Touch for Health® is a synthesis of ancient knowledge of the Chinese acupuncture meridians and techniques derived from chiropractic, naturopathy, osteopathy, and even person-centered counseling, including acupressure, a variety of touch reflexes, meridian tracing, nutrition, and other mind-body techniques for balancing the subtle energies while focusing on meaningful personal goals.

Touch for Health® has helped influence and enrich the lives of millions of people across the globe. It has been a major influence and contribution to the emerging field of Energy Kinesiology, Energy Psychology, and Energy Medicine worldwide. TFH has been incorporated into many professional healthcare practices from massage to sports medicine, to psychology, to Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Touch for Health remains part of the cutting edge of the future of health care.

Empowerment for Wellbeing

Touch for Health® was designed to empower every person to become active in the creation, maintenance, and restoration of their own health and well-being, and to allow families a system to enhance their self-care by reinforcing the concept of internal harmony from Traditional Chinese Medicine, and using postural balancing from chiropractic and Applied Kinesiology. It utilizes a person-centered approach that starts from the assumption that the human being will naturally come into a state of balance, harmony and health, through self­ awareness and congruence. Enabling a deeper awareness of one's aspirations, aligning thoughts, emotions and attitudes, and improving posture by rebalancing how muscles work together, are all aspects of TFH balances.

Touch for Health® techniques were designed to be simple and accessible enough for anyone to use in their lives right away. Both the concepts and techniques of TFH can be profoundly life-affirming and life-changing as self-care as a part of a holistic wellness personal-development model, rather than in the disease-treatment model.

Touch for Health® Begins Inspiring the World

Dr. John F. Thie, a chiropractor from Pasadena, California, developed Touch for Health® (TFH) Kinesiology in the early 1970’s for patient education and self-care. Touch for Health Kinesiology® has its roots in the work of Detroit chiropractor, George Goodheart. John Thie, DC, was one of the early promoters of Goodheart's work.” He was also the founding chairman of Goodheart's International College of Applied Kinesiology (ICAK) and had the vision of sharing this information with the wider population so they could learn to help themselves.

Hannu, A. (2023, August 1). History of Touch for Health Holistic Healing | TFHKA. Touch for Health Kinesiology Association. https://touchforhealth.us/history-touch-for-health/.