HAELEN THERAPY - Recognizes that people who are in great pain are often unable to focus on the need to integrate body, mind, and spirit.
It combines therapeutic touch, psychotherapy, and counseling. Developed by Janet F. Quinn, PhD, R.N., a practitioner of therapeutic touch and holotropic breathwork, Haelan work attempts to assist people with physical illness to participate in their healing from a more holistic perspective.
HAKOMI BODYWORK - A system of body-centered psychotherapy that is based on the principles of mindfulness, nonviolence, and the unity of mind and body. Developed by therapist Ron Kurtz in the mid-1970s, Hakomi uses the tools of touch, massage, energy work, movement education, and body-mind awareness. By helping the client follow bodily tensions, feelings, and sensations, it leads to an awareness of the unconscious beliefs and attitudes that drive behavior and limit responses.
HEALING SOUNDS - The use of sound to create balance and alignment in the physical body, the energy centers (chakras) and/or the etheric fields. It is a vibration applied by an instrument or the human voice, and can be understood as a field of energy medicine. The
primary question in this field is: What are the correct resonant frequencies of the body?
HEALING TOUCH - Healing touch is an energy-based, hands-on technique done to balance and align the human energy field. The American Holistic Nurses Association approves the technique. In a session, the Healing Touch Practitioner moves their hands lightly over the client's body to re-align the energy flow and eliminate blockages. Clients are empowered and encouraged to participate fully in their self-healing journey.
HELLERWORK - Hellerwork is an outgrowth of Rolfing, created by Joseph Heller. It integrates movement and verbal communication with connective tissue work.
HEMME APPROACH - Developed in 1986 by Dave Leflet, Hemme stands for history, evaluation, modalities, manipulation, and exercise. The principles in the Hemme Approach are taken from physical medicine, osteopathy, chiropractic, and physical therapy.
HOSHINO THERAPY - Developed by Tomezo Hoshino in 1952, Hoshino Therapy is an official medical therapy in Argentina. It is a particular form of acupressure recognizing 250 acupuncture pressure points corresponding to the bio-mechanical functioning of the body. In this system, full hand contact is applied as well as the traditional pressure of the first joint of the thumb.
HOLOGRAPHIC MEMORY RELEASE - This is a powerful and subtle technique, developed by Charles Daily, D.C., that allows the HMR practitioner to quickly locate specific holographic touch points that are referenced to the individual's on-going process. As in reflexology, where the entire body is represented on the foot, these touch points correlate to whole-body microsystems. Through very light and specific digital contacts, a piezoelectric effect is created within the crystalline connective tissue memory system for instantaneous memory reframing. This self-assembly process enhances subtle self-observation within the individual. It increases individual somatic awareness and releases self-limiting beliefs and tension patterns that have been stored within the body/mind continuum. A 15-minute HMR session spontaneously generates coherent waves of cellular resonance in the connective tissue matrix and releases information log-jams that have robbed the individual of necessary vital capacity.
HOLOGRAPHIC NATURE OF HEALING - The holographic nature of healing is a year-long training program that combines hands-on energy work with verbal process work. The purpose of the training is to add skill to those who are already working energetically and to assist in providing supervised sessions with feedback in a group setting. There are three focus areas: The chakra system, hands-on healing technique and quantum psychology for process work.
HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK - Developed by Dr. Stanislov Grof, a psychiatrist working with people in non-ordinary states of consciousness, and by Christina Grof, a transpersonal teacher, this is a simple, yet powerful technique for self-exploration and healing based on combined insights from modern consciousness research, depth psychology and perennial spiritual practices. The method activates non-ordinary states of consciousness that mobilize the spontaneous healing potential of the psyche. Sustained effective breathing, evocative music, focused energy work and mandala drawing are components of this subjective journey. "Holotropic" literally means "moving toward wholeness." Virtually all ancient and native traditions recognize the psychological and spiritual healing potential of states of consciousness that differ from what we call ordinary. Holotropic Breath-work is a powerful method of self-exploration and healing. This work can be useful for artists wishing to facilitate their creativity, persons seeking a deep level of healing, those seeking to explore their inner self and/or the transpersonal dimensions, and it can lead to a spiritual opening and transformation.
HOSHINO THERAPY - Developed by Japanese-born, Argentine immigrant Tomezo Hoshino, Hoshino Therapy was declared an official medical therapy in Argentina in 1952. Hoshino is a non-intrusive massage and movement system to relieve and prevent musculoskeletal pain and restore vitality. Hoshino therapy recognizes 250 vital acupuncture pressure points directly over the muscles, tendons and ligaments that relate to the biomechanical functioning of the body. Pressure and body warmth are applied by the first joint of the thumb and with full-hand contact to reverse the hardening of the soft tissues. Therapy is combined with daily exercises called Hoshino Action.
HUMA TRANSPERSONAL BODYWORK - A method of bodywork that integrates subtle, articulate touch and verbal communication by combining the focus of physical and psychological health found in Western body-based tradition (Rosen Method is part of the foundation) with the deeper self, or inner guide, found in Eastern traditions.
HUMAN ENERGY DYNAMICS - This therapy, though similar to reiki, uses the English language instead of symbols. It involves setting up and normalizing polarities, as well as bringing universal energy into structures of the body. It is the mental manipulation of human energy to affect changes in one's self and in others.
HUNA KANE - This Hawaiian technique espouses that emotions and experiences are trapped in the fibers of each muscle group and organ in the body. Through a rhythmic massage technique where the practitioner "dances" with the forearm softly across their client's muscles while informing the client of the particular emotion being addressed (i.e., guilt, fear, anger, etc.), Huna Kane allows the client to re-experience that emotion and to clear it from their body. From this place of clarity, awareness, balance, peace and harmony become more accessible. Huna Kane is practiced on fully-clothed individuals lying on a mat on the floor. No table is involved.
HURLEY-OSBORNE TECHNIQUE™ - A soothing, non-force, non-invasive form of healing. Its aim is to correct postural distortions and promote vitality and good health. It does so by realigning the body through light touch to key contact points, releasing tension, strain, and fatigue. a.k.a Bio-Mechanics. Aquarian-Age Healing
HYDROTHERAPY - Originated by a Silesian farmer, Vincenz Priessnitz (1791-1851) and developed by Father Sebastian Kneipp (1821-97), who believed in the notion that water would dissolve and remove diseased matter from the body. Popular in Europe, it uses aerated baths, like Jacuzzis, with both warm and cold water. It claims to help with relaxation, pain relief, varicose veins, swollen ankles and wound healing. Skeptics point to its contribution to the death of an early believer - John Roebling, architect of the Brooklyn Bridge.
HYPNOTHERAPY - evolved from an Austrian physician, Franz Anton Mesmer (1734-1815). It is currently used in a variety of medical and dental environments, from helping people to lose weight, to stop smoking, reduce stress, relieve pain, anxiety, phobias, depression, low self-esteem, etc. It can include regression work or "progression," to visualize future positive outcomes and possibilities. Hypnosis involves a state of focused relaxation, when the subconscious mind is open to suggestions. The therapist facilitates communication between the right and left sides of the brain with the client in a state of consciousness somewhere between waking and sleeping. The client benefits the most when the desire to be hypnotizes is there, and he/she knows the environment is completely safe and peaceful. The client, though relaxed, is always in control. Some practitioners have their own private practices, while others use hypnotherapy in their already existing acupuncture, massage, psychotherapy, or nursing careers. |
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