necessary to effectively access and respond to energy imbalances in themselves and in their patients, to promote physical healing as well as mental and spiritual peace. DORA KUNZ, former president of the Theosophical Society of America, was the author of The Personal Aura, editor of Spiritual Aspects of the Healing Arts, and coauthor of The Chakras and the Human Energy Fields. DOLORES KRIEGER, Ph.D., R.N., is the author of The Therapeutic Touch, Accepting Your Power to Heal, and Therapeutic Touch Inner Workbook and is a professor emerita of nursing science at New York University. Acknowledgments ix An Introduction to Dora Kunz and to Therapeutic Touch 1(12) Section I: CONSCIOUSNESS AND HEALING 13(30) Levels of Consciousness 16(9) Centered Healing 25(18) Section II: THE CONTEXT OF THERAPEUTIC TOUCH 43(42) Nature's Order and Meditation 48(15) Destiny and Death 63(22) Section III: THE NATURE OF THERAPEUTIC TOUCH 85(46) The Dynamics of Therapeutic Touch 92(19) Therapeutic Touch and Personal Growth 111(20) Section IV: CHAKRAS AND THE THERAPEUTIC TOUCH PROCESS 131(26) The Chakras as Centers of Consciousness 134(5) Clinical Relationships to the Chakras 139(10) Beneficial Influences on the Chakras 149(8) Section V: CLINICAL APPLICATIONS OF THERAPEUTIC TOUCH 157(38) The Context of Wholeness 163(7) Techniques for Pain Reduction 170(16) Working with People with AIDS 186(4) Supporting Persons with Terminal Illness 190(5) Section VI: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 195(20) Section VII: THE ANGELIC KINGDOM AND HUMANITY 215(33) A Network of Intelligences 222(26) Afterword 248(6) References 254(2) Therapeutic Touch Resources 256(2) Index 258