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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 673024" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>There is a theory that attention heals, too. That if we sit, those who are our patients feel we have attended more fully. They feel seen. </p><p></p><p>That if we have established a relationship of trust and add touch, our patients feel loved because they feel accepted, and because we all crave touch <em>and people who are sick, and they elderly, do not receive it.</em> </p><p></p><p>The touch of a professional care giver can leave us worse than never having been touched, at all.</p><p></p><p>Finally, there was research done on healing touch (not Healing Touch, which doesn't involve actual touching), but the healing that can flow, one to another, from trust and actual, physical touch. So, Hospice patients were lightly massaged, sacrum to cervical vertebrae, for a period of I forgot how many minutes. Not even massage deep enough to stimulate muscle groups or unlock toxins. Just the gentle, repetitious stroking of fingertips, bottom to top. Those patients experienced their pain differently. There was still pain, for them, but it was experienced differently. It was not seen as sent to hurt them as a judgment, so much as nothing more than the effects of the disease process their bodies were undergoing.</p><p></p><p>I did a paper on that research, and conducted a mini-research of my own. </p><p></p><p>I forgot the other thing I was going to tell you.</p><p></p><p>But: Pain is colored and coded by our perceptions of why. If we have rotten memories from childhood or adult abuse, we will perceive it as punishment and ourselves as meriting punishment. Touch ~ the simple, unskilled, gentle touch of someone we trust, can change those perceptions.</p><p></p><p>I need to go and start volunteering again, you guys.</p><p></p><p>I love that stuff.</p><p></p><p>It heals the person doing the touching, too.</p><p></p><p>It's so real.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 673024, member: 17461"] There is a theory that attention heals, too. That if we sit, those who are our patients feel we have attended more fully. They feel seen. That if we have established a relationship of trust and add touch, our patients feel loved because they feel accepted, and because we all crave touch [I]and people who are sick, and they elderly, do not receive it.[/I] The touch of a professional care giver can leave us worse than never having been touched, at all. Finally, there was research done on healing touch (not Healing Touch, which doesn't involve actual touching), but the healing that can flow, one to another, from trust and actual, physical touch. So, Hospice patients were lightly massaged, sacrum to cervical vertebrae, for a period of I forgot how many minutes. Not even massage deep enough to stimulate muscle groups or unlock toxins. Just the gentle, repetitious stroking of fingertips, bottom to top. Those patients experienced their pain differently. There was still pain, for them, but it was experienced differently. It was not seen as sent to hurt them as a judgment, so much as nothing more than the effects of the disease process their bodies were undergoing. I did a paper on that research, and conducted a mini-research of my own. I forgot the other thing I was going to tell you. But: Pain is colored and coded by our perceptions of why. If we have rotten memories from childhood or adult abuse, we will perceive it as punishment and ourselves as meriting punishment. Touch ~ the simple, unskilled, gentle touch of someone we trust, can change those perceptions. I need to go and start volunteering again, you guys. I love that stuff. It heals the person doing the touching, too. It's so real. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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