This is a guest post from Jonathan Mark on Quantum-Touch: The Power to Heal

Developed by Richard Gordon, author of Your Healing Hands, Quantum-Touch offers a method that Dr. C. Norman Shealy, M.D. claims, "To be the first technique that may truly allow us all to become healers." The technique draws on what Gordon calls "vibration," and "entrainment," illustrating his claim with simple entrainment principals of physics.

I first came across QT a little over two years ago, and had been interested in hands-on-healing for several years before. The noticeable difference between QT and other popular healing programs was its lack of ritual, ceremony, and dogmatic explanations of healing phenomena. The taste it left in one's mouth was pleasant enough.

There is understandable frustration when an eager learner questions a healing practitioner about their craft, only to be given, "I just do it," as a response. QT seeks to answer this frustration, though somewhat awkwardly, by creating an approach to seemingly mundane things that can, at times, seem tedious. At the end of the video, one has to ask them self, "What exactly did I learn from this? Was some ultimate secret revealed to me?" Chances are there will be some disappointment.

The disappointment initially incurred was offset when, by practicing QT, I was able to develop my own understanding of healing phenomena, as I would guess most people would if they choose to invest in the QT program. The useful ideas discussed in the QT program included a notion of disconnectedness from the actual healing process that is (hopefully) taking place in the client. QT teaches to not attempt to command the state of health to overpower the state of illness, nor does it focus on extracting or otherwise "cleansing" the client of whatever kind of energy. The client is dependent on his own system of healing, and the best an assisting healer can do is give that system an energy boost. Assumably possible by matters of entrainment, the healer works to boost his own vibrations in an attempt to excite his client’s into a state of remarkable efficiency.

The emphasis on breathing techniques might, understandably, be a matter of comforting structure for the absolute beginner, but it would seem that their importance is limited to only a matter of comfort. Sessions yielding some of the greatest success, according to humble experience, were achieved when breathing was left to what was natural, and the attention was maintained entirely on the task at hand. Mindset, or perhaps more properly, the absence of certain thought patterns, seems to be what makes healing phenomena occur.

With all the garbage that is pushed through assembly lines in the New Age consumer market, Quantum-Touch offers an alternative that has its potential in its unorthodoxy. For the absolute beginner and the experienced practitioner alike, it offers some explanation of healing phenomena that are finally divorced from woo-woo ceremony and creepy dogma. Without as much gained as one might hope from the expensive DVD, perhaps the paperback is the best choice for the individual of casual interest.