Relieve Strain (3.5e Power)

''A soothing mental susurrus fills the mind of your target as dissonant, throbbing mental agony burdens your own. Way to take one for the team.''

This power allows a psychic character to relieve the mental burdens of another creature, reducing the target's current Strain for an amount up to the psychic's character level (note: not manifester level!), and increasing their own strain by this same amount.

For example, if Brainologica the level 8 psion used this power on Wizardface the level 9 wizard when Wizardface had accrued 7 strain, Brainologica would reduce Wizardface's strain to 0 while increasing her own strain to 7. Keen.

If a creature wants to keep their strain for whatever bizarre reason, they are entitled to a will save and spell/power resistance to desperately cling to their reduced capacity to do their thing. A character with this power can technically use it on herself. It does what can be charitably referred to as "nothing."