The Free Spirit: Simple Joys for Wise Living is a handbook for self-discovery. Playful yet profound, the book touches on simple ways to be happy, including self-care, transformational thinking, emotional healing, relationship success, empowered communication, and spiritual awakening. Like any true teacher, the book doesn't answer all of life's questions. It encourages the seeker to look within, to that most trustworthy guide-the free spirit. Through simple interactive exercises, The Free Spirit offers a personalized approach, so that we can each realize true happiness-just as we are! "The Free Spirit," accomplishes something wonderful. Here is a handbook for living that distills the great truths of masters past and present, and makes those truths accessible to everyone. The beginners on the journey to inner peace will find this a wonderful guide book to help them find their way, while the more adept will find the support and companionship of truths worth remembering. We can open the book to any page, and there, on that page, is exactly the lesson, information, and gift that is remarkably perfect for the place we are in. Parents and children, teachers and students . . . all of us traveling this path to inner knowledge and freedom will benefit by reading any part of this book each and every day. -Rabbi Roger Ross, Psychotherapist; Executive Director, Rabbinical Seminary International; Board Chair, International Seminary for Interfaith Studies (ISIS) Inspiring and practical, "The Free Spirit" is a helpful offering to people in pain and their healers. In workbook style, this wise manual could be used by oneself, between a practitioner and a patient, or within a group, either led or peer supported. May "The Free Spirit" find its way to those in need, and may they be healed by its guidance. -Kathryn Fraser, MD, Medical director of the Recovery Resiliency Program at the University of New Mexico Psychiatric Center "The Free Spirit" is a cheerful and profound guide for anyone who wishes to become healthier. Heartily recommended. -Janine Canan MD, Psychiatrist; Editor of "Messages from Amma" "The Free Spirit" is a humble yet profound recording of Swamini Sri Lalitambika Devi's understanding of the problems that we face in life, but moreso, the solutions are offered in a most simple manner. Child-like simplicity is a necessary ingredient for a worry-free life, both in terms of communication and application. Readers and seekers will find this book enjoyable and beneficial. -Swami Parameshananda, Bharat Sevashram UN and International Representative; Author of "Eternal Answers"