In working through ES I feel that the procedures recommended in the course are very logical. Meditating under a tree in the garden everyday and whole day will most unlikely get you delivered free groceries, exemption from bills, etc. It is the combination of actions and goals which will make you succeed. Of course, you need alignment... a dispersive person will waste energies and achieve very little.
The strength of ES is to put together a nice procedure on how to succeed in life all across. You need to have faith in your own actions, which need to be doable. French Claire's niece is doing ES through religion. I find this to turn out to be tricky because sooner or later there will be clashes with science and reality (eg why did the Pope, who is infallible by dogma, oblige Galileo to house arrest for the latter part of his life when the scientist make major discoveries in planetary science without worrying about God?).
