We call it impartation. Impartation is really a fancy way of saying, as we said earlier, that hands are for giving. Webster defines impartation in this way: to impart-to give or grant what one has by contact, association, or influence; to communicate or transmit.  

Just as the wires carry electricity to the designated destination, so hands bring the power and love of God into the circle of need. Impartation is most easily observed in the case of healing, but as we continue to study this doctrine of laying on of hands, we will find that it takes place in many spiritual works as well. The gift we give and the blessing we bestow through the laying on of hands is very real-as real as the God we serve.