The books came with some "bonus" materials that sort of pushes something called "EFT Tapping" as some sort of emotional control meditation as a way to help control emotions and make decisions from a place of logic and reason. This supposedly has shown good benefits for PTSD patients. Anyone ever hear of this and/or tried it?
My MIL is a practitioner of EFT and apparently teaches it to others. She wanted my W to do it. As far as I recall it has two aspects to it, one is the tapping (physically tapping on acupuncture reflex points), along with a talking part (which is a positive reinforcement or build yourself up/throw off negatives type thing). I recall looking into it at the time (over two years ago now, so I'm a bit vague on the specifics) and having concerns as to the lack of science behind it and also further concerns stemming from our Christian beliefs.
Our S15 is young but very sharp. I'm sure MIL tried to teach it to him as well. He just poured scorn over it (privately, to me). Further, S15 has mild autism and sees a child psychologist regularly. I asked her about EFT and she told me it has no basis and no merit beyond a possible placebo effect. She thought it was dangerous as people would use it instead of real methods of dealing with their problems, with varying consequences (not getting real help, deciding their problems relate to something else and going off track, deciding the situation is incapable of improvement, etc).
Wikipedia has an entry on it here: EFT which states it is generally considered pseudoscientific, with no real merit.
MIL also gave my W a book written by a lady who had been molested as a child and then had cervical cancer in later life. The lady decided the two events were connected (her mental anguish focusing on that part of her body creating the disease in that area). She therefore wrote a book explaining how every emotional and mental anguish manifests as physical sickness. My W was suffering from a cold (it was winter!) and showed me that the book said it was because I was making her miserable! Good luck to me trying to counter that one!
