Transformative Nature of Therapeutic Touch® as Compassion Meditation: Sculpting From Within.

Abstract

Holistic nurses intentionally respond to the suffering of others with compassion. This article presents knowledge relevant to the Universal force of compassion from three knowledge sources: (a) neuroscience, (b) the chakra system by clairvoyants, and (c) nursing theorists Watson, Newman, and Smith. In the past two decades an increase in research on compassion has yielded information that has implications for fostering self-development, transformation, and healing. Therapeutic Touch^® (TT), a compassion-based holistic human energy field therapy, is used as a practice exemplar.