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A vow is like a GPS system for your life. When taken on mindfully it can be a source of surprising wisdom and powerful energy, enabling you to accomplish things you never dreamed possible. It can have profound effects even beyond the original intention—and it can even live on after you’re gone. A vow can be as small as the aspiration to smile at someone at least once every day, or it can be as big as marriage; it can be as personal as deciding to be mindful whenever you pick up the phone, or it can be as universal as a commitment to save all sentient beings. But whatever its inspiration, when it’s done with conscious intention a vow becomes a conduit for the energy of your life.In this guide to the vow-directed life, Jan Chozen Bays provides a wealth of practical exercises to use for formulating and implementing vows of your own and for using them to navigate your life with honesty and compassion.

A growing body of research is showing that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health, and improve one’s overall quality of life. Jan Chozen Bays, MD—physician and Zen teacher—has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate mindfulness as we go about our ordinary, daily lives. Exercises include: taking three deep breaths before answering the phone, noticing and adjusting your posture throughout the day, eating mindfully, and leaving no trace of yourself after using the kitchen or bathroom. Each exercise is presented with tips on how to remind yourself and a short life lesson connected with it.

If you’ve heard about the many benefits of mindfulness practice but think you don’t have time for it in your busy life, prepare to be proven delightfully wrong. Mindfulness is available every moment, including right now, as Zen teacher Jan Chozen Bays shows with these twenty-five mindfulness exercises that can be done anywhere. Use them to cultivate the gratitude and insight that come from paying attention with body, heart, and mind to life’s many small moments.This is an abridged edition of How to Train a Wild Elephant.

Mindfulness can restore the healthy relationship with food we were meant to have.Food. It should be one of life’s great pleasures, yet many of us have such a conflicted relationship with it that we miss out on that most basic of satisfactions.  But it is possible—and not really all that difficult--to reclaim the joy of eating, according to Dr. Jan Bays, and mindfulness is the key. Her approach involves bringing one''s full attention to the process of eating—to all the tastes, smells, thoughts, and feelings that arise during a meal.  She shows how to: ·         Tune into your body’s own wisdom about what, when, and how much to eat ·         Eat less while feeling fully satisfied ·         Identify your habits and patterns with food ·         Develop a more compassionate attitude toward your struggles with eating ·         Discover what you’re really hungry for Whether you are overweight, suffer from an eating disorder, or just want to get more out of life, this book offers a simple tool that can transform your relationship with food into one of ease and delight.             This new edition, updated  throughout, contains a new chapter on how to provide  children with a foundation in mindful eating that will serve them well all the rest of their lives. It also includes a link to a 75-minute on-line audio program of mindful eating exercises led by the author.

A compact, carry-along collection of meditative eating practices to use wherever you happen to be.Eating should be a source of joy—not a cause of angst, stress, or calorie-counting. Jan Chozen Bays’s 2009 edition of Mindful Eating demonstrated the timeliness of that message in a world where our relationship with food is often negatively charged to the point where eating disorders are epidemic. Her approach ties together the latest science with Buddhist mindfulness techniques (she’s an MD as well as a Zen teacher) in a way that’s brought amazing results to folks who had no idea eating could be such a fulfilling and fun activity. With this little book, Jan now makes mindful eating even more accessible, providing simple exercises you can use anywhere in a small format you can keep in your pocket or purse to pull out for inspiration wherever you might be—any time you want to find a way to reconnect with eating as one of life’s great joys.

In Jizo Bodhisattva, Zen teacher and practicing pediatrician Jan Chozen Bays explores the development of traditional Buddhist practices related to Jizo, as well as the growing interest in Jizo practice in modern American Zen Buddhism.She also shows how you can incorporate this rich tradition into your own life, through meditations, mantras and chanting.In traditional Buddhist belief, a bodhisattva is an enlightened being who has forsaken entry into nirvana until all beings are saved. Jizo, one of the four great bodhisattvas of Mahayana Buddhism, is know as "the Bodhisattva of the Greatest Vows." He is regarded as the protector of travelers—whether their journeys in the physical world, or in the spiritual reams. Jizo also has special significance for pregnant women and parents whose children have died.

Ein Handbuch der Achtsamkeit. Die 53 Übungen richten sich an Menschen, die mit diesem Übungsprogramm mehr Achtsamkeit in ihren Alltag bringen möchten – unabhängig von Alter, Bildungsstand oder Beruf.Achtsamkeit reduziert Stress und fördert das körperliche und seelische Wohlbefinden. Dieses uralte Erfahrungswissen wird heute von der wissenschaftlichen Forschung bestätigt. Und Achtsamkeit mitten im Trubel des Alltags zu kultivieren, ist gar nicht kompliziert. Dr. med. Jan Chozen Bays zeigt, wie es geht:In 53 praktischen Übungen lernen wir, Alltagssituationen in Arbeit und Freizeit, Familienleben und Partnerschaft zu einem Abenteuerspielplatz unseres Bewusstseins zu machen. Jede dieser Übungen vermittelt überraschende Einsichten und führt uns in kleinen Schritten mit großer Wirkung zu mehr Gelassenheit und Lebensfreude.

El arte de la atención (mindfulness) puede transformar nuestra cotidiana lucha con las comidas, renovar nuestro sentido del placer, así como nuestra satisfacción con la comida.Comer atentos es un enfoque que implica concentrar totalmente la atención en el proceso de comer, con todos los sabores, olores, pensamientos y sensaciones que surgen durante una comida. Tanto si padeces de sobrepeso o de cualquier otro trastorno alimentario, o simplemente deseas sacarle más jugo a la vida, con este libro aprenderás a:- sintonizar con la propia sabiduría del cuerpo en lo relativo a qué, cuándo y cuánto comer;- comer menos sintiéndote saciado;- identificar tus hábitos y pautas alimentarias;- desarrollar una actitud más compasiva con respecto a tus luchas con la comida;- descubrir qué ansías verdaderamente.