Healing Touch (HT) is an energy therapy in which
practitioners consciously use their hands and intent to promote health
and healing. HT utilizes uses only very light or near-body touch to
influence the energy field that penetrates and surrounds the body. Many
types of energy medicine employ techniques to influence these fields by
applying light or near-body touch on the body or by placing the hands in
or through the field. Qigong, Jin Shin Jyutsu, and Reiki are other examples of this type of therapeutic approach.