Dolores Krieger - A Healers Journey to Intuitive Knowing: The Heart of Therapeutic Touch

With deepest gratitude on the part of the global Therapeutic Touch community to our teachers

Dora van Gelder Kunz
&
Dolores Krieger

(Dolores was fond of using the term D2 in reference to the two of them)

A HEALER'S JOURNEY TO INTUITIVE KNOWING

This work invites an awakening to the depth of our shared humanity; entices us to pay attention to subtle, as well as non-subtle, phenomena; and engages in some of Krieger's favorite phenomena, such as synchronicity, serendipity, and even miracles. Even though nursing is the origin of Therapeutic Touch and Krieger's beginning work, this text is not only for nurses. This work moves to embrace, invite, and include all healers in numerous disciplinesany and all energy lightworkers involved in concepts and practices of holism, wholeness, energy medicine, energy healing, nonphysical distant healing, and so on. This writing is guided by the energy of love and a conscious intentionality to serve as an agent of healingof wholeness. A great addition to any healer's library.

JEAN WATSON, PH.D., R.N., FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR OF THE WATSON CARING SCIENCE INSTITUTE

In this final offering from Dolores Krieger, her journey from discovery to deepening to actual wisdom is generously shared. A Healer's Journey to Intuitive Knowing is the distillation of more than five decades of exploration, practice, and teaching of Therapeutic Touch. Beyond method and technique, she traces the flow of healing back to its sourcecompassion and the ever responsive Inner Selfand speaks to the essence of healing and self-knowledge. Over time the great teachers like Dolores seem to grow in their simplicity. In this book she offers a guidance that begins with consciousness and ends with that same consciousness magnified by an intuitive knowing born from the compassionate commitment to heal. This is a necessary book for anyone drawn to healing and the deepening self-awareness it demands.

TIM BOYD, INTERNATIONAL PRESIDENT OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ADYAR

Dolores Krieger provides us with insights into the intricacies of energetic healing, which the general public often finds difficult to comprehend. In great detail and in layman's terms she manages to dissect the anatomy of a healer and of energetic healing in a way I have not come across before in my 25-year career.

TJITZE DE JONG, AUTHOR OFENERGETIC CELLULAR HEALING AND CANCER

It is amazing and encouraging that the founders of Therapeutic Touch (TT) successfully carved a path to work alongside mainstream medicine and managed to spread their network throughout America and beyond. Their many healing storiesaddressing physical, mental, and emotional issuessupport my own clinical research findings that professional standards of training ensure safe and highly effective holistic healing that can be delivered in less than half an hour. Dolores's book is a wonderful testament to the dedication of TT healers, whose fine work improves people's livesand, along the way, their own, too.

SANDY EDWARDS,AUTHOR OF SPIRITUAL HEALING IN HOSPITALS AND CLINICS

The emphasis on resonance, frequencies, and the practitioner's ability to go into a state of stability and regulation relates powerfully to some of the newer body-based healing modalities, such as Somatic Experiencing. The body-mind state of the practitioner is paramount in these practices, as it is here in this wonderful book. Dolores's Therapeutic Touch approach draws on elements of physical and subtle realities that empower the healing process that arises within the relationship of two peoplethe healer and the healed.

NANCY J. NAPIER, LMFT,AUTHOR OF SACRED PRACTICES FOR CONSCIOUS LIVING

When you center yourself in meditation you consciously experience wholenessyour undivided unity with everything that exists. You see yourself, as well as the people with whom you have relationships, as part of that immense wholeness. It is in this sense that we interact with one another most authentically. On the personal level we are always separated from one another by the barriers of the ego, but these barriers do not exist at that deeper level. When we are able to detach ourselves from personal interest, we can reach out to people in a much more enduring way.

DORA VAN GELDER KUNZ, THE PERSONAL AURA

The prime characteristics of energy are that it flows or is continuous as it moves through space, that its flow has a coherence or rhythm, and that is has the capacity to do work. Its flow has been described on a continuum from slow to fast, strong to weak, unimpeded to congested, tenuous to thick, or quiet to tumultuous, depending upon the situation. Its rhythm has been characterized as steady or irregular, in harmony or unharmonious, in sync or disorganized.

DOLORES KRIEGER, THERAPEUTIC TOUCH AS TRANSPERSONAL HEALING

We don't have energy fields.

We are energy fields.

MARTHA ROGERS, R.N., PH.D.,
NURSE HEALERS PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATES CONFERENCE, TORONTO, 1990

Acknowledgments

Nowhere would one know better that it takes a village than in the experience of bringing a manuscript into publication. Especially this one. Shortly before her death, our teacher and mentor, Dolores Krieger, appointed me editor of her final manuscript. She knew that I had a village behind meand most especially, most particularly, that I would be supported by Dr. Pat Cole and Sandy Matheny, who had been at her side for more than a decade, developing and administrating the annual gatherings of the TT Dialogues, and also as dear friends.

Pat, Sandy, and I came together to form a three-legged stool, as we referred to ourselves over the months of reading, rereading, conferring, writing, rewriting, and so on. I understand that a three-legged stool is the most stable structure on uneven ground, making it a good description of us and our process. For the three of usas we joined with the international village of Therapeutic Touch in grieving our lossthis process of editing was facilitating our own healing, allowing us to maintain and celebrate our connection with Dee through her thoughts and words. Truly, these months of healing took us across uneven ground. But together, we forged a steady path. This final product would not have happened without Pat and Sandy.

For many years it was the tradition in Therapeutic Touch that Dora and Dee taught at Invitational Healers programs at Camp Indralaya, Orcas Island, Washington every June, and every July they did the same at Pumpkin Hollow Farm, Craryville, New York. After Dora's death in 1999, Dee continued this practice. In 2009 she decided that her traveling days were over. We should have noticed that she declared she was not in retirement, but rather re-treadment, because in 2010 her next idea was to send out an invitation to members of the tribe with at least three-years' TT experience to come to Montana for a Dialogue on the Healing Moment. She told Sandy and Pat that she expected between six and eight people; it was a group of thirty who met that first year. Since then, over the decade there have been more than a hundred total attendees.

The Dialogues have produced the two studies included in this book, as well as the publication of