To me, energy healing techniques, like reiki and johrei, are magic and psychism. The distinction I make between the Baha'i Faith and magic (or psychism) is that, in the Baha'i Faith, one prays for healing (if it is God's Will) and consults persons who have studied "a scientific system of medicine." However, in magic, one claims to mentally and/or physically channel the healing power directly.

In terms of this paragraph from _Some Answered Questions_:

"The other kind of healing without medicine is through the magnetic force which acts from one body on another and becomes the cause of cure. This force also has only a slight effect. Sometimes one can benefit a sick person by placing one's hand upon his head or upon his heart. Why? Because of the effect of the magnetism, and of the mental impression made upon the sick person, which causes the disease to vanish. But this effect is also very slight and weak."

I might very well be wrong, but my reading of what He said is that the "magnetic force" between the bodies is more like giving physical comfort, much as I would put my hand on my mother's head and stroke it while she was in the hospital and close to her own death. I don't think He was referring to something magical, like reiki or johrei. We can all, it seems to me, relate to what He said. When we are suffering, physical connections (i.e., "magnetism") can create a favorable "mental impression."

It seems to me that, generally speaking, `Abdu'l-Baha was, including in His discussion of what may be close to psychosomatic healing and the "contagion of health" referring more to the direction or purpose of scientific research, not that His statements should be taken as scientific propositions or hypotheses.