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Spirituality Articles by Linda Lee Smith
 

 Restoring Healing in Christianity--A Vision Worth Pursuing!

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The Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry program (HTSM) is education that provides you the tools to do healing ministry--prayer, hands-on healing and anointing with healing oils. This spiritual healing education has spread nationally and internationally to those who want to learn hands-on healing from a Judeo-Christian perspective.

 

The deeper roots go back to prayer, the laying-on of hands and anointing with oil modeled by Jesus as a major part of his healing ministry. Healing actually fell out of Christianity over 500 years ago but is beginning to be looked at anew as many people turn to complementary forms of healthcare.

 

Who can benefit from your learning to be an instrument of healing? Family, friends, neighbors, fellow church members, children, teenagers, adults, the elderly, those in hospitals, hospices, nursing homes, your community and not least of all, yourself. 

 

Like the work of the early apostles and disciples, Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry is spreading to churches, hospitals, hospices, massage schools, and retreat centers throughout the U.S. The program’s unique contribution is to frame prayer, energetic healing and anointing with essential oils within a Christian tradition and to teach it in churches and spiritual settings of all denominations.


Our vision is to help restore healing to Christianity and to the world.

 

 Spiritual Healing Courses Being Offered Around the Country

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Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry programs are developing in churches of many Christian denominations throughout the United States. these churches are discovering the healing ministry of Jesus through parish nursing programs, HTSM healing clinics sponsored by the churches, or by healing incorporated into the ministry  or sacramental life of the church. Here is a sample of churches offering programs based on Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry:

Trinity Episcopal Church, Iowa City, IA; St. John in the Wilderness Episcopal Church, White Bear Lake, MN; First United Methodist Church, Monmouth, IL; United Methodist Church, Anna, IL; Our Saviour's Lutheran Church, Arlington Heights, IL; Unity Church of Cedar Rapids, IA; St. Lucas Lutheran Church, Toledo, OH;  Arbor Acres Retirement Community, Winton-Salem, NC; and many more. 

 

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'He sent them out to proclaim the kingdom of God, and to Heal.' –Luke 9:2

 Become Nationally Certified in Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry

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The Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry Program has become an approved educational program by the Certification Board of Healing Touch. A sub-certification board has been established with Debra Reis RN, MSN, HNC, CHTP/I, HTSM-CP/I, CCA appointed as Chairperson and Margaret Leslie MS, CHTP/I, LMT, HTSM-CP/I, CCA as Vice-Chairperson. A reveiw committee of certified Healing Touch Spiritual Minstry practitioners was selected and are now in place. The certification review board answers directly to the Healing Touch Certification board.

There are 4 submission periods for applications to be considered for certification in Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry: February 1, May 1, August 1 and November 1. Please click course information to the left and then click Certification Information for more details.

 

 What Can HTSM Certification Mean for You?

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Becoming a certified Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry Practitioner will enable you to help others in their quest to reduce stress, manage pain, and improve their quality of life. Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry is not about "curing" but about helping others to recognize the Divine source of healing in their lives.

When you become certified in a field, you are telling the world that you have successfully completed a course of study and are now ready to share your knowledge and expertise to help others find balance in their lives. As certified practitioners, we do not diagnose or prescribe for anyone. Rather, we come from an ethical place of kindness and compassion for those who are seeking wholeness in their lives.

A national certification in Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry may become in the future, the first step in educational reuirements to practice this healing work in churches, educational institutions or healthcare facilities. Become one of the first to receive your certification and prepare to see your credential honored and recognized by employers.

 

 Practitioner Liability Insurance Now Available

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Students in the Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry program can now have the opportunity to purchase practitioner liability insurance through the Healing Touch Program. Both the work of HTSM and aromatherapy are covered services. To be eligible for this great offer, HTSM students must have completed 101 through 105 courses and be a member of the Healing Touch Professional Association.  This is the most affordable liability insurance anywhere. To downlad a copy of the pdf application, click here: http://budurl.com/genliabilityins

 

 Spiritual Healing --How Can We Recover It in Our Churches Today?

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If we look closely at the ministry of the Early Christians we find they continued the work that Jesus had taught them. That is, when anyone was sick, they prayed, laid on hands and anointed with healing oil all who were sick in body and mind-and they were healed. There are lessons in that for us today if we are to recover the work of Christian healing. Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry starts with the Laying-On of Hands and has the goal of helping churches reclaim healing as the work of the church. When we combine this with prayer and with anointing we put the person is the best light for healing to occur whether it is physical, mental, emotional or spiritual healing.

Prayer, touching and anointing became common practice among the early Christian healers. But what exactly is happening when we extend our hands in faith to heal others? And what happens when we use a therapeutic or medicinal grade essential oil on our hands as we touch one another in faith? The healing touch from our hands is enhanced through the healing of the oils. Are we the souce of this healing? God is the source of all healing--we are but the instruments and the oils enhance the healing itself.

 

  

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New Powerpoint Introductory Programs Are Here!

spiritual healingAt Last! There is an Introductory Package to introduce audiences to: Prayer, Hands-On Healing and Anointing with Oil. The Healing Touch Spiritual Ministry program presents two powerful presentations to help you present healing work to your church, religious setting, hospital or hospice. They are: Prayer, Hands-On Healing and Anointing in the Christian Community; and Anointing in the Christian Community. Order yours today. Each program is $100 and comes with a CD presentation, Presenter Script and a set of Participant Handouts. Buy both programs and save! Complete package is on sale fdor $75.

 

 Additional Resources

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The Institute of Spiritual Healing & Aromatherapy has identified some helpful resources for our students.

Marilee Tolen RN, BSN, HNC, CHTP/I is an expert in Marketing your healing and aromatherapy practices. She offers a 4 week marketing seminar which I highly recommend.

Do you have something valuable you want to share with the world and
make money from it at the same time? Join Marilee Tolen's Intro to
Internet Marketing. Tele-Seminars to teach you how to turn the "Internet into Income"!

For information, click on: 

http://www.kickstartcart.com/app/aftrack.asp?afid=672320

Marilee Tolen is also the author of a new ebook: 8 Steps to Kick Start Your Practice.

Kick start your holistically oriented practice!  If you've got a massage, healing, or essential
oils practice in the works or starting - this is the book for you!