Disruption in the human electromagnetic field that is normally a continuous whole and is unique, dynamic, creative and nonlinear

• Anxiety
• Excessive stress
• Pain
• Unaddressed physical discomfort
• Unaddressed psychological discomfort

• Impaired health status
• Injury

• Psychological status, including anxiety, fatigue, depression, somatic complaints, and recent lifestyle changes (death of loved one, conflict in a relationship, or loss of job)
• Health status, including presence of disorder that's life-threatening or requires surgery
• Sensory status, including pain and disorders that may affect senses
• Spiritual status, including religious beliefs and affiliation; available support systems; and feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, anger, and withdrawal
• Caregiver's readiness to provide therapeutic healing, including education and training in therapeutic touch or similar treatment technique

• Blockage of the energy flow
• Congested energy field patterns
• Elevated energy field patterns
• Energy deficit of the energy flow
• Expression of the need to regain the experience of the whole
• Feeling disintegrated
• Feeling maladjusted
• Feeling unmotivated
• Low energy field patterns
• Low energy flow patterns
• Magnetic pull to an area of the energy field
• Pulsating to pounding frequency of the energy field patterns
• Pulsations sensed in the energy flow
• Rapid energy flow patterns
• Slow energy flow patterns
• Strong energy field patterns
• Strong energy flow patterns
• Temperature differentials of cold in the energy field
• Temperature differentials of cold in the energy flow
• Temperature differentials of heat in the energy field
• Temperature differentials of heat in the energy flow
• Unsynchronized rhythms in the energy field
• Unsynchronized rhythms in the energy flow

• Patient will feel increasingly relaxed as demonstrated by slower and deeper breathing, skin flushing in treated area, audible sighing, or verbal reports of feeling more relaxed.
• Patient will visualize images that relax him or her.
• Patient will report feeling less tension or pain.
• Patient will use self-healing techniques, such as meditation, guided imagery, yoga, and prayer.
• Patient will express increased sense of personal and spiritual well-being.

Suggested NOC Outcomes

• Implement measures to promote therapeutic healing. Place your hands 4 to 6 inches (10 to 15 cm) above patient's body. Pass your hands over entire skin surface. This technique helps you become attuned to patient's energy field, which is the flow of energy that surrounds a person's being. With experience and training in therapeutic touch or similar treatment, you can identify sensory cues to energy field disturbances, such as heat, cold, tingling, and an electric sensation.
• Try to gain patient's cooperation as you perform healing techniques, such as therapeutic touch, to enhance effectiveness of healing techniques and foster participation in spiritual aspects of care.
• Continue to treat patient using therapeutic healing techniques. One treatment rarely restores a full sense of inner well-being.
• Suggest that patient use self-healing techniques, such as meditation, guided imagery, yoga, and prayer, to encourage patient to participate in own care.
• Familiarize family with the benefits of healing or therapeutic touch in order for them to support its use after patient is discharged home.

Suggested NIC Interventions

• Patient shows evidence of relaxation, such as slower and deeper breathing, flushing in treated area, audible sighing, or verbal reports of feeling more relaxed.
• Patient reports experiencing relaxing visual images.
• Patient reports reduction in tension or pain.
• Patient uses self-healing techniques, such as meditation, guided imagery, yoga, and prayer.
• Patient reports an increased sense of well-being.

• Summary of patient's psychosocial status
• Patient's progress in learning techniques that enhance relaxation
• Patient's perceptions of benefits of healing and self-healing techniques
• Family members' reaction to the use of therapeutic touch
• Evaluations for expected outcomes

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• Peck, S., Corse, G., & Lu, D.-F. (2017). Case report: Energy field changes approaching and during the death experience. Integrative Medicine: A Clinician's Journal, 16(6), 36-42.
• Shields, D., Fuller, A., Resnicoff, M., Butcher, H. K., & Frisch, N. (2017). Human energy field: A concept analysis. Journal of Holistic Nursing, 35(4), 352-368.