" In those I include: healthy simple foods(preferably organic), moderate (not compulsive) exercise, adequate rest, effective stress-reduction regimen, trying for true self-awareness (includes moderation in use of mind-altering subs, & making your peace with God and people - and music does almost all these things for me!"

Socorro I'm with you all the way! Thank you for mentioning *music* as perhaps one of the greatest 'healers' of all! And thank you too for pointing out the beneficial and powerful effects that 'energetic healing' techniques are meant to have, in 'scrupulous hands'! I'm VERY grateful to have worked with some of those!

It's encouraging to hear of Therapeutic Touch being taught and used in hospitals too. To have access to gentler, natural methods of pain relief etc. must be a real blessing for registered nurses and patients.
And surely as mainstream medical practitioners become more interested in and familiar with alternative methods of healing, knowledge about them will grow and 'abuses' will be less likely to occur.

daylia