Mindful Eating

A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

$29.95 US
Shambhala | Shambhala Audio
24 per carton
On sale Jan 07, 2014 | 6 Hours and 15 Minutes | 978-1-61180-138-5
Sales rights: World
An audio edition of Jan Chozen Bays's landmark book on the power of mindfulness to cultivate healthy eating—read by the author herself.

Running time: 6.25 hours

     The art of mindfulness can transform our struggles with food and renew our sense of pleasure, appreciation, and satisfaction with eating. Practiced for centuries in the Zen tradition, 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.

Audiobook listeners will learn learn how to

   • Tune in to the body's own wisdom about what, when, and how much to eat
   • Eat less while feeling fully satisfied
   • Identify habits and patterns with food
   • Develop a more compassionate attitude toward struggles with eating
   • Discover what we're really hungry for
“Jan Chozen Bays should be recruited by the slow food movement.  My favorite mindfulness book from the past year.”—Barry Boyce in Shambhala Sun


"If you give yourself over wholeheartedly to the practices described here, you will be thanking yourself and Dr. Bays for recovering your life and for enjoying the blessings of food in ways that feel liberated and delightful."—from the foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn

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An audio edition of Jan Chozen Bays's landmark book on the power of mindfulness to cultivate healthy eating—read by the author herself.

Running time: 6.25 hours

     The art of mindfulness can transform our struggles with food and renew our sense of pleasure, appreciation, and satisfaction with eating. Practiced for centuries in the Zen tradition, 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.

Audiobook listeners will learn learn how to

   • Tune in to the body's own wisdom about what, when, and how much to eat
   • Eat less while feeling fully satisfied
   • Identify habits and patterns with food
   • Develop a more compassionate attitude toward struggles with eating
   • Discover what we're really hungry for

Praise

“Jan Chozen Bays should be recruited by the slow food movement.  My favorite mindfulness book from the past year.”—Barry Boyce in Shambhala Sun


"If you give yourself over wholeheartedly to the practices described here, you will be thanking yourself and Dr. Bays for recovering your life and for enjoying the blessings of food in ways that feel liberated and delightful."—from the foreword by Jon Kabat-Zinn