The Geraldine Brush Cancer Research Institute at Cal Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco conducted a double blind study of "distant healing" in a matched population with advanced AIDS. 6 months out, the "treated" population had acquired statistically fewer AIDS defining illnesses, had illness of lower severity, required fewer doctor visits and fewer hospitalizations.

There are an increasing number of validated objective studies affirming the effect of this process. It certainly can't hurt...and if it helps, isn't it a joy to be a participant in this human/spiritual process?