Mindfulness on the Go: Simple Meditation Practices You Can Do Anywhere (Shambhala Pocket Library Book 9)

If you've heard about the many benefits of mindfulness practice but think you don't have time for it in your busy life, prepare to be proven delightfully wrong. Mindfulness is available every moment, including right now, as Zen teacher Jan Chozen Bays shows with these twenty-five mindfulness exercises that can be done anywhere. Use them to cultivate the gratitude and insight that come from paying attention with body, heart, and mind to life's many small moments. This is an abridged edition of How to Train a Wild Elephant . A pocket-sized collection of 25 easy mindfulness practices you can do anytime, anywhere—from the author of Mindful Eating Mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health and quality of life, and give you deep insight. Meditation practice is one way to do it, but not the only way. In fact, there are easy ways to fit it into your everyday life. Jan Chozen Bays provides here 25 practices that can be used on the go to cultivate mindfulness. The three-breath practice, the mindfulness of entering rooms, offering compliments, tasting your food one careful bite at a time—these deceptively simple practices can have a cumulative effect for the better. Use them to cultivate the gratitude and insight that come from paying attention with body, heart, and mind to life’s many small moments. This book is an abridgment of Bays' longer collection How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness . Mindfulness on the Go is part of the Shambhala Pocket Library series. The Shambhala Pocket Library is a collection of short, portable teachings from notable figures across religious traditions and classic texts. The covers in this series are rendered by Colorado artist Robert Spellman. The books in this collection distill the wisdom and heart of the work Shambhala Publications has published over 50 years into a compact format that is collectible, reader-friendly, and applicable to everyday life. "A pocket-sized collection of mindfulness practices anyone can do anytime--from the author of Mindful Eating. Mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health and quality of life, and give you deep insight. Meditation practice is one way to do it, but not the only way. In fact, there are easy ways to fit it into your everyday life. Jan Chozen Bays provides here 25 practices that can be used on the go to cultivate mindfulness. The three-breath practice, the mindfulness of entering rooms, offering compliments, tasting your food one careful bite at a time--these deceptively simple practices can have a cumulative effect for the better. The book is an abridgment of Bays's longer collection How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness"-- Provided by publisher Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1. Use Your Nondominant Hand 2. Filler Words 3. Appreciate Your Hands 4. When Eating, Just Eat 5. True Compliments 6. Listen to Sounds 7. Loving Touch 8. Waiting 9. Secret Acts of Virtue 10. Just Three Breaths 11. Entering New Spaces 12. Rest Your Hands 13. Say Yes 14. Bottoms of the Feet 15. One Bite at a Time 16. Study Suffering 17. Notice Smells 18. This Person Could Die Tonight 19. Hot and Cold 20. Notice Dislike 21. Listen like a Sponge 22. Appreciation 23. Mindful Driving 24. Look Deeply into Food 25. Smile Beginning a Sitting Meditation Practice Suggested Reading Acknowledgments.