I was prepared to take EFT seriously until I read:-

(1) time-honored Eastern discoveries that have been around for over 5,000 years and (2) Albert Einstein, who told us back in the 1920's that everything (including our bodies) is composed of energy

*cough* Bullshit! *cough*

I don't have any idea whether it works or not - I've never tried, so I can't say. As a sceptic, I remain to be convinced until evidence is presented. If it works for Sue, it might work for you.

However, I *can* say that the Einsteinian concept that matter can be regarded as frozen energy has no relevance to tapping someone on areas of the body. E=mc^2 is very clear that destroying matter releases vast amounts of energy, and equally that it would take vast amounts of energy to create matter. Tapping with fingers simply cannot do this. The only other thing you can do is store energy in a different form, and tapping parts of the body ain't going to do that either. So this part of the reasoning is pure bullshit.

It's about now that many people say "ah, but it's spiritual energy". OK, so since when did Einstein study spiritual energy? And since when did anyone show that spiritual energy even exists? Sorry, but no.

Similarly the "5000-year-old discoveries of the East" are a staple diet of many pseudo-scientific theories, of which the overwhelming majority are scams. Simply providing evidence that it's 5000 years old would be difficult enough! never mind proving that it works. As far as this goes, I'd like to point out that powdered rhino horn for erectile problems is also a "time-honored Eastern discovery".

Reading the case studies, I found the "fear of flying" one. In it, the EFT practitioner goes over every possible element of the flying experience with the sufferer, getting them to visualise it before it happens. Excuse me, but isn't this *exactly* what every other phobia treatment does?

Graham.