Meditation, Law of attraction, Do They Work?

I have always been interested in the powers of the mind, like the way you should be able to be more in control of your life through meditation, the law of attraction and your ability to create physically what you create mentally etc.

These are in fact ideas worth looking into, because you can't just scoff and say this is all just wishful thinking. On the other hand when you try these things for the umpteenth time and see no positive results your confidence in them invariably seems to lose some intensity.

Like for example we have the book "Think and Grow Rich", there is supposed to be a hidden secret in it that will allow you to tap a secret law that will guide you without fail to material wealth. Well I've read this book about ten times and I still haven't found this secret maybe I'm just too dumb to find it.

But I have also tried meditation, I have seen no improvements in my life by doing this, I have tried to use the law of attraction again without results. There are other subjects of this sort, like for example astral travelling, I have read a lot about this yet even though I have followed different sets of instructions nothing has happened.

So I could say these subjects are nothing more than hoaxes, but are they? Perhaps I am just to hyper active to be able to get to the level where these things are of any use to me. Maybe I just don't have the mental stability to concentrate enough and the results therefore evade me.

Now I have had dreams that you could call lucid dreams, I really think in my dreams that what I am dreaming is true, but when I wake up I hardly remember what the dream was about, I just have the feeling that it was real. I do know for a fact that sometimes while I dream I can feel I am floating and actually go to places where I have never been before, but the funny thing is it seems like the power to remain afloat is limited because in the dream I try to remain floating like as if I am flapping my wings but eventually I just drop to the ground and then I awake.

But overall I think I will believe in the usefulness of meditation, astral travelling, law of attraction once I have experienced it, meditation of course doesn't need any proof you meditate and that is true but what I mean is it apparently doesn't do me any good.

Perhaps there are some Steemit members who have ways of having these things really take effect and could give me some ways to prove the truth of them. I would especially like to know what the secret of Think and Grow Rich is.