title: Pandimensional field pattern changes in healers and healees: experiencing therapeutic touch.
abstract: Rogers's Science of Unitary Human Beings framed this study of pandimensional pattern changes in healers and healees paired for an 8-week series of Therapeutic Touch (TT) sessions. Comparison of healee patterns before and after 141 TT sessions supported the hypotheses that healees would manifest decreased pulse and blood pressure, and reduced pain and stress (p < .05). Duration of TT sessions was not preset but determined by healers according to energy cues. TT time was not related to pattern changes, consistent with the clinical practice of TT and the atemporal nature of Rogers's conceptual framework. Healers and healees showed parallel changes after the TT series. Participants manifested greater spirituality (p <.05). Although increases in three of the four dimensions of power were significant (p <.05), changes in power measured as a whole were not. Contrary to expectations, manifestations of diversity were decreased in healers and healees.
authors.affiliation: University of Southern Maine College of Nursing and Health Professions, USA.
authors.forename: Dorothy Woods
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: John P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Broida
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001676:Biofeedback, Psychology; D001794:Blood Pressure; D004645:Empathy; D005260:Female; D006694:Holistic Health; D006801:Humans; D008281:Maine; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D059408:Pain Management; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011674:Pulse; D029181:Spirituality; D019124:Therapeutic Touch; D016896:Treatment Outcome