The book

The Touch

Healing Miracles and Methods — Doug Heyes’s 2016 book about injury, recovery, compassionate attention and the principles he called RAM Healing.

A luminous hand above river ripples and an unbranded book where Central Valley water meets rainforest foliage
Book cover for The Touch: Healing Miracles and Methods by Doug Heyes
The Touch · 2016

By Doug Heyes

The Touch: Healing Miracles and Methods

Published in 2016, The Touch brings together Douglas’s personal account of injury and recovery with a philosophy of attention, presence and the inner resources people carry into moments of change.

The story around the book

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Conversations, appearances and archive recordings connected to The Touch and the ideas behind it.

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