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The Transparent Life: 30 Proven Ways to Live Your Best

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"Peace assures you that you are loved and never alone - that everything is all right just the way it is. Fear is robbing you of enjoying your moments. It is not how many breaths you take in your lifetime that matters; it is how many moments take your breath away. You can choose peace with every breath." ~ pg. 137

"The Transparent Life" is a tiny book about what Naomi Judd has learned from her own life experience. This book is her successful attempt to pass along valuable life lessons.

In about an hour you can read her thoughts on forgiveness, intuition, self-esteem, affirmations, fear and meditation. Naomi Judd's writing is richly enhanced with quotes from the bible and from wise teachers.

The thought that stands out above all the others is how we all want peace of mind. This book brings some solace and a place for reflection in a troubled world.

~The Rebecca Review

This book is a very nice, inspirational book to keep by the table or bedside. Well-designed, simply written, easy-to-read little vignettes of advice, inspirations, and life's lessons by Naomi Judd. I liked this book so much that I purchased multiple copies as gifts for friends. This book is a little gem for anyone wanting a quick dose of common-sense, motivation, or inspiration.

In The Transparent Life, Naomi Judd combines devotion-style writing, questions, personal notes, and Scripture to express a mind, body and spiritual connection. Knowing many do not understand why their life is going in the direction that it is, she provides her insight and understanding to the hurting.

Naomi has fully recovered from hepatitis C and credits her recovery, alongside her caring medical doctors, to making smarter life choices and greater peace of mind. As she was delving into understanding the being as a whole with emotions, lifestyle needs, and spiritual needs, she writes, "I learned how our lifestyles can cause all sorts of mental distress and disease...I was shocked to discover that 85 percent of all illnesses are related to stress." She also writes that "The World Health Organization has proclaimed stress to be the number one global epidemic."

If you are struggling with a health or other issue, this book may help you gain some understanding of what you can do to alleviate some of the stress and gain peace of mind. Although the book contains Scripture and clearly Naomi is a Christian, I thought a more effective connection would have been made between self and God. In a chapter titled "Quiet Rest Time with God," she spoke of meditation, creating a sense of self-mastery and listening to your inner witness, but passed over how God or the Holy Spirit may work in that quiet time. The strength of this book lies in her personal experiences and the questions she poses, but the greater weakness may be in leaving you with your eyes more on yourself and less on God. - Sheri Carlstrom, Christian Book Previews.com