Can people send me Qi or heal me from a distance?
Some Qigong masters claim this skill. Some people claim to have been healed this way. There are many reports of remote intention (such as prayer) helping people. There is also much evidence of people being helped simply by knowing that others are sending their thoughts, love, and good energy. This is part of the placebo effect, which is quite real and is becoming a subfield of study in neuroscience. A popular press article can be found in Parade magazine: Why Prayer Could Be Good Medicine, Diane Hales, March 23, 2003: 4:5. For more scientific information on placebos, start with “Pain and the Placebo – what we have learned”, Hoffman, Harrington, and Fields, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, volume 48, no 2 (spring 2005): 248-65. John Hopkins University Press. Also, an entirely new field of medicine has been created in the last twenty five years to address the relationship between thoughts, emotions, and health: psychoneuroimmunolgy. This field studies the n-way interrelationship bet
