> just the psychological effect of knowing that there are people who care “You don’t have to be thinking anything,” one master said. “You are just there to lov

> just the psychological effect of knowing that there are people who care “You don’t have to be thinking anything,” one master said. “You are just there to love them.” Wow, no kidding. If the practitioners, through practice (and perhaps self-selection), manage to produce that feeling at will, and if the patient picks up on this... Imagine that a competent, trusted person loves you and is laying hands on you in a kindly way to heal you. That has to speak deeply to evolved instinct; if there are ways that the patient's emotion produces hormones or whatever to affect the body, this seems like a powerful way to affect the emotions.