EFT stands for "Enough Foolish Talk"

Yesterday I was visiting a patient. Both he and his wife are wonderfully polite and nice people. They are quite affluent with a large beautiful brand new home. I found out that he is a retired executive with an obvious higher education. While I was doing an uncomfortable dressing procedure, his wife grabbed hold of his hand and started "tapping" in some key areas. She began to repeat the phrase "Even though this hurts like "hell", I completely love and accept myself". Over and over she repeated this with the sequence of finger tapping. I honestly felt a "shudder" down my spine. I knew in my heart that this was some sort of New Age therapy that was not something I wanted any involvement in. Upon enquiry, the wife told me that this was called EFT, which stands for Emotional Freedom Technique. She shared that it works by "crossing the meridian". I just nodded my head and smiled. She had learned the technique from a friend.
My heart felt sad for this couple who have lived a life of travel and prosperity. Having always lived by their own rules and means, they were turning to a "religion" of sorts that also caters to their own rules and means.
I checked out a web site on EFT and it is a technique that is full of "tapping" in key points much like acupuncture as well as repetition of affirmations. The phrases were much like the one this woman had used but of course they were altered according to the situation that one needs emotional freedom from. They instruct that even if you don't entirely believe the phrases, to repeat them anyway. Much like a chant I would say, but of course filled with more and more emptiness.
People are so desperately searching in the 21st Century life. There is such a need to fill that void in their life with something spiritual. My heart aches for those who seem to "have it all" when in all actuality they have "nothing". I often compare much of the New Age culture with a bag of candy floss. It may taste good and seems like it should be "filling" but it is really just a bunch of sugar, packaged to seem like something grand.
The world so urgently needs Jesus Christ, but many continue to turn to the things that puff up the "self" which leads to spiritual and even physical death.