In this pocket-size follow-up to her internationally popular Mindful Eating, pediatrician and Zen teacher Dr. Jan Chozen Bays offers twenty-three accessible exercises for bringing mindfulness to your relationship with food. Bring this little volume with you to work, to a restaurant, or anywhere you'd like a reminder to eat mindfully. Or use these practices to help bring awareness to your eating even if it's a quick bite between meetings or a snack in the car. Ranging from playful (treating yourself as your own mealtime guest) to the profound (learning to send loving-kindness to your body), these mindful eating experiments all convey Dr. Bays's warmth and humor, as well as her contagious confidence that mindfulness can be a source of nourishment to anyone.
JAN CHOZEN BAYS, MD, is an ordained Zen teacher and a pediatrician who specializes in the evaluation of children for abuse and neglect. She has trained in Zen for forty-five years with Roshis Taizan Maezumi and Shodo Harada. With her husband she serves as co-abbot of Great Vow Zen Monastery, a residential center for intensive Zen training in Oregon.