Jan Chozen Bays(b. 1945)

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 plena puede transformar nuestros conflictos con la alimentación –y renovar nuestro sentido del placer, valoración y satisfacción con la comida. Recurriendo a investigaciones recientes e integrando sus experiencias como médica y maestra de meditación, la Dra. Jan Bays ofrece una presentación maravillosamente clara de lo que es la conciencia plena y cómo ésta puede ayudar con los problemas alimenticios. Comer atentos es un enfoque que involucra llevar una conciencia plena al proceso de alimentación –a todos los sabores, olores, pensamientos y sensaciones que surgen durante una comida. Ya sea que usted tenga sobrepeso, sufra de un desorden alimenticio, o simplemente quiera sacar más provecho de su vida, este libro le ofrece una herramienta simple que puede marcar una diferencia notable. En este libro, usted aprenderá cómo: • Sintonizar con la propia sabiduría de su cuerpo en relación a qué, cuándo y cuánto comer. • Sentirse plenamente satisfecha aunque coma menos. • Identificar sus hábitos y patrones alimenticios. • Desarrollar una actitud más compasiva hacia sus problemas alimenticios. • Descubrir la verdadera fuente de su ansiedad por la comida. Comer atentos incluye también un programa descargable de audio de 80 minutos de duración, con ejercicios guiados. 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 in to 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 an 80-minute downloadable audio program of guided exercises.

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.

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 y

Manger en pleine conscience permet de se relier de façon plus apaisée à la nourriture, procure davantage de plaisir à table et, en permettant de trouver le sentiment de satiété avant d’avoir “ trop mangé ”, nous aide à perdre du poids. Ananda Ceballos, enseigne le Mindful Eating à Paris, Yael Bloch est enseignante de yoga. Cet ouvrage, qui propose réflexion et exercices pratiques, est le fruit de leur expérience.

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.

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. Dr. Bays offers a wonderfully clear presentation of what mindfulness is and how it can help to create a healthier relationship with food.

Simple mindfulness practices to help health care professionals of all kinds reconnect with themselves and their patients, find joy, and build resilience. Healers need healing too. Mindful Medicine shares simple mindfulness practices and brief meditations that fit easily into the demanding schedule of a healthcare worker’s day, creating an experience of less stress and more presence, connection, ease, and flow. Addressing topics such as connecting with yourself and your patients, the role of the Inner Critic in medicine, and rescue remedies for times of stress, this book offers evidence-based support for the many challenges of healthcare work. These short practices are an invitation to replenish the passion of healthcare work and douse the flickering flames of burnout.

Mindfulness practices anyone can do anytime. 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.

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, the

Voici une approche révolutionnaire pour transformer notre façon de manger et pour perdre du poids sans nous priver : elle consiste à observer les goûts, les odeurs, les sensations, les pensées et les émotions qui surgissent au cours d'un repas. S'appuyant sur des recherches scientifiques récentes et sur son expérience de médecin et de professeur de méditation, le Dr Jan Chozen Bays nous présente cette thérapie qui a déjà fait ses preuves. Dans ce livre, nous apprenons à : Renouer avec la sagesse de notre corps pour savoir ce dont nous avons besoin, quand et en quelles quantités ; Manger moins sans être frustrés ; Identifier nos habitudes alimentaires ; Ne plus être en guerre contre la nourriture et contre nous-mêmes. Un CD MP3 offert propose un programme de 14 exercices pour identifier les 7 types de faim, et bien d'autres expériences pour un nouveau rapport à l'alimentation et à nous-mêmes.

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.