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Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food
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 appr...more
Mindful eating is an appr...more
Paperback, 240 pages
Published
February 3rd 2009
by Shambhala
(first published January 1st 2009)
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I feel like I should like this book more because the author is a local and loved Zen teacher. I think the method of mindful eating is well-presented and a useful tool, but enlightened though she may be, Chozen Bays reveals her lack of need to confront fat karma.
In his foreword to the book, Jon Kabat-Zinn refers to "our disordered relationship to food and eating." I thought, wow, that's just what I've been saying. I think we have a societal eating disorder, and it just see...more
In his foreword to the book, Jon Kabat-Zinn refers to "our disordered relationship to food and eating." I thought, wow, that's just what I've been saying. I think we have a societal eating disorder, and it just see...more
This book has a very good heart. I have no doubt that Bays' intention was to give us a guide to eating mindfully that would be very useful. In some ways she succeeded, but in others she was not nearly so successful.
I suppose it is useful to note that I consider myself overweight. I also think of myself as a devoted practitioner of mindfulness. I know that mindfulness can be helpful in finding my way to a healthier relationship to food. None of this is in doubt for me. Since I require n...more
I suppose it is useful to note that I consider myself overweight. I also think of myself as a devoted practitioner of mindfulness. I know that mindfulness can be helpful in finding my way to a healthier relationship to food. None of this is in doubt for me. Since I require n...more
This is one of those books that I checked out from the library and then liked so much I bought it (well, it's waiting for me at Barnes & Noble). In my life-long battle of the bulge, I've come to recognize myself as a mindless eater--one of my self-mocking mantras is "Why did I eat it? Because it was THERE." This book offered a Buddhism-centric viewpoint on all the different hungers we are feeding with our eating from time to time--eye hunger, nose hunger, mouth hunger, stomach hunger, ...more
Coming from a belief system that values mindfulness as the key to acceptance and change, I found the concept of mindful eating attractive. Instead of focusing on the qualities of healthy or non-healthy foods, the author encourages becoming in tune with what the body needs and wants. The problem is not the food per say but our relationship to it. The goal is become mindful so as to approach food with a thinking mind and a feeling heart
he book engages mindfulness by appreciating and va...more
he book engages mindfulness by appreciating and va...more
I read this book in conjunction with a Healthy living class I took this spring. There are some interesting insights into the dynamics of individual relationships with food and eating. There are some exercises and activities that accompany the book as well as a CD that the author reads to help with the exercises. I can't say that I totally agree with every aspect of what's presented - but there are definitely some things worth considering and I found parts of it helpful in altering my association...more
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Oy. Be prepared to enter the world of zen. The exercises were laughable. I had hoped that this book would shed some light on eating disorders, but instead I found myself giggling through most of it. I would guess that the people who love this book probably don't need it, as they live a "mindful" lifestyle. As for the rest of us.....well.....we're not going to hold a raisin in our hand pretending that we are on a distant planet and it's the first thing we find to bring back to the space...more
Really good, really helpful book. She brings to awareness, or mindfulness how we eat--too fast and too mindlessly, often eating out of habit not because we want or need to. It's made me reevaluate each time I decid to go get something out of the fridge--"Do I really want this?" I'm surprised at how many times I answer, "No, not really." And b/c I have thought about it I can then do something else. (If the answer is "YES!" then I go ahead and get it.)
I highly recommend this for any one who struggles with their relationship with food. There is no judgment, lectures, or preaching, just practical tools to work with your own issues. Really worthwhile.
This book is nothing short of paradigm shifting for me. The lessons taught within are so much more than just tips on eating better. These are life lessons being told through food. The writing is clean and clear, economical and easily switches from humor to a benevolent, matronly sincerity that is hard to deny. Absolutely incredible.
Coming from a belief system that values the human body, I found the concept of mindful eating attractive. Instead of focusing on "good" and "bad" foods, the author encourages becoming in tune with the body and what it needs and wants. Bays advocates eating slowly and purposefully, stopping when you're satisfied instead of bursting at the seams. While some of the theories proposed in this book are a little too new age for me, I like the idea of evaluating the different types o...more
An absolutely wonderful book that changed my conscious relationship with food. Easy to understand and follow even without having had any prior mindfulness training.
Not interested in Zen, but thought I'd give it a half a chance by reading this book. Sorry, not my thing. Not the author's fault.
Amazing book and a practice meditation CD . . . I need a lot more practice.
Comaskeyk001
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have to stop munching while reading.....
Interesting, and filled with helpful exercises! Not for everyone (some may find the concept a little kumbaya, or chewy, if you will), but I thoroughly enjoyed it.
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Excellent...unpretentious!
This is a good book with good information as you can imagine by the title. It just seems to be so simple - mindfulness as applied to eating - with nothing really new. So good to read if you want to focus on and consider the topic but not if you are looking for new information yet already get the idea of mindfulness.
great book!
Dr. Bays or Chozen as she is known in her life at the Great Vow Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon also hosts regular Mindful Eating Weekend Retreats. I attended and enjoyed the experience.
Dr. Bays or Chozen as she is known in her life at the Great Vow Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon also hosts regular Mindful Eating Weekend Retreats. I attended and enjoyed the experience.
I've checked this one out four times -- I guess it's time to buy it! The exercises and guided meditations on the CD are a great extra. I heartily recommend this.
Great, easy read for the lay person. Nice exercises with the DVDs. Recommended to many patients!
Sage advice, gently delivered.
TRANSFORMATIVE!
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Reading it is one thing, practicing it is another.
Reading it is one thing, practicing it is another.
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