Healing Touch would be great for you! Its not just for someone having pain. Its a relaxation technique. It helps balance your physical body, mind, emotions and spirit. I had severe anxiety and depression. I was even thinking intrusive scary thoughts in the beginning of October. Once i tried healing touch, all that went away at end of October.

When i have a patient that is anxious, cant sleep, depressed, or having pain....i offer it to them. Its good for everyone and helps with every aspect of who you are as a person. When people say how anxiety can make your symptoms worse....well thats an emotion affecting your physical body, right? So the thought is to balance your mental health, your emotional health, and your physical health and symptoms lessen. Think about a highly stressed out person who gets a stomach ulcer....thats an emotion manifesting itself in your physical body. So Healing Touch is an energy therapy done to help with all aspects of who you are.

I've done community health clinics where we did healing touch for the community. Most people didnt know what it was. They were coming in to get their eyes checked, bone density tests, blood pressure, etc. So we had everyone go to blood pressure station first, then come get Healing Touch. After a 20 minute treatment, they went back to get their blood pressure checked. Some people had very drastic changes in their blood pressure. Anywhere from 10-40mmhg lower difference in their systolic blood pressure and a lowering of the heart rate. All signs that they were more "relaxed afterwards" and the positive effects of receiving a treatment.

My neurologist said today to me during my checkup that every patient she has that gets Healing Touch treatments, does so much better than the patients who dont receive it. She now suggests it to her patients because we have had so much success in the hospital with it.

A very important study was just done at Camp Peddleton in california and should be published very soon. They had a large group of military with PTSD and one group got healing touch and therapy and the other group only got therapy. The group that got healing touch all showed significant improvements where they were no longer having anxiety attacks and no longer depressed, nightmares decreased, and they were able to be reintegrated back into their lives and fully functioning. The other group did very poorly. Now that the study is done, they are giving the non-healing touch group Healing Touch so that they will all recover fully as well.

So you see Nick, its not just for pain....its for everything. I barely have anxiety now.....and i have had it my whole life, and awful awful anxiety during my PCS. And its because of these relaxation techniques i learned from healing touch. Im not just speaking as a nurse....im speaking as a patient. im living proof of how well it works. I've met other brain injury survivors who also deal with their PCS with healing touch and are doing just as good.

Dont give up. You have come too far to give up now. Sending you healing thoughts.