Title: Life: What It’s All About
Author: Robert Todd
Publisher: Pen Culture Solutions
ISBN: 9781638122333
Genre: Self-help / Motivational
Pages: 156
Reviewed by: Lily Amanda

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Life: What It’s All About is a profound and astute treatise that focuses on people’s belief systems and where they come from, which guide people’s lives to success or failure.

Here, Author Robert Todd uses two fictional characters, Thomas and Peter, to expound on the information he intends to share with readers. Readers are introduced to Thomas, who is looking for answers to what life is about. Peter, on the other hand, is a Guru about life and relationships, who has improved the lives of many in his career. Both characters represent the author’s interactions with his patients based on his years of experience as a trained clinical hypnotherapist.

The texts move deeper by providing emancipated guidance on how we learn from our life experiences, the conscious, subconscious, and superconscious minds which control many of our actions. He further explains some of the influences which affect our thoughts and attitudes as adults which include family upbringing, culture, and friends. He, however, cautions that one must learn to be an open-minded skeptic with what you have learned before and what you will learn in the future, otherwise if one has a closed mind, one may end up rejecting many things that could improve one’s knowledge and life.

The book is divided into 16 chapters which build upon each other with remarkable prose. Other subjects the text knuckles down to include meditation, dreams, karma, near-death experiences, and out-of-body experiences including the three levels of the afterlife. Todd breaks down each topic into consumable bits with ably illustrated charts along the chapters and readers will have no trouble following his guidance.

Further, Life: What It’s All About has a reposeful pace, building up the cadence of its instruction. The book’s brilliant new-fangled approach of creating a question-answer method through two fictional characters is one of the book’s main strengths. It moves beyond the theoretical by engaging the reader in self-reflection and contemplation. While the author includes other characters in this yarn to break down his information, it is Thomas’s emotional transformation and the life lessons he conclusively gathers in his sessions with Peter that truly propel this novel.

Altogether, Life: What It’s All About manages to answer the timeworn question of what the purpose of life is, encouraging readers that what they conceive and believe can be achieved. For any conflicted spirits looking for an honest path to what life is really about and what it takes to achieve one’s dreams, Robert Todd’s book is an authentic starting point as it surpasses restated wisdom that is so common in its relevant genre.