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A pocket-sized collection of mindfulness practices anyone can do anytime--from the author of Mindful Eating.

Table 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.

Reviews

Praise for Bays's How to Train a Wild Elephant:

"Among the current spate of books on mindfulness, Bays's distinguishes itself with 53 simple practices tested through 20 years at the Great Vow Monastery in Oregon. [She] brings gentle compassion to the task of integrating mindfulness into a busy life."—Publishers Weekly

"This is the kind of book you can open to any page, anytime, and read something that just might stop your mind in its tracks."—Nexus

"In a brilliant, practical, and elegant way, Bays has answered the question most frequently asked by students of meditation: 'How do I bring this practice into my daily life?' Here is a jewel box of insightful, wise, beautiful, and compassionate ways to do so."—Jack Kornfield, author of A Path with Heart

"With simple exercises designed to bring mindfulness into daily life and with gentle ways to remind ourselves to practice, the author leads practitioners to the discoveries and deeper lessons that each exercise can reveal. With [Jan Chozen Bays's] help, mindfulness practice becomes a powerful yet delightful gateway to the inner peace that is within reach of us all."—Spirituality & Health