EPISODE · Jul 7, 2024 · 15 MIN
Facing Mortality: A Stoic Death Meditation
from The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks · host Jon Brooks
A guided meditation on the one certainty we spend most of our lives avoiding. Drawing on Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, this practice helps you sit with the fact of your own death, not to frighten yourself, but to loosen its grip and bring what matters back into focus.You will spend time with the fear itself, imagine the same life with ten years, one year, and one day left, and contemplate the long stillness on either side of a life. It does not end there. The practice closes by turning toward love and compassion, so you leave the sit softer rather than shaken. A heavier one, handled gently.Free 7-Day Stoic Challenge: stoicchallenge.coThe Stoic Vault: stoicvault.com
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A guided meditation on the one certainty we spend most of our lives avoiding. Drawing on Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius and Seneca, this practice helps you sit with the fact of your own death, not to frighten yourself, but to loosen its grip and bring what matters back into focus. You will spend time with the fear itself, imagine the same life with ten years, one year, and one day left, and contemplate the long stillness on either side of a life. It does not end there. The practice closes by turn...
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