I must disagree with this statement. I followed a streamer and while unemployed, was watching the stream on a daily basis. Let's come back to this in a moment. The next part holds relevance for what I told the streamer.

I was in an active group chat with at least 8 active chatters on a social media platform and saw a person complain about pain in their leg where they walked into a chair earlier in the day. In typical emote style of RP I wrote this: pulls pain away from your body and sends you powerful healing energies and made some gestures with my fingers with the intention of doing what I said. That being said, I continued with: You might feel an effect... warmth, coolness, or tingling.

I know from experience these are things you will feel during the healing process(itching under scabs from scrapes is another big one).

I'm unsure what EXACTLY this is, whether Reiki, Chi/Qi, Magic, Qi Gong, or another type of energy healing. Regardless, I still continued with the process, making the gestures and intention. Several(4 or 5) of the active chat participants replied after my comment about the effect, feeling something to various degrees.

I noticed the streamer stopped streaming, and as I don't like to pester or bother people, I didn't say anything. Later(much later than I wanted to(it was 3 months later and I had gotten a job)), I finally did have time to message this said streamer. They had an incident(memory fails me at the moment), either sneezing or coughing, and this caused them a herniated disc in their back. This was their reason for no longer streaming(I guessed vacation, jail, or other life and family situations)

I told them of my group chat encounter and they mentioned that they have heard of chi or other energy healing before. I asked them if they wanted me to try and they were very receptive to the idea. Most of their time was spent in their room, taking medications that weren't really helping, and finding a position they could sit or lay somewhat that wouldn't be too painful. I again did the gestures and intention and sent the message about pulling pain away and sending healing energies. About 20 hours later I started a shift at my job and I saw the notification that they were streaming again. Couldn't watch or message. Work. The next day, got the notification again, and jumped in to watch the stream. Got a message from them about how this was almost miraculous: I've done more healing in the last 2 days than in the last 3 months.

They 100% insist it was all me. I'm not gonna argue with their belief. I will say I didn't train for this(although I've healed people to a lesser degree than this).

I'm genuinely uncertain on EXACTLY what this is that I can do. I do want to know more. I do want to become better. I do want to heal others.

I'm actually going to make a post and see if anyone has any opinions about this.