Very well said. I thought exactly the same about new-age spirituality.

There are many who put the thoughts into the driving seat, but as I say so often, they are merely at the effect of our Soul which has always created and will always create the reality it wants to experience. Whenever we say:" this is not the reality I want to experience" it means either that our thoughts are not in alignment at all with our Heart, or that the outer world hasn't yet started reflecting back our "new" inner sense of Beingness ( e.g when we are still in the process of a life shake-up).

This is also why I am not a fan of "How to" advice. Each one is unique and has his or her own means that they can find out. Of course, there are some general practises which help, like training one's breath. But when we simply follow somebody's instruction and make its success dependent on the teacher's certificate or popularity or what not, than we direct our power not internally but externally and give it away. It is all about the experience of progress through self-experimenting.

Whenever we look outside we will eventually get a 'No', whenever we look inside we eventually get a 'Yes'.