Years ago now, I learned a bit about how to do ‘therapeutic touch’. It is a method of working with energy, without physically touching the human body, and it is now widely taught and used in nursing and palliative care. Since 1972, it has been taught in more than 80 colleges and approximately 90 countries, and there are now about 100,000 people who have learned how to do it in the US, Canada and around the world. It works, as scientific studies showed after people got over scoffing at it and decided to look for evidence. 

I did get to the point where I could feel where energy had ‘clumped’ and was able to smooth it out. Some of my subjects said they had never felt so relaxed before. But I never managed to connect to a tree, as others in the advanced level of training did, although I never worked at it very diligently. The ones who were successful said they could recognize ‘their’ tree – the one whose energy they had explored.