The Touch for Health System is a practical guide to natural health that improves postural balance, and reduces physical and mental pain and tension. It is an approach to restoring natural energies that combines ancient Chinese energy therapies with recent Western developments in kinesiology. A very practical tool, Touch for Health utilizes acupressure and massage to improve health and wellness, increasing “chi”, or life energy.

The Touch for Health System encompasses the vitalistic world-view that humans’ natural birthright is to be able to use touch to activate their own bodies’ natural recuperative powers or energy. These natural recuperative powers are enhanced or inhibited by daily activities. In response to those activities, changes occur within muscles and skin. The way we feel and function is affected as we become more, or less, vulnerable to injury and disease according to the balance of our energy. We work with the power of the intelligently designed human body to come into harmonious balance as a whole person.

Everyone needs to restore their energy and muscular balance daily to overcome the normal stress of gravity on the body causing shrinkage. Yes, we shrink.

Think about when you get into an automobile after a great night’s rest, feeling really good about starting out the day’s activities. You adjust the rear view mirror and drive off. You arrive at your office and things start to go less than desirably. People around you seem to press your emotional buttons and you need to control yourself physically and emotionally. The food you have for lunch isn’t well-prepared and you have a physically tiring job to do in the afternoon. Then, when you get into your car, you look into the mirror and it needs to be readjusted. It seems like somehow it raised itself up. You have shrunk. The average person is one inch taller in the morning than in the late evening. This physical constriction causes fatigue, a sense that our physical parts are somehow foreign to us, and diminishes self-esteem. This condition develops day by day, no matter what the age of the affected person. By the end of each day we are all shorter than when we awoke after a good night’s rest - and if we don’t manage to get a good night’s rest, the effect can be cumulative. Do you know any 80-year-old who isn’t shorter than when he or she was younger?

Maintaining your height and flexibility through the Touch For Health System will give you better health and balance, and will help to minimize the shrinking process. Using Touch for Health daily can help reverse the shrinking process by relieving chronic muscular tension in the body, allowing your body to relax and expand. By using this system, you can help yourself and others have peak performances more often.

Anyone can learn the Touch For Health System. It can be used at home, in the office, or the grocery store. Nurses and massage therapist can teach it to their clients to enhance their healing process. Continuing Education Units (CEU’s) are available for licensed practitioners.

For more info and class schedules:
Contact: Mary Moore, Cassville, MO.
Phone: 417-847-4134
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1Information taken from Dr. John Thie’s article in Massage Magazine Jan/Feb 1997