Joy touch is a form of meditative healing that can help people in various different ways. It can help people feel good, quit smoking, lose weight, overcome fears of the dentist, get weaned off drugs, relax, face paranoia, become relaxed with rage and even eliminate life threatening diseases.

The technique consists of patients meditating with their ‘third eye’ in the middle of the forehead and humming ‘ohm’. Joy touch deals with the theory that patients have a line connecting their foreheads to the center of the brain and therefore the patients must imagine this line whilst meditating. The final step is to cleanse the brain by imagining you are cleaning it gently, cleansing the brain of disease.

Teachers exist that give sessions to patients who want to learn about their higher forms of consciousness. The teachers claim to be different to psychologists or psychotherapists in the sense that they do not deal with energy, chi or auras, but just positive thinking.

The septum pellucidum is used like a joystick for the hypothalamus, which is where the brain feels pleasure. The septum pellucidum has nerve connections to the hypothalamus and stimulates it directly. This stimulating effect can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours and if this effect is happening everyday, slowly the diseases will start to filter away.

Critics argue that one can stimulate the hypothalamus anyway giving direct pleasure, but that does not signify that diseases may be eliminated because of this sensation. Caution must be taken with this type of treatment, as it should not be done at home. Joy touch must be undertaken in controlled conditions with a teacher present. Trying it at home alone may result in the opposite effect and one may find oneself in a state of anger or rage.

Such is the skepticism that is associated with this treatment that it is largely ignored by the mainstream medical world and therefore comes under the umbrella of alternative medicine. Positive thinking can have positive effects, but there is no scientific knowledge or evidence to back this type of treatment to say that it is beneficial in a medical sense to patients. All the same, joy touch is becoming more and more popular as people nowadays seek alternative methods for healing, especially in the western world where people are so used to the traditional scientific medical methods used by doctors.