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    Mindfulness on the Go

    Simple Meditation Practices You Can Do Anywhere

    Part of Shambhala Pocket Library

    Author Jan Chozen Bays
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    Shambhala
    On sale Aug 01, 2017 | 248 Pages | 9780834841024
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    A pocket-sized collection of 25 easy mindfulness practices you can do anytime, anywhere—from the author of Mindful Eating

    Mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health and quality of life, and give you deep insight. Meditation practice is one way to do it, but not the only way. In fact, there are easy ways to fit it into your everyday life. Jan Chozen Bays provides here 25 practices that can be used on the go to cultivate mindfulness. The three-breath practice, the mindfulness of entering rooms, offering compliments, tasting your food one careful bite at a time—these deceptively simple practices can have a cumulative effect for the better. 

    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 book is an abridgment of Bays' longer collection How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness.


    Mindfulness on the Go is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series. The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life.
    Introduction
    1. Use Your Nondominant Hand
    2. Filler Words
    3. Appreciate Your Hands
    4. When Eating, Just Eat
    5. True Compliments
    6. Listen to Sounds
    7. Loving Touch
    8. Waiting
    9. Secret Acts of Virtue
    10. Just Three Breaths
    11. Entering New Spaces
    12. Rest Your Hands
    13. Say Yes
    14. Bottoms of the Feet
    15. One Bite at a Time
    16. Study Suffering
    17. Notice Smells
    18. This Person Could Die Tonight
    19. Hot and Cold
    20. Notice Dislike
    21. Listen like a Sponge
    22. Appreciation
    23. Mindful Driving
    24. Look Deeply into Food
    25. Smile
    Beginning a Sitting Meditation Practice
    Suggested Reading
    Acknowledgments
    Jan Chozen Bays, MD, is a Zen master in the White Plum lineage of the late master Taizan Maezumi Roshi. She serves as a priest and teacher at the Jizo Mountain–Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon. She is also a pediatrician who specializes in the evaluation of children for abuse and neglect.
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    Praise for Bays's How to Train a Wild Elephant:

    "Among the current spate of books on mindfulness, Bays's distinguishes itself with 53 simple practices tested through 20 years at the Great Vow Monastery in Oregon. [She] brings gentle compassion to the task of integrating mindfulness into a busy life."—Publishers Weekly

    "This is the kind of book you can open to any page, anytime, and read something that just might stop your mind in its tracks."—Nexus

    "In a brilliant, practical, and elegant way, Bays has answered the question most frequently asked by students of meditation: 'How do I bring this practice into my daily life?' Here is a jewel box of insightful, wise, beautiful, and compassionate ways to do so."—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

    "With simple exercises designed to bring mindfulness into daily life and with gentle ways to remind ourselves to practice, the author leads practitioners to the discoveries and deeper lessons that each exercise can reveal. With [Jan Chozen Bays's] help, mindfulness practice becomes a powerful yet delightful gateway to the inner peace that is within reach of us all."—Spirituality & Health

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    A pocket-sized collection of 25 easy mindfulness practices you can do anytime, anywhere—from the author of Mindful Eating

    Mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health and quality of life, and give you deep insight. Meditation practice is one way to do it, but not the only way. In fact, there are easy ways to fit it into your everyday life. Jan Chozen Bays provides here 25 practices that can be used on the go to cultivate mindfulness. The three-breath practice, the mindfulness of entering rooms, offering compliments, tasting your food one careful bite at a time—these deceptively simple practices can have a cumulative effect for the better. 

    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 book is an abridgment of Bays' longer collection How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness.


    Mindfulness on the Go is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series. The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    1. Use Your Nondominant Hand
    2. Filler Words
    3. Appreciate Your Hands
    4. When Eating, Just Eat
    5. True Compliments
    6. Listen to Sounds
    7. Loving Touch
    8. Waiting
    9. Secret Acts of Virtue
    10. Just Three Breaths
    11. Entering New Spaces
    12. Rest Your Hands
    13. Say Yes
    14. Bottoms of the Feet
    15. One Bite at a Time
    16. Study Suffering
    17. Notice Smells
    18. This Person Could Die Tonight
    19. Hot and Cold
    20. Notice Dislike
    21. Listen like a Sponge
    22. Appreciation
    23. Mindful Driving
    24. Look Deeply into Food
    25. Smile
    Beginning a Sitting Meditation Practice
    Suggested Reading
    Acknowledgments

    Author

    Jan Chozen Bays, MD, is a Zen master in the White Plum lineage of the late master Taizan Maezumi Roshi. She serves as a priest and teacher at the Jizo Mountain–Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon. She is also a pediatrician who specializes in the evaluation of children for abuse and neglect.
    Jan Chozen Bays View titles by Jan Chozen Bays

    Praise

    Praise for Bays's How to Train a Wild Elephant:

    "Among the current spate of books on mindfulness, Bays's distinguishes itself with 53 simple practices tested through 20 years at the Great Vow Monastery in Oregon. [She] brings gentle compassion to the task of integrating mindfulness into a busy life."—Publishers Weekly

    "This is the kind of book you can open to any page, anytime, and read something that just might stop your mind in its tracks."—Nexus

    "In a brilliant, practical, and elegant way, Bays has answered the question most frequently asked by students of meditation: 'How do I bring this practice into my daily life?' Here is a jewel box of insightful, wise, beautiful, and compassionate ways to do so."—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

    "With simple exercises designed to bring mindfulness into daily life and with gentle ways to remind ourselves to practice, the author leads practitioners to the discoveries and deeper lessons that each exercise can reveal. With [Jan Chozen Bays's] help, mindfulness practice becomes a powerful yet delightful gateway to the inner peace that is within reach of us all."—Spirituality & Health

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