Your Life in Rhythm: Less Stress, More Peace, Less Frustraion, More Fulfillment, Less Discouragement, More Hope

After trying for years to lead a "balanced life", it was so refreshing to finally find a book that debunks the balance theory. Bruce Miller explains, in easily understandable terms, that our lives will be much happier if we accept their natural rhythms and learn to embrace them. I found his exercises to be very useful, and the real-life examples throughout the book made it more relatable. I am already beginning to feel less stressed as a result of putting Miller's suggestions to use in my life.

The subtitle of this book says: "Less stress, more Peace Less frustration, more Fulfillment Less discouragement, more Hope" and that's exactly what this book is about. It's about living in sync with our surroundings and world and making your life much less complicated and stressful. This book helps you understand that being able to manage life, your marriage, children, jobs, travel, etc is next thing to impossible. Learning to understand how God created the world to work and learning to work with it and not against it will help you get through the stress of everyday life. While this book definitely is Christian in genre, everyone will benefit from what Miller talks about in his book. This isn't some new age mysticism, but scientific fact. In the book Miller states: "We live in a large ecosystem that moves rhythmically in seasons, tides, currents and seasons. We can fight them or follow them. When we try to live as if natural cycles did not exist, as if all time progressed in a uniform, linear fashion, we frustrate ourselves and increase our stress." This book will help you to realize your limit points, help you learn to look forward in life instead of to the past, and help restore harmony to your busy life. Miller encourages us, and helps us learn, to enjoy the different seasons of our lives. Don't let the unpredictability of life to cause undue stress, learn to be flexible and flow with the changes instead of fighting against them. This book is an important read for anyone who has stress in their life, regardless of the source, to help them learn to live a more balanced, healthy andharmonious life.

Bruce's book is full of tangible and practical advice for living at the stressful pace we all experience daily. He provides a new way of viewing your life that allows you to put everything into perspective and release many of the expectations and stresses that constantly weigh us down. I would recommend this book for anyone who has ever felt stress due to the pressures of work, family or just life. Approaching your responsibilities, obligations and goals with Bruce's rhythm strategies will lead you to a more peaceful, productive and stress free life from the moment you apply them. This has been true for me personally as I have been able to apply the concepts of rhythm to my upcoming graduation, move to a new apartment and wedding. By approaching these events with rhythm strategies I have been able to reduce my stress levels and enjoy myself more during the remainder of my current stage in life. This book definitely deserves a 5-star rating.

This book, although written by a Christian pastor, is accessible to anyone no matter what their background or beliefs. The author offers fresh insights and very practical advice about how to celebrate each unique season of our lives, seize opportunities, and follow natural rhythms in order to live fullfilled lives with less stress, busyness, guilt, and burn-out. It is one of the few books that I have read that make me truly excited about the life-stage I am in, not pining for the past or fantasizing about the future. I give it an enthusiastic 5 stars, wish I could give it more, and I will definitely be recommending it to others.

Picked up this book hoping to find new solutions for managing my marriage and family-life with my very time consuming work life and travel. I learned that trying to attain "balance" in my life was not only futile, but mythological. Kudos to Mr. Miller for showing me the way God's creation works - and how we should live in harmony with it, not against it.