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How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness
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A growing body of research is showing that mindfulness can reduce stress, improve physical health, and improve one’s overall quality of life. Jan Chozen Bays, MD—physician and Zen teacher—has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate mindfulness as we go about our ordinary, daily lives. Exercises include: taking three deep breaths before answering the phone, noticing and adjusting your posture throughout the day, eating mindfully, and leaving no trace of yourself after using the kitchen or bathroom. Each exercise is presented with tips on how to remind yourself and a short life lesson connected with it.
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        Amid the current spate of books on mindfulness, Bays's distinguishes itself with 53 simple practices tested through 20 years at the Great Vow Zen Monastery in Oregon. A pediatrician as well as the center's abbess, Bays (Mindful Eating) has found "one reliable remedy for the relief of recurrent discomfort and unhappiness.... It is regular mindfulness practice." Bays, a student of Maezumi Roshi and Shodo Harada Roshi, brings gentle compassion to the task of integrating mindfulness into a busy life. Practices include leaving no trace, eliminating filler words, waiting, mindful driving, saying yes, silly walking, and noticing dislike. Each practice includes reminder tips, "discoveries" members of her community have made, and "deeper lessons" that might be drawn. The introduction clearly defines mindfulness and outlines its benefits in calming the mind that habitually dwells in the past, anticipates the unknown future, or creates fantasies. Bays's insights are frequently astute. This encouraging book serves as a guide for incorporating mindfulness into the most mundane of daily activities in the spirit of Zen.

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        Leave no trace. The value of accomplishing this axiom when using just one room of our home, work space or just about any place, may be far more than we can imagine.This is just one of 53 lessons that can foster mindfulness offered by author Bays, a pediatrician, meditation teacher, and abbess of Great Vow Zen Monastery in Oregon. These exercises resonate with our deepest desire to leave the world no worse than we found it and include eliminating unnecessary words from speech, offering true compliments, abstaining from cell-phone use, eating without distraction, praying while waiting, walking backward, and using a nondominant hand. The exercises vary dramatically, but all manage to bring consciousness to actions we often take for granted. The book also contains inspirational quotes from Zen masters. An uplifting read for the solitary practitioner and a great workbook for meditation groups and friends wanting to get the most out of life.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2011, American Library Association.)

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