Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food - Softcover

Bays, Jan Chozen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1590305310 ISBN 13: 9781590305317

Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc, 2009

Synopsis

The art of mindfulness can transform our struggles with food--and renew our sense of pleasure, appreciation, and satisfaction with eating. Drawing on recent research and integrating her experiences as a physician and meditation teacher, Dr. Jan Bays offers a wonderfully clear presentation of what mindfulness is and how it can help with food issues.

Mindful eating is an approach that involves bringing one's full attention to the process of eating--to all the tastes, smells, thoughts, and feelings that arise during a meal. 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 make a remarkable difference.

In this book, you'll learn 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

Mindful Eating also includes a 75-minute audio CD containing guided exercises led by the author.

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Review

“Jan Chozen Bays should be recruited by the slow food movement.  My favorite mindfulness book from the past year.”—Barry Boyce in "Shambhala Sun "

"If you give yourself over wholeheartedly to the practices described here, you will be thanking yourself and Dr. Bays for recovering your life and for enjoying the blessings of food in ways that feel liberated and delightful."—from the foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Jan Chozen Bays should be recruited by the slow food movement. My favorite mindfulness book from the past year. Barry Boyce in "Shambhala Sun "

"If you give yourself over wholeheartedly to the practices described here, you will be thanking yourself and Dr. Bays for recovering your life and for enjoying the blessings of food in ways that feel liberated and delightful." from the foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn"

"Jan Chozen Bays should be recruited by the slow food movement. My favorite mindfulness book from the past year."--Barry Boyce in Shambhala Sun

"If you give yourself over wholeheartedly to the practices described here, you will be thanking yourself and Dr. Bays for recovering your life and for enjoying the blessings of food in ways that feel liberated and delightful."--from the foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn

Synopsis

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 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 American 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Shambhala Publications Inc
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1590305310
• ISBN 13: 9781590305317
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 240