RE: Does The Secret Really Work? A Guide to the Law of Attraction.
There is a lot missing from this book. I can't remember which ones were included but one of the main challenges of making the LoA work is cleaning out all the junk, all the limiting beliefs that we grow up with. You attract what you fear just as much as you attract what you desire and there are all kinds of false beliefs and fear lying around the subconscious. A common misconception is that you should avoid negative thoughts, but I find that the need to avoid these thoughts is proof that you still hold fear about them, and that the fear should be faced by exploring those thoughts and recognizing that nothing is inherently BAD, we just define certain things as bad. By doing this we can soften the fear, the way a massage will help to soften a knot and it can take care of itself it will leave your experience because you don't desire it and you don't fear it.
Sorry this is just some rambling, I am going to organize these thoughts into a post later this week.
You are absolutely right. Before applying the LoA in our lives, we should empty the vessel that the mind is. Only then can we truly focus on things that we want without any fear whatsoever. And only then we can be the masters of our own lives. :)