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Mindfulness practices anyone can do anytime. 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.
List of contents
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
About the author
JAN CHOZEN BAYS, MD, is a Zen master in the White Plum lineage of the late master Taizan Maezumi Roshi. She serves as a priest and teacher at the Jizo Mountain-Great Vow Zen Monastery in Clatskanie, Oregon. She is also a pediatrician who specializes in the evaluation of children for abuse and neglect.
