Caleo
I am healthily sceptical and was so when an inexplicable event with one alternative therapist took place. I'll not tell what it was as the story should be in the ghost thread, although the event was not a ghost but otherwise decidedly paranormal.
Like you, I am sceptical. However some years ago I had hurt my shoulder/collar bone quite badly when I slipped in the kitchen and dived(?) headfirst into the edge of an open door.
I was at a parish function a little while later and saw a parishioner holding her hand on our rector’s wife bandaged ankle which she was resting on a footstool. Being curious I asked what was going on. “Oh I’m a healer” was the reply, 
So I admitted my scepticism but told her about my shoulder and she offered her help, laying her hand on the area which hurt. Her hand felt incredibly hot - unnaturally so - and she left it there several minutes.
Now I do not believe in this mumbo jumbo and it was certainly not autosuggestion, but by the next morning the pain had gone and never returned.
