The Pocket Encyclopaedia of Healing Touch Therapies
March 29th 2011 00:08
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Review by David Jobling
Link: www.fairwindspress.com/
The Pocket Encyclopaedia of Healing Touch TherapiesSkye Alexander and Anne Schnider
There are a great deal of ways you can avoid getting pains and aches, but when you have them there are only so many things you can do for comfort. Those who wish to try other alternatives to the pain-killer pill will find this book useful. Those who are out there studying or doing these things, this is genuinely a little gem.
This lightweight encyclopaedia provides good photographic illustrations, details of the location of points and directions. It offers all you need for specific things, and then a little by way of additional tips such as getting yourself ready or creating the space you intend on using to deploy your arsenal of healing touches.
This little book is indeed exactly what the title says, and it is as welcome as a warm handshake on a cold afternoon. In the area of alternative healing and self help you are likely to find many a modest looking book with a title that seems too big to be contained within such modesty. In this case it unfolds as a comprehensive list of useful applications of acupressure, Reiki and reflexology.
Reiki by now is reasonably well known as a hands-on healing energy that has been around for some time. Personally I was introduced to Mahikari in the late nineteen seventies. What was introduced to me as Mahikari and applied as such, I understand to be quite similar to Reiki in so much as the focus is in healing energy transferred via the hands. I have received both Reiki and Mahikari healing from a variety of people and I do find it relaxing.
I have always been interested and actively involved in learning about the healing touch. Massage, acupressure and reflexology are subjects I have studied through short courses and workshops. For me the training involved as a young actor included a good deal of physical work and physical therapy. It was the disco era, Jane "Make it burn" Fonda, pushed us all along and so did Gale Edwards, Meryl Tankard, George Ogilvie and every other dance or movement instructor I ever had. I also pushed others along as a warm-up leader at the Sydney Theatre Company on productions directed by Wayne Harrison. In the case of warming up a cast before they go on stage for a show there's a routine I used to take people through that got them energised but relaxed. Looking through this pocket encyclopaedia reminds me of so many of those sessions before a show or during a rehearsal period.
This tome contains the really useful information you can pass on to people easily that does not work for everyone necessarily, but it assists most people. Applying certain physical pressure can assist in the reduction of pain and anxiety I am sure of that. Sore neck, shoulders and lower back often come up as problems people have, particularly these days with computers being so well used. Many people sit in a bad position and end up with these common OHS problems. Apply certain pressure to yourself, just a warm squeeze with the hands usually, and you can help yourself avoid too much pain.
David Jobling
There are a great deal of ways you can avoid getting pains and aches, but when you have them there are only so many things you can do for comfort. Those who wish to try other alternatives to the pain-killer pill will find this book useful. Those who are out there studying or doing these things, this is genuinely a little gem.
This lightweight encyclopaedia provides good photographic illustrations, details of the location of points and directions. It offers all you need for specific things, and then a little by way of additional tips such as getting yourself ready or creating the space you intend on using to deploy your arsenal of healing touches.
This little book is indeed exactly what the title says, and it is as welcome as a warm handshake on a cold afternoon. In the area of alternative healing and self help you are likely to find many a modest looking book with a title that seems too big to be contained within such modesty. In this case it unfolds as a comprehensive list of useful applications of acupressure, Reiki and reflexology.
Reiki by now is reasonably well known as a hands-on healing energy that has been around for some time. Personally I was introduced to Mahikari in the late nineteen seventies. What was introduced to me as Mahikari and applied as such, I understand to be quite similar to Reiki in so much as the focus is in healing energy transferred via the hands. I have received both Reiki and Mahikari healing from a variety of people and I do find it relaxing.
I have always been interested and actively involved in learning about the healing touch. Massage, acupressure and reflexology are subjects I have studied through short courses and workshops. For me the training involved as a young actor included a good deal of physical work and physical therapy. It was the disco era, Jane "Make it burn" Fonda, pushed us all along and so did Gale Edwards, Meryl Tankard, George Ogilvie and every other dance or movement instructor I ever had. I also pushed others along as a warm-up leader at the Sydney Theatre Company on productions directed by Wayne Harrison. In the case of warming up a cast before they go on stage for a show there's a routine I used to take people through that got them energised but relaxed. Looking through this pocket encyclopaedia reminds me of so many of those sessions before a show or during a rehearsal period.
This tome contains the really useful information you can pass on to people easily that does not work for everyone necessarily, but it assists most people. Applying certain physical pressure can assist in the reduction of pain and anxiety I am sure of that. Sore neck, shoulders and lower back often come up as problems people have, particularly these days with computers being so well used. Many people sit in a bad position and end up with these common OHS problems. Apply certain pressure to yourself, just a warm squeeze with the hands usually, and you can help yourself avoid too much pain.
David Jobling
Author: Skye Alexander
Author: Anne Schneider
Format: Paperback, 304 Pages
Item: 192607
ISBN: 9781592334520
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
Author: Anne Schneider
Format: Paperback, 304 Pages
Item: 192607
ISBN: 9781592334520
Publisher: Fair Winds Press
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