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Touch For Health
WHAT IS TOUCH FOR HEALTH?
TOUCH FOR HEALTH is a practical guide to natural health using acupressure touch and massage.
This energy balancing of your meridian system helps you with your future,
to be able to accomplish your goals and relieve you of some of your fears of the future.
It will allow you to recover more rapidly, increase the number of peak performances,
or allow you more choices because of improved posture from being better balanced.
TFH is a discovery of how we have all been intellectually designed to fulfill our unique,
specific purpose which no one else in the world can fulfill as well as we can.
Each of us is precious and unique.
With TFH methods, you can get into harmony with what you yearn to have happen within your life,
and to see it manifest by being in balance and by having your posture improve so it can happen.
The goal is to treat the whole person, not the symptom; maintain health, not treat disease.
The ultimate responsibility for one's well-being must reside in the individual.
It is the ultimate objective of our lives to establish and maintain healthy growth
toward being well-balanced people capable of both self-sufficiency
and interdependent relationships.
Health is an active condition of being, of growth, development, and evolution.
Balancing: 1973 and Beyond
We see an unprecedented need for change in the way that we live and care for ourselves,
and an unprecedented opportunity for those of us in TFH/K to take a leadership role
in fulfilling human needs and effecting change in our lives.
Now that people from all walks of life --business, arts, science, religion, etc.-- and among all the healing disciplines-- medicine, chiropractic, faith healing, massage, psychology, etc.-- we are uniquely positioned
to contribute in all of these areas. With the current zeitgeist, or spirit of the time,
we are uniquely prepared to fulfill the desperately needed role of interface between
the health-care practitioner (whether reductionist, disease centered, or holistic, wellness oriented),
and personal responsibility, self awareness, and self-care.
TFH draws not only on over 30 years of development and integration of techniques in Kinesiology,
but thousands of years of philosophies and sciences of living well,
proven by what we feel is the truest and best means: direct and personal, subjective experience of a better life.
Our concepts of Wellness integrate the holistic worldview of the East, as well as the vitalistic tradition in the West
as espoused in the original concepts of naturopathy, chiropractic, and even Western scientific medicine.
Our beliefs are influenced b many religions tenets of faith,
including the Judeo-Christian world-view and the example of Jesus' healing.
Currently we find ourselves at a crossroads.
Much of the change and growth, branching out and diverging of paths has come full circle
to where all of the Kinesiologies, with their varied areas of emphasis, multiple techniques, concepts, and models,
recognize a commonality of core values, beliefs, and shared purpose
that allow us to call this vast array of people, ideas, programs, schools associations and institutions
all part of one body, the Touch for Health Synthesis.
And it is through this element of unity that we can take a cooperative approach to our efforts,
with mutual regard and respect, health and forthright discussion
and exchange of ideas and common purpose and vision for the future.
Touch for Health was created by John F. Thie, DC (1933-2005).
The first Manual was published in 1973 and launched a worldwide movement in a holistic approach to health
which teaches the restoring of our natural energies.
It is a practical guide to natural health using acupressure, touch and massage
to improve postural balance and reduce physical and mental pain and tension.
