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Mindful Eating

A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

by Jan Chozen Bays
Jon Kabat-Zinn
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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 audiobook, 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

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    • Publisher

    • Release date

      May 8, 2018

    • Formats

      • OverDrive Listen audiobook

        • ISBN: 9780525592204
        • File size: 242408 KB
        • Duration: 08:25:00

    • Languages

      • English

    • Reviews

      • AudioFile Magazine
        Author Jan Chozen Bays offers a reflective narration of her book, which promotes a thoughtful approach to eating. Bays points out that people have given up their health and their appreciation of food as a result of a culture that promotes artificial techniques to improve physical appearance, high-efficiency multitasking, and convenience foods. Bays, who is also a longtime Zen teacher, evokes a tone of mindful listening with her low voice and smooth, deliberately paced reading. She offers abundant practical and sustainable tips and exercises not only for improving a person's relationship with food but also for developing a more wholesome way of life. M.F. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
      • AudioFile Magazine
        Author and narrator Jan Chozen Bays takes listeners on a journey into self-awareness as she examines the importance of eating mindfully. She unhurriedly explores how we can improve our physical and spiritual health by discovering a joyful relationship with food. Her soothing voice emanates a tranquil presence perfectly suited to the instruction on how to recognize the different types of hunger and respond to them. Bays's tone is compassionate as she addresses issues of self-worth, preoccupation with the past and future, and the emptiness that plagues our society. The guided exercises, designed to teach mindfulness and tap into one's strength, creativity, balance, and wisdom, are narrated with a reassurance that adds to the calm inspiration of this listening experience. Kaleo Griffith provides a smooth narration of the insightful introduction by Jon Kabat Zinn. M.F. © AudioFile 2018, Portland, Maine
      • Publisher's Weekly

        Starred review from February 2, 2009
        Persuasively arguing that Americans have become obsessed with the constant pursuit of satiation, often to the detriment of their health, pediatrician and Zen teacher Bays calmly and systematically explains how a thoughtful approach to eating and drinking can positively affect one's weight and overall health. Through a series of guided exercises and meditations (and an accompanying CD), Bays encourages readers to examine their eating habits and relationships with food. Bays blames the "Seven Hungers"-of eye ("boy those donuts look good"), mind ("I really should eat more grapefruit") heart ("this apple pie reminds me of my grandmother") and so on-for shaping our unhealthy and/or irrational eating patters; our inner perfectionists, critics and pushers only add to the cacophony, and Bays gives readers tools for silencing these discouraging voices. Bolstered by third-party research and a wealth of anecdotes, Bays's case for introspection over ice cream binges should connect with many. Though she doesn't promise instant results, Bays offers readers a guide to lifelong health through a measured attitude toward food; hers may well be the healthiest, most sane diet book to hit shelves in a while.

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    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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    • English

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