I learned this technique many years ago and have used it both Offering and Receiving treatments.
If you Google Therapeutic Touch and click on Videos you will come up with many stories. It is worthwhile.
The Therapeutic Touch: How to Use Your Hands to Help Or to Heal
Book by Dolores Krieger
"Therapeutic touch is based on ancient healing practices. The goal of the technique is to help people relax, relieve their pain, and help them heal faster. Therapeutic touch is thought to promote healing through restoring harmony to a person's energy fields."