Home Base

(c) Andrew Safer 2014 Stirring the milk into my morning tea, I’m thinking about taking a shower. And then there’s the e-mail I have to send about the project that has been dragging on too long. As I bound up the stairs, tea sloshes on the floor as I head for the shower. Maybe if …

Foundations for Meeting Life’s Challenges

© Andrew Safer 2014 Relationship troubles, bills to pay, job stress, your child is going through a rough spot and you’re trying to figure out how you can help. What does mindfulness have to do with all that? It seems like there’s the tidiness of our mindfulness practice and the messiness of the rest of …

Letting Go

(c) Andrew Safer 2014 “Meditation is about taking what comes, giving it appropriate reverence, and learning to let it go, to lose attachment to it. So that’s the practice.” You would expect to hear this from a Buddhist monk or meditation teacher, but this was Mark Bertolini, the Chairman and CEO of Aetna, Inc., the …