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• Health is not simply the absence of sickness. (Hannah Green)
• Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: "We would be more alive if we did more of this," and, "Life would be more lovely if we did less of that." Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away. (Peter McWilliams)
• The secret to health in both mind and body, is not to mourn for the past, nor worry about the future... But to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly. (Buddha)
• When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. (Abraham Lincoln)
• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. (Mahatma Gandhi)

• National Center of Complimentary and Alternative Medicine. You can search on this site for both ongoing Clinical Trials as well as completed research. Enter your modality of interest. A useful 2007 study on this site entitled "The Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the United States" provides a good overview of the range of healing modalities that are available. Healing Touch is one of the many "Energy Healing" modalities cited in this article.
  
  
• Healing Touch Research. Read abstracts about completed Healing Touch studies, learn about currently funded studies, and access a list of recently published articles.
  
  
• The PBS broadcast entitled "The New Medicine" interviews doctors at Duke and Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine. The web site supporting this documentary is a great resource! From this web site you can:
  • play video clips from experts
  • create your own personalized "Health Planner"
  • enter your area of concern ("Health Interest" (things like arthritis, back pain, healthy aging)) and you are provided with links to Complementary and Alternative therapies that are often used for this situation.
  • order videos of the original PBS broadcast.
  The only forms of Energy Medicine I see listed on this site are Reiki, Therapeutic Touch, and Acupuncture. The primary physician at the Scripps Center for Integrative Medicine, Dr. Mimi Guarneri, was one of the keynotes at the 2004 Healing Touch International conference. Dr. Guarneri is a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner. She discusses her use of Healing Touch at the Scripps Institute in her book The Heart Speaks : A Cardiologist Reveals the Secret Language of Healing . Dr. Guarneri was on Good Morning America January 26, 2006, and an excerpt from her book was in the February 2006 issue of Reader's Digest.
  
  
• Debby Vajda, LCSW-C has a rich site packed with useful information and links to a broad range of energy and energy psychology modalities. Especially look at her 'Free Downloads', 'Instructional Tapes', 'Links', and 'Manuals' sections of her site for a wealth of available information to help you.
  
  
• Council for Healing: Research. The Council for Healing was convened by Daniel J. Benor, M.D. in June, 2000. Dr. Benor included representatives from diverse branches of the healing communities. Diane Wardell, President of Healing Touch International Board of Directors, represents the Healing Touch community on the Council. Dr. Benor's book, Spiritual Healing: Scientific Validation of A Healing Revolution (Healing Research, Volume 1), is a compilation of Healing Research.