Explore Healing Touch and Spiritual Direction Services
At Agape’s Healing, discover the transformative power of healing touch and spiritual direction services. Each is designed to bring balance and peace to your life and foster a deeper relationship with God. Learn more about how these services can support your journey toward holistic wellness and personal growth. The healing touch and spiritual direction services are tailored to meet your unique needs, focusing on balance and inner peace. Discover how each service can help you on your journey.
Healing Touch Sessions
Healing touch's heart-centered, gentle, and non-invasive approach promotes energy balance and reduces stress. Each session is personalized to your specific needs. Healing Touch Energy Therapy offers numerous benefits that enhance your overall well-being. It is considered a complementary practice to traditional Western Medicine. It promotes deep relaxation and stress relief, enhances the body’s natural healing processes, and supports emotional and spiritual well-being, making it a holistic approach to health.
Does it actually work?
We have lots of systems in our body: circulatory, respiratory, bone structure, etc. We have an energy system too! There is energy that is constantly flowing in and around the body. Just like any injury causes a bruise or bleeding (impacting circulation), injuries and illness can impact the flow of our energy. This can result in increased pain, emotional distress, or even some illnesses. So when someone performs healing touch, they are addressing those areas of blocked energy. Yes, it works! More research is being done in this area to prove it scientifically.
Why does it work?
This is the question of a lot of current and recent research. So far, it is inconclusive. While every system of the body is impacted by every other system, energy is unique that it permeates everything. (I'm not trying to sound like Yoda from Star Wars.) But energy impacts even the emotional and spiritual systems in ways that other bodily systems don't. It's best to accept it as "We don't know why it works, but we can prove that it does work."
What benefits has research shown?
Healing Touch, is Complementary Medicine. Complementary medicine is a term used to describe types of treatments you may receive along with traditional Western Medicine. Other examples of complementary medicine include massage, meditation, biofeedback, music therapy, and dietary supplements. Receiving healing touch can:
- Decrease pain, anxiety, and stress
- Increase relaxation
- Improve sleep
- Reduce side-effects of medication
- Supports cancer care
- Provide extra comfort during End of Life (For both family and the patient)
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Spiritual Direction Sessions
Spiritual Direction is a transformative journey within a safe and supportive space to explore your spiritual path, gain profound insights, and connect with God at a deeper level. I also seek to help you connect with your inner self so that you can be your most authentic self as often as is safe to do so.
Is there research on Spiritual Direction?
Spiritual Direction has a rich and ancient history. It's usually not as well-studied for research due to there not being a set standard for those who serve as directors. There is no official "certifying body" for Spiritual Direction. If anyone calls themselves a "Certified Spiritual Director", they are usually referring to a certificate of study awarded through a school or their congregation. This is slightly misleading, since it's not the same as being certified in a discipline. (ie: there are certifying bodies for Chaplains, Healing Touch Practitioners, etc.)
Are you saying Spiritual Direction isn't good, or doesn't work?
Not at all! I'm just being honest that there are differences between spiritual direction, chaplaincy, and healing touch. It's just more difficult to research its benefits in a scientific manner since there are many different techniques and spiritualities that any one director can apply in one session and since there isn't a standardized framework for training, it is more difficult for outsiders to assess.
What is Spiritual Direction good for?
Besides the obvious, of helping you deepen your relationship with God, it has many of the benefits of healing touch (which is why I practice them together). In fact, as Western Medicine catches up with Scientific Proofs for things we've inherently known and understood for thousands of years, Spiritual Direction falls under two umbrellas:
- Integrative Medicine - which considers your entire health and wellness, not limiting the therapeutic approach to the specific disease or organs involved. It focuses on the mental, emotional, functional, spiritual, social, and community aspects of your health
- Complementary Medicine - which is described above - because it utilizes many of the techniques that exist in other modalities of Complementary Medicine
What benefits can I expect?
Every director/directee relationship is unique. Some people are looking for a formal retreat-style direction, and others are looking for someone to just 'check in', to make sure they're going in the right direction. Some people desire the extra support it can provide during difficult times, still others have big decisions to make and rely on techniques concerning the Discernment of Spirits to help them. I have training and experience in all of these areas.
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