
How to Train a Wild Elephant

Mindfulness practice brings our awareness back to this body, this time, this place. This is exactly where we can be touched by the eternal presence we call the Divine.
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
Mindfulness is deliberately paying full attention to what is happening around you and within you—in
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
would be the clues that you are standing or sitting or lying down?
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
Mindfulness practice helps us to become at ease no matter what conditions exist,
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
of our mental and emotional energy.
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
Much of our dissatisfaction with life will disappear, and many simple joys will emerge, if we can learn to be present with things just as they are.
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
If our mind isn’t made to be fully attentive to two things at once, then we are always ignoring a lot of things.
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
When we are mindful, we
Jan Chozen Bays MD • How to Train a Wild Elephant
Your practice should begin as you awaken in the morning. It should continue until you fall asleep.