Thank you so much, Carolyne, for your thoughtful and enlightening comment. I hope it finds many readers, and therefore we should let them know that you are a psychologist with decades of experience behind what you say.

To be upfront, I was a bit worried that you might find my article too critical of psychology, which wasn't my intention at all. So, I'm happy to read that it didn't rub you up the wrong way.

Anyway, I fully subscribe to the concept of a mind-body connection, and the examples that you present are absolutely within the realm of the plausible. As a decades-long Zen practitioner, I'm keenly aware of the benefit of mindfulness. My issues were with the science veneer with which Langer and colleagues spin the entire concept in a direction that the "evidence" they pretend to produce, does not support.

As far as mindfulness training is concerned, I found the books of Jon Kabat-Zinn rather accessible to the lay reader. I had given "Full Catastrophe Living" to my wife, and she has frequently been back-checking on certain chapters that resonate with her. But like you, I'm unable to "teach" or "coach" anybody on the subject. And it certainly is not a silver bullet, as you say.