Positives

• Hospice residents receiving healing touch and other complementary therapies reported feeling cared-for, with the burden of disease (physical, emotional, spiritual distress) seeming less and a renewed energy to participate in life University of Minnesota CSH.
  
  
• Touch interventions in adults have been shown in meta-analysis to reduce feelings of depression, anxiety, and physical pain — key symptom domains for Long COVID and ME/CFS patients Psychology Today.
  
  

Negatives

• One experienced meditator wrote they have “never found any chakra work done on me helpful at all .. neither is reiki or any other kind of spiritual healing Ive tried on the ME/CFS,” and another patient added that although the session was very relaxing, “it didn’t help any of my core ME symptoms” Phoenix Rising.
• Statistically significant improvements appear in only about half of energy-healing trials for chronic illness, and high-quality evidence demonstrating efficacy is lacking, with most studies hampered by small samples and biases PubMed.

Hurdles & Side Effects

• No reported adverse effects of healing touch make it low-risk to try; sessions cost $60-$120 per hour with credentialed practitioners and are generally not insurance-covered, though some integrative-medicine clinics and oncology centers include it as part of broader supportive care OAText.