Jan Chozen Bays > Quotes

“When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“Kind words are a gift. They create wealth in the heart.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“Resting in this moment, we have no age.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“Anxiety is the subtle and pervasive destroyer of our happiness. It depends on thoughts of past and future. It cannot exist in the present.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“Words: First practice leaving no traces. Then practice leaving things better than you found them.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“When heart hunger is not recognized, people can try to use food to soothe their distress, but soon they find that the inner critic is attacking them for eating inappropriately.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, Mindful Eating on the Go: Practices for Eating with Awareness, Wherever You Are

“¿Por qué, en medio de esa epidemia de adultos acarreando y constantemente mamando de botellas de agua decoradas con distintos logotipos empresariales, no se ha preguntado nadie cómo ha sido posible que nuestras madres y padres, y nuestros abuelos, y toda la raza humana a lo largo de decenas de miles de años, se hayan salvado de la aniquilación masiva por deshidratación porque no se habían inventado todavía botellas de agua de plástico policarbonatado llenas de “agua mineral”? Nuestras mentes modernas creen en lo que nos cuenta la “ciencia” putativa y otras historias de viejas en las revistas, erosionando la sabiduría de nuestros cuerpos.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, COMER ATENTOS

“Mindfulness is the act of paying full, nonjudgmental attention to our moment-to-moment experience.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, Mindful Eating on the Go: Practices for Eating with Awareness, Wherever You Are

“Mindful eating returns you to internal sources of authority: your body, your heart, and your mind. These are your own trustworthy sources of wisdom and compassion. Plus, they are free and always available!”
― Jan Chozen Bays, Mindful Eating on the Go: Practices for Eating with Awareness, Wherever You Are

“They like the feeling of fullness in their abdomen. It is comforting. As they investigate mindful eating, they may discover that when they feel empty, fear arises. They may find that they are eating and drinking all day long in order to avoid this feeling. They are imprisoned by the desire for the mouth and stomach to feel full.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, Mindful Eating on the Go: Practices for Eating with Awareness, Wherever You Are

“I’m often asked about how I decided to write a book about mindful eating. It happened when I became aware of the epidemic of obesity in children and the prediction that children born in this decade would live shorter lives than their parents due to obesity-related complications, including type 2 diabetes and liver damage.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, Mindful Eating on the Go: Practices for Eating with Awareness, Wherever You Are

“There is a Buddhist recitation for invoking compassion, and it highlights the role of listening in caring for others. “We shall practice listening so attentively that we are able to hear what the other is saying—and also what is left unsaid. We know that by listening deeply we already alleviate a great deal of pain and suffering in the other.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“It is common for healthcare professionals to be able to maintain a demanding work schedule, coping well with frequent medical emergencies and tragedies—until something falls apart in their personal lives.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, Mindful Medicine: 40 Simple Practices to Help Healthcare Professionals Heal Burnout and Reconnect to Purpose

“way agave syrup went from a miracle sweetener to a dangerous substance.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

“it is all too easy for us in this postindustrial era to take eating so for granted that we engage in it with huge unawareness, and also freight it (all puns intended) with complicated psychological and emotional issues that obscure and sometimes seriously distort a simple, basic, and miraculous aspect of our lives.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food

“A few years ago a corrective report announced that people had misinterpreted the first report. Humans needed a total of sixty-four ounces of liquid a day, but they did not have to drink that amount from a glass. It actually all could come from food. And coffee and tea counted. Studies showed that these caffeinated beverages didn’t deplete the body’s liquids after all. Why, in the midst of this epidemic of grown-ups toting and constantly nursing from water bottles decorated with various company logos, has no one asked how our mothers and fathers and our grandparents, and the entire human race for tens of thousands of years before, escaped mass annihilation by dehydration because high-impact polycarbonate plastic bottles filled with “spring water” hadn’t been invented yet? Our modern minds believed what putative “science” and old wives’ tales in magazines told us and overrode the wisdom of our bodies. WHEN”
― Jan Chozen Bays, Mindful Eating: A Guide to Rediscovering a Healthy and Joyful Relationship with Food--includes C D

“Según las enseñanzas Zen, cada vez que comemos ingerimos la energía vital de incontables seres. La comida en nuestro plato es producto del sol, la tierra, la lluvia, los insectos que polinizaron las plantas y de muchas personas, como labradores, camioneros y tenderos.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, COMER ATENTOS

“Good psychotherapists use absorptive listening. They are attuned to the subtle changes in tone or quality of voice that indicate something deeper than the words, even belying the words, a sticking place, hidden tears or anger, that needs to be explored.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, How to Train a Wild Elephant: And Other Adventures in Mindfulness

“Cuando miramos de verdad, todo lo que vemos se torna hermoso: las grietas en la acera, una planta muerta, las arrugadas manos de una anciana. Los navajos advierten a su pueblo: «Caminad por la belleza». Cuando nuestra mirada está atenta, todo es hermosura y todo el mundo camina por la belleza.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, COMER ATENTOS

“ritual del oryoki.”
― Jan Chozen Bays, COMER ATENTOS