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This is known as and often involves spiritual or religious healing (faith healing), Reiki, psychic healing, intercessory prayer or therapeutic touch. Healers believe that they can act as a conduit for channeling energy to facilitate self-healing in the patient. Practitioners may scan the patient’s body with hands, usually without touching it. CAP has not seen evidence that healing has health benefits and claims should go no further than referring to spiritual or emotional healing (The International Reiki and Healing Centre, 15 August 2001).
See ‘Psychics, Spiritualists, Fortune Tellers, Astrologers and Clairvoyants’.Guidance on Health Therapies and Evidence QA (Sept 2011)
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