Coming back home from work, as amazing as that sounds, can be quite a job in itself. Because after work, there's always cleaning and cooking and before you know it, your life is one huge cycle of chores and job. That is not how I want to live my life, but I was never good at the leave-work-at-the-office philosophy. After reading the Five good Minutes in the morning, I next went and grabbed a copy of Five Good Minutes in the Evening. It was so amazing. All I have to do, is walk into my home, sit down for 5 minutes doing one of the 100 activities in the book, and voila! I am calm, relaxed, and that throbbing on my head is no longer there. But of course, it took me sometime to get a hang of it, but once you start, you cannot stop it. And I sleep like a baby every night, and wake up feeling completely refreshed.

When I get home from work, I'm the first one to crack open the laptop and see how I can be productive...(like what I'm doing right now!)...but this book has been a Godsend. Such a great range of advice from how to truly relax to how to get along better with your spouse (who may also be going through stressful situations!) 5 minutes doesn't seem like a lot, but when you're a guy like me that always forgets to put himself on the list, 5 minutes is all you need to refresh, recoup, and restart your evening on the right foot. My wife has noticed a huge difference in my persona after work. I don't bring work home with me as I used to and I really feel blessed to have to have a wife that is so thoughtful as to buy me this book.

This is a great series of books and I have read them all. This one especially is good for anyone who suffers from anxiety because it is aimed at helping you to leave work at work and enjoy your evening after work in a relaxed and de-stressed state. Like the other books in this series, it has 100 mini-meditations and is separated into four distinct sections. The ones that I find myself using over and over are the ones that focus on how to leave work at work and not take that stress home with you and the ones that focus on getting to sleep at night. I have a hard time with both of these aspects of life, so having a mini-meditation to help you reach that goal of release is a wonderful tool. I would recommend this book to anyone who already performs meditation or is a beginner looking for baby steps, as these meditations are short and work well as an introduction to larger meditation practices. I would also recommend this book to anyone who just wants to get more "life" into their evenings and non-working hours. Life is so short and anything that can help you to enjoy life more is worth the effort. This book is in my nightstand and I use it at least once a week.