Mindfulness on the Go

Simple Meditation Practices You Can Do Anywhere

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On sale Dec 12, 2017 | 152 Pages | 9781611804454

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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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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.

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