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The use of touch has been long associated with healing. [12] For instance, acupuncture needling, an ancient practice in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and a touch therapeutic technique, deals with the insertion of needles into the skin in order to affect one's mood and perception of pain. [13]
Therapeutic touch (TT), or non-contact therapeutic touch (NCTT), [1] is a pseudoscientific [2] energy therapy which practitioners claim promotes healing and reduces pain and anxiety.
Energy healing techniques such as therapeutic touch have found recognition in the nursing profession. In 2005–2006, the North American Nursing Diagnosis Association approved the diagnosis of " energy field disturbance " in patients, reflective of what has been variously called a " postmodern " or "anti-scientific" approach to nursing care.
Rosen Method Bodywork practitioners contact this tension with a non-intrusive, listening and responsive touch along with words that reflect shifts in the body's muscles and breath. As muscles relax and breathing deepens, feelings and memories of what has been held out of conscious awareness by chronic tension becomes conscious.
Reich used vegetotherapy to name somatic psychology as it was touching upon the nervous system. [4] Reich's approach goes beyond traditional therapies, it emphasizes the significance of the body on therapeutic processes, by exploring the connections between the body, brain and mind to avoid certain tensions.
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Bodywork techniques also aim to assess or improve posture, promote awareness of the "bodymind connection" which is an approach that sees the human body and mind as a single integrated unit, or to manipulate the electromagnetic field alleged to surround the human body and affect health.
With this image is attached a characteristic body feeling peculiar to the image, which we call the somatic pattern. With this somatic pattern is attached a third state composed of a constellation of vague and clear meanings, which we call the meaning." [31] It is important to note that sensation, for Ahsen, included affective and physiological ...