Written on March 23, 2011 at 12:06 pm by Lisa Gordon

Self Care- Are You Doing These Simple Things?

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2011 Healing Touch Worldwide Conference

 
August 25 – 28 Grand Hyatt, San Antonio, Texas
 
 
If you don’t practice self care – who will?

Healing Touch practitioners know how deeply self care is emphasized throughout the Healing Touch curriculum. Janet Mentgen continuously stressed the importance and value of daily self care.

But alas, knowing and doing are two different things. Those who are called to “do the work” of Healing Touch often need to be reminded to examine their self care practices and make necessary adjustments.

Self care and its relevance on health and wellness is being studied and addressed widely today in relation to overall health and wellbeing, and in relation to specific physical and mental health conditions.

Take time to examine your commitment to self care and consider the many ways that joining your Healing Touch community at this year’s conference can play a significant role in nurturing and caring for your own beautiful self. Coming to the conference will allow you to:

  • Renew your commitment to self care Learn new techniques and ways to engage in ongoing self care
  • Take time for yourself
  • Share with old friends and build new relationships
  • Discover different healing modalities
  • Take a break from your daily routine and commitments
  • Open yourself up to the surprises that will happen
  • Laugh with others
  • Feel loved, understood and accepted in a community of like-minded energy sensitive beings

If you don’t practice self care – who will?

Healing Touch practitioners know how deeply self care is emphasized throughout the Healing Touch curriculum. Janet Mentgen continuously

stressed the importance and value of daily self care. But alas, knowing and doing are two different things. Those who are called to “do the work”

of Healing Touch often need to be reminded to examine their self care practices and make necessary adjustments.

Self care and its relevance on health and wellness is being studied and addressed widely today in relation to overall health and wellbeing, and in relation to specific physical and mental health conditions.

Regular and consistent self care results in increased emotional and physical health.

Caring for your body and spirit helps you feel good about yourself and your life, and provides a positive example.
Did you know that people who neglect to care for themselves tend to have lower self esteem and greater levels of illness, unhappiness and resentment?
A recent study conducted at Duke University cited that clergy often neglect self care and that many deal with obesity, chronic disease, depression and anxiety.
The US Army recognizes the many benefits that self care has on improving physical and mental health. They published a self care toolkit for service personnel. It states:
 
  

“Self-care is practicing prevention and taking personal responsibility for health. It includes a wide range of health-related decision making skills and care

undertaken by individuals on their own behalf . . . A self-care program emphasizes the importance of both prevention and responsibility.”

 
  • Renew your commitment to self care
  • Learn new techniques and ways to engage in ongoing self care
  • Take time for yourself
  • Share with old friends and build new relationships
  • Discover different healing modalities
  • Take a break from your daily routine and commitments
  • Open yourself up to the surprises that will happen
  • Laugh with others

Feel loved, understood and accepted in a community of like-minded energy sensitive beings

Support your self care at the conference through:

  • Early morning movement activities
  • The Natural Bridge Caverns Tour
  • Entertainment, music, laughter and sharing meals together
  • Use of the treatment room for Healing Touch exchanges
  • Using the hotel exercise facility and pool
  • Access to the River Walk area (great shopping & dining!)
  • Using sound to connect body, heart, mind and soul

Learning simple tools for self healing

 

Self care is one of the learning tacks of the conference this year.

You will see the red butterfly in the selection of breakout sessions, panel discussions and post-conference workshops.

 

Self Care Conference Learning Tracks

Keynote

Sound – The Healing Bridge, Arden Wilken

Breakout Sessions

Healing the Healer – Simple Tools for Self Healing, Ann Marie Chiasson Celebrating Healing from Trauma, Abuse and Disasters, Mary Jo Bulbrook Cool Responses to Heated Discussions: Understanding Beliefs and Developing Effective Strategies for Responding to Criticism, Debra Basha, & Joel P. Bowman Self Care 101: Juggling, Barbara Starke

Panel Discussion

Self Care for Practitioner Development

Post Conference Workshops

Traumatic Stress Relief Team: Healing in the Midst of Chaos, Kathy Allan Integrating SoulCollage© into a Healing Touch Practice, Jan Willar, & Patricia Crow Aromatherapy for Symptom Relief, Pamela Larsen Schroeder Utilizing Auricular Acupressure: Integrating 5-point protocol into your HT Self care, Barbara Starke

 

Read more about each of these offerings on the conference website.

 

We are excited to see you in August!
Early Bird Pricing is available until May 15th. 
Regular prices good until August 18, after that is the at the door price.
 

 

 

 

 

Testimonials from the 2010 Healing Touch Worldwide Conference

"This has been a tremendous conference. It has been well organized, fun and filled with good information.

I appreciate the time allowed to visit, shop and do some self-care. The Spirit of Joy permeated the conference each day."

 
"Fabulous all the way around!"
"This conference was so uplifting and had a different energy from last year. I don’t know if it was the subject or the shift, but it was wonderful. Thank you for the wonderful program!"
"This was the most heartfelt, love/spirit focused HT conference I have ever attended (13 of them so far). I applaud the choices of keynotes and workshops (also still nursing focused) just perfect!"

"This conference was very meaningful, reconnecting and boosting for me and many others I talked with."

 

 Take time to examine your commitment to self care and consider the many ways that joining your Healing Touch community

 



Written on December 19, 2010 at 7:44 am by Lisa Gordon

The Plight and Flight of Hummers by Deb Klueter, RN, BSN, HNB-BC, HTCP

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Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program December/January Issue. The Plight and Flight of Hummers by Deb Klueter, RN, BSN, HNB-BC, HTCP

 Upon returning from the 2010 Healing Touch Program Conference on “The Joy of Healing, A Journey with the Heart,” with all the talk of hum-mers and their symbology, I recalled an event that occurred a few years ago, following a previ-ous Healing Touch conference where I heard a neurologist speak on trauma. I feel compelled to write about it now as I complete another phase of my personal healing journey. Delightful little crea-tures that they are, hummingbirds bring us the message to “lighten up” and find joy. Just like the laughing Buddha or Jesus’ laughter, hummers, like these spiritual masters, remind us that life is not to be taken too seriously. Of course, this is easier said than done when one enters their “dark night of the soul” but, nevertheless, it is well worth the effort and the journey! Read the rest of this entry »



Written on December 16, 2010 at 5:39 am by Lisa Gordon

Essential Energy with Cyndi Dale by Cyndi Dale

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Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program December/January Issue . Essential Energy with Cyndi Dale by Cyndi Dale

The Healing Touch of Joy — No Matter What You Eat

My dad grew up during the Depression. His father had been a mechanic, but because of the poor economy, my grandfather did not work for much of my father’s childhood. He drank instead. My grandmother took in laundry. I cannot imagine there were happy times, even at the holidays. There was a story my father told, however, that suggested otherwise, and which taught me a lesson about joy. My father was one hundred percent Norwegian, a rather stubborn and profound heritage. Imagine a tribe that spends eleven months buried in a snow bank and the leftover month shoveling out. Well, it would get to you, too. Your life view would reduce to this: If you are not too miserable, you might be happy. Holidays were spent eating foods (it would be a stretch to suggest the word “enjoying meals”) that were mainly white, boiled, and if lucky, swathed in butter. One such necessity in my father’s household was a version of lutefisk made with this recipe. Norwegian Recipe for Joy Take dry stockfish (cod) Soak in strong lye for two days Salt the jellied solution Put in a barrel Bury in ground for several months Consume at Christmastime (Clothespins for the nose recommended) According to folklore, lutefisk was actually an Irish invention, conceived during the invasion of Ireland by the Vikings. Saint Patrick, in defense of his country, sent poison fish to the raiders to kill them off. Norwegians being Norwegian, they greedily imbibed the poisoned fish, smacking their lips, so Saint Patrick had his men pour lye on the next batch, sure that this would do the trick. The Vikings declared lutefisk an incomparable delicacy. As my father tells it, he loved the holidays because he and his sister were given a nickel to ride the streetcar to Ingebretsen’s, the Norwegian deli, located all the way across town. Not only that, but everyone would vacate the streetcar on the way home because, even wrapped in several layers of newspaper, the prize was so pungent, the other streetcar riders would flee or refuse to board. The holidays are a time for joy; at least, that is our expectation. Joy is different to different people. To my father, joy was chasing people off the streetcar—not the one named “Desire,” the more aromatic version. To others, holiday joy involves opening presents, greeting relatives, or attending a place of worship. There are many people, however, who do not have much to celebrate during the holiday season. Perhaps a loved one has just died or they have no loved ones. Maybe they have lost their job, home, health, or hope. It is for these individuals that Heal-ing Touch can make a tender difference. A Healing Touch practitioner does not have to enter the home, clinic, or hovel of the desperate, or even know the name of one in need to find someone lacking joy. The healing power of love is available to anyone, always, through the heart. Because of love, healing is timeless and priceless, especially at the holidays. No special wrapping is needed, just plain newsprint works, even if it surrounds lutefisk! Can you imagine the definition of healing in a culture devoted to the stoic denial of misery? At least there was no need for anesthesia. Given the constant state of hypothermia, you would be too cold to feel anything. And yet, in the midst of a frozen season, in fact, a decade of despondency, my father found healing in a joyous moment. In addition to our own traditions, what if we were to each take a moment every day of the holy-days and send good wishes to those who do not have the energy or capacity to imagine goodness for themselves? Love truly does make the world go around, near and far — it touches each and every one of us. About the author: Cyndi Dale is the author of The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy, and eight other bestselling books on energy healing, including The Complete Book of Chakra Healing. She has worked with over 30,000 clients in the past 20 years. To learn more about Cyndi, her work, books and products please visit: www.cyndidale.com

© 2010 Cyndi Dale/Essential Energy • All Rights Reserved



Written on December 12, 2010 at 6:45 am by Lisa Gordon

Understanding and Embracing the Certification Examination by Cathy McJannet, RN, MN, CEN, HTCP/I

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Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program December/January Issue Understanding and Embracing the Certification Examination by Cathy McJannet, RN, MN, CEN, HTCP/I

We are sure that there are some of you may be feeling some angst as we approach finalization of the certification exam for HTP. Fear not! We are here to help you prepare and want to reassure you that all of this is worth the effort! “Why do we have to have this exam?” some of you are asking. I believe that this is an opportunity for HTP to raise the bar to demonstrate to the public that a Healing Touch Certified Practitioner meets similar certification standards as other Healing Arts Programs. Those of us that are HTP certified know how rigorous our current process is, but this certification is not in a format that meets the higher caliber professional standard that agencies such as Magnet Status hospitals are requested to meet. Expectations of the level of knowledge, ability, and professionalism that the HTCP must have, need to be demonstrated at this higher level in order to qualify for national accreditation. HTP’s certification exam process will facilitate HTP meeting those requirements, maintain our position as a leader in the field of energy medicine, and will make your credential more valuable and more versatile. Read the rest of this entry »



Written on September 6, 2010 at 2:38 pm by Lisa Gordon

September/October Energy Magazine:Greetings from Cynthia Hutchison

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Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program September/October Issue.  Greetings from Cynthia Hutchison Healing Touch Program Director Read the rest of this entry »



Written on August 7, 2010 at 1:55 pm by Lisa Gordon

We Made Conference!

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Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program August Issue.   We Made Conference  by Margaret Nies, photo by Cathy Anderson August 2010 Read the rest of this entry »



Written on August 5, 2010 at 12:51 pm by Lisa Gordon

Highlights of the 2010 Instructor Gathering

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Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program August Issue. August 2010

Highlights of the 2010 Instructor Gathering held August  4-5th, 2010

by Cynthia Hutchison, HTP Program Director,

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Written on August 4, 2010 at 11:56 am by Lisa Gordon

Highlights from the 2010 Healing Touch Worldwide Conference

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Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program August Issue. August 2010

Highlights from the 2010 Healing Touch Worldwide Conference

by Cynthia Hutchison, HTP Program Director,

Photos by Cathy Anderson

For those of you who are interested in a summary of conference events here are some Conference highlights! Read the rest of this entry »



Written on August 3, 2010 at 10:16 am by Lisa Gordon

Healing Touch Essential Energy

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Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program August Issue.  Healing Touch Essential Energy By: Cyndi Dale
August 2010 Read the rest of this entry »



Written on August 1, 2010 at 10:58 am by Lisa Gordon

August Energy Magazine Greetings from Cynthia Hutchison

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Originally published in Energy Magazine: The official Publication of the Healing Touch Program August Issue. 
Greetings from Cynthia Hutchison, Healing Touch Program Director  August 2010 Read the rest of this entry »

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