Over the last few years, I have ploughed through shelves of these books, some containing reasonable sounding advice or tricks for obtaining success or improved results in areas of life.
Some claim to have been channelled from spirits, and many overlap with similar pieces of advice.
Examples range from A course in miracles to Emmanuel's books, and A handbook for light workers.

My question is: Has anyone here done something recommended in one of these type of books and it worked?

I love the thrust of many of these books, ie love, forgiveness, we are all one etc., but life out there seems to feel just the same and act the same however many new attitudes I have attempted to cultivate. The one thing that does work sometimes is meditation, but facing adversity with direct new approaches as advised by all such books appears to have left me in the same place I was when I begun reading them. Is it just me?