Be Your Own Sunshine-James Allen

Book: Be Your Own Sunshine: Towards a Better Tomorrow
Author: James Allen
Publisher: Srishti Publications

Do you think that positive thoughts are a magnet for positivity in your life?

Be Your Own Sunshine by James Allen is a collection of 4 of his works, As a Man Thinketh, From Passion to Peace, Man: King of Mind, Body and Circumstance & Foundation Stones to Happiness and Success. The book sums up the hows, whys and whats of energizing your brain and tapping into the power of positive energy and maintain a balance between our inner self and the outer self. Each of the 4 parts of the book deal with a specific aspect and at the end of the book, you can channelize the positivity in you.

The book is an amalgamation of various ideas to train one’s thoughts to affect their physical, mental, emotional and social health in a positive manner. In the first part of the book, the author talks about how to manage internal factors in order to be a successful person and harness the internal energy of one’s being to achieve a peaceful mind. In the second part, the author details the various intrinsic factors that are a speed breaker in one’s life, and how to manage them to achieve one’s goal. Moving to the third part of the book, once we have identified the issues internally, it talks about steps as to how to beat them and be free. In the fourth and last part of the book, one learns the implementation and of balance of thoughts and speech and how to better implement the points explained in your own life.

While the advice in the book is quite useful and interesting, they way it has been presented is not reader friendly. There is a lot of jargon and the language is quite complex, which causes one to lose interest in the happenings of the book. The presentation is quite bland, and the same concepts could have been explained better using graphics. Being a self-help book, it could have been better designed that could have interested more people.

Overall, a decent book, that is helpful, but can improve upon its design.

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