Except that it’s not really 'now' that the inner critic attacks. It’s a few seconds or a minute ago. The inner critic depends upon comparison, and wh…

- Jan Chozen Bays

If we practice stepping into the unknown, moment by moment, hour by hour, millions of times, then death is just the next step into the unknown. It lo…

- Jan Chozen Bays

Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you-in your body, heart and mind. Mindfulness is awareness without crit…

- Jan Chozen Bays

When you are unhappy, discover what you are clinging to and let it go.

- Jan Chozen Bays

Several times a day, stop and just listen. Open your hearing 360 degrees, as if your ears were giant radar dishes. Listen to the obvious sounds, and …

- Jan Chozen Bays

We wouldn't pay to rent and watch the same painful movie two hundred fifty times, but somehow we let our mind replay a bad memory over and over, each…

- Jan Chozen Bays

The problem is not in the food... The problem lies in the mind. It lies in our lack of awareness of the messages coming in from our body... Mindful e…

- Jan Chozen Bays

Mindful eating is a way to become reacquainted with the guidance of our internal nutritionist.

- Jan Chozen Bays

Resting in this moment, we have no age.

- Jan Chozen Bays