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Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food |  | Author: Jan Chozen Bays
Publisher: Shambhala
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
Edition: Pap/Com
Pages: 240
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.8
ISBN: 1590305310
Dewey Decimal Number: 394.1
EAN: 9781590305317
ASIN: 1590305310
Publication Date: February 3, 2009
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Here is an accessible and encouraging exploration of how and why to apply the Zen art of mindfulness to transform our “issues” with food. Whether we are overweight (as are two-thirds of American adults today) or suffer from an eating disorder, learning to eat mindfully can liberate us from the suffering we experience with food. Practiced for centuries in the Zen tradition, mindful eating is an approach that involves bringing one’s full attention to the process of eating—becoming fully present to the tastes, smells, thoughts, and feelings that arise during a meal. Preliminary research funded by the National Institutes of Health indicates that mindfulness is effective in treating eating disorders.
Dr. Bays, a physician and Zen teacher, offers a wonderfully clear presentation of what mindfulness is and how it can help us create a healthier relationship with food. In Mindful Eating she shows us how to rediscover the simple act of eating, thereby gaining control of our eating problems from the inside out. Along the way she reviews the relevant research, offers medical information, and presents numerous practical exercises drawn from her workshops. Through mindful eating we not only overcome our issues with food, but we can reawaken our sense of pleasure and satisfaction. This book shows us how.
Mindful Eating also includes a 70-minute audio CD containing guided exercises read by the author.
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 Mindful eating July 19, 2009
Mrs. R. Wilson (U.K.)
This by far the best book I have read on these subjecys. Most books emphasize one aspect ot the other but this book emphasizes both aspects equally. It is simple to follow and keeps to the point
Rosetta Wilson
Mindful eating July 6, 2009
DigitalDragon (Indy, Indiana, United States)
Great book for Buddhist and non Buddhist alike. Reminds us why we need to eat. One needs to eat healthy to live. Great weight loss guide very positive
weight loss without dieting June 26, 2009
Donald G. Meegan (Bristol, RI USA)
Chozen Bays has given us a wake-up call to appreciate our food in a healthy, intelligent and joyful manner.
Lovely and Supportive June 16, 2009
Sherri Montgomery (Portland, OR USA)
Jan Chozen Bays Roshi's book approaches teaching ourselves to eat mindfully with humor, insight, and her years of experience as a physician and a Zen priest. She draws upon stories taken from the many mindful eating retreats she has lead over the years. A CD of guided meditations and practices is included to support the reader in establishing a mindful eating practice at home.
an fulfilling manual for mindful eating June 14, 2009
Julie Clayton (Portland, OR)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
"This book is a manual for learning mindfulness while eating. Mindfulness is a skill that anyone can develop. It can be applied to anything that arises in our life...We all have to eat. It is a basic requirement of being alive. Unfortunately there are few daily activities that are so loaded with pain and distress, with guilt and shame, with unfulfilled longing and despair than the simple act of putting energy into our bodies. When we learn to eat mindfully, our eating can be transformed from a source of suffering to a source of renewal, self-understanding, and delight...We cannot depend upon food to fill the empty place in our heart. Ultimately what must nourish our heart is intimacy with this very moment."
This book is so attentively written that to review it in a less elegant or skillful manner would be an injustice. So, let me just say that I so appreciate it when an author models the message through their words, voice, and spirit. Jan Chozen Bays, Zen teacher and pediatrician, effortlessly brings a social, psychological, and spiritual luminosity to our relationship with food and eating. If you have any inclination to bring about change in your relationship to food--or life--Mindful Eating will teach you how to do this from the inside out.
Review by Julie Clayton
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