Small Bites Mindfulness for Everyday Use

Annabelle Zinser has developed meditation and mindfulness practices for a variety of everyday situations and for the mastery of emotional challenges. In short chapters the author demonstrates how to connect the awareness of our breath with focusing our mindfulness on a particular topic, such as dealing with an inferiority complex, recognizing negative thoughts and emotions, taking care of our sexuality, and seeing our ancestors within us. This puts readers in touch with the healing capacity of the present moment and provides a tool to transform even the most difficult and painful aspects of life into something joyful and healing. Reaching across all faith traditions, Small Bites teaches readers to live in a more grounded and sustainable way and offers mindfulness practices for daily life.

Born in 1948 in Germany, Annabelle Zinser received a PhD in history and politics and later trained as a massage therapist and Yoga teacher, fields she practiced and taught in for many years. During a journey to India in 1988 she participated in a Vipassana Meditation Retreat led by S.N. Goenka. Shortly thereafter she became a student of Ruth Denison from whom she received Dharma teacher transmission. She met Thich Nhat Hanh in 2000; became a member of his core practice community, the Order of Interbeing; and received transmission to become a Dharma teacher in Thich Nhat Hanh’s lineage in 2004. Thich Nhat Hanh bequeathed to her his urban practice center in Berlin, where she has led the practice since 2002.She is the recipient of the United Nation’s 2007 Outstanding Women in Buddhism award and lives in Berlin.