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Discover how to shed old thinking patterns--and live more joyfully with food.
Are you ready to get to the roots of your challenges around food-- whether it's gratuitous snacking,compulsive or emotional eating, indulging cravings, overeating, or other disheartening habits? Be ready to get mindful.
Mindfulness can be the deciding factor between your successful adoption of a healthy vegan diet and repeated frustrating attempts. This simple technique goes under the surface of what is hampering your happiness, providing a sought-after solution to many of life's ups and downs by rewiring your reactivity to challenges.
Certified mindfulness meditation facilitator, award winning health educator, and longtime vegan advocate Lani Muelrath has been practicing mindfulness meditation for 25 years. In The Mindful Vegan, she teaches you how to practice mindfulness and shows how it can bring freedom and a new joy to your eating-- and living-- experience.
Backed by extensive research, with step-by- step instructions, personal stories, positivity, humor, and a handful of delicious recipes, The Mindful Vegan will help you emancipate yourself from the stranglehold that mindless and compulsive eating have on your weight, health, food choices, and, most of all, peace of mind.
With Lani's guidance, you'll learn the techniques of mindfulness meditation, opening the door to creating a more resilient vegan lifestyle. You'll discover why eating in a way that lines up with your convictions about health, the environment, and ethics reduces stress and increases happiness.
The Mindful Vegan sets you on a path to cultivating your capacity for genuine happiness and a more peaceful life-- in a way that is personally satisfying and aligned with your deepest values. This book is for anyone who wants to be free of frustrating and baffling eating behaviors, experience a new ease around eating, and discover their naturally healthy body and weight.
What's more, you'll learn to navigate conversations with others about eating - and living - vegan with greater clarity and equanimity.
Stop stressing. Start living-- and eating-- mindfully. Your body and mind will thank you.
Review
Mindfulness is probably the most important practice we can ever undertake. In this wonderful book, Lani Muelrath explains, with compassion and clarity, how you can eat and live more mindfully--and thus how you can transform your life.~ Dr. Melanie Joy, author of Why We Love Dogs, Eat Pigs, and Wear Cows and Beyond Beliefs: A Guide to Improving Relationships and Communication for Vegans, Vegetarians, and Meat Eaters.
In over 40 years of conducting clinical research, my colleagues and I have shown that a whole foods plant-based diet (naturally low in refined carbs and fat), along with meditation/yoga, exercise, and social support (love & intimacy) can reverse the progression of the most common chronic diseases. The more illnesses we study, and the more underlying biological mechanisms we examine, the more reasons we have to explain why these lifestyle changes are so powerful and how quickly they may occur. The Mindful Vegan eloquently describes why, and how. ~ Dean Ornish, M.D., Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute and author of six books, all bestsellers
Lani takes conscious living up a notch with this beautiful guide whose ripple effects extend far and wide. Long before you finish, you will have a much deeper connection to your own compassion - and a much broader understanding of what it means to live mindfully. ~ Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, bestselling author of The 30-Day Vegan Challenge and host of the Food for Thought podcast.
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"The Mindful Vegan isn't just a book, it's Lani Muelrath herself. In the years I've known her, I have always admired how remarkably present she is in every moment. This book is a gift to those of us who desire the same presence of mind and shows us, in bite-sized steps