Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food,   ISBN:9781590305317

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This by far the best book I have read on these subjecys. Most books emphasize one aspect ot the other but this book emphasizes both aspects equally. It is simple to follow and keeps to the point
Rosetta Wilson

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Great book for Buddhist and non Buddhist alike. Reminds us why we need to eat. One needs to eat healthy to live. Great weight loss guide very positive

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Chozen Bays has given us a wake-up call to appreciate our food in a healthy, intelligent and joyful manner.

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Jan Chozen Bays Roshi's book approaches teaching ourselves to eat mindfully with humor, insight, and her years of experience as a physician and a Zen priest. She draws upon stories taken from the many mindful eating retreats she has lead over the years. A CD of guided meditations and practices is included to support the reader in establishing a mindful eating practice at home.

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"This book is a manual for learning mindfulness while eating. Mindfulness is a skill that anyone can develop. It can be applied to anything that arises in our life...We all have to eat. It is a basic requirement of being alive. Unfortunately there are few daily activities that are so loaded with pain and distress, with guilt and shame, with unfulfilled longing and despair than the simple act of putting energy into our bodies. When we learn to eat mindfully, our eating can be transformed from a source of suffering to a source of renewal, self-understanding, and delight...We cannot depend upon food to fill the empty place in our heart. Ultimately what must nourish our heart is intimacy with this very moment."

This book is so attentively written that to review it in a less elegant or skillful manner would be an injustice. So, let me just say that I so appreciate it when an author models the message through their words, voice, and spirit. Jan Chozen Bays, Zen teacher and pediatrician, effortlessly brings a social, psychological, and spiritual luminosity to our relationship with food and eating. If you have any inclination to bring about change in your relationship to food--or life--Mindful Eating will teach you how to do this from the inside out.

Review by Julie Clayton