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What The Daily Stoic Says About Meditation
85 episodes about meditation
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Key Insights on Meditation
Just five minutes of daily meditation for 30 days produces measurable reductions in depression, anxiety, stress, and inflammatory markers like IL-6
- The anxiety felt during early meditation practice is 'lactate of the mind' - discomfort that drives beneficial neural adaptations
- Teachers who practiced five minutes daily meditation improved their students' standardized math scores significantly - flourishing is contagious
- The Dalai Lama meditates four hours daily but still sleeps nine hours nightly, showing meditation doesn't replace sleep
- Meditation changes brain connectivity, particularly in the superior longitudinal fasciculus connecting prefrontal and parietal regions
- Meditation involves turning pain into the meditation object rather than trying to eliminate suffering
- Physical sensations in the body provide the easiest entry point for working with emotional pain through meditation
- "Nothing is more pathetic than people who run around in circles delving into the things that lie beneath" - Marcus Aurelius in Meditations
Episodes
What Our Fathers Teach Us, For Better Or Worse | Tom Junod
How To Love Your Country Without Lying About It | Ty Seidule
Recognize These Signs of Weakness | 7 Daily Habits That Will Change Your Life
BONUS | Not Everything Has To Be Productive (with Chris Guillebeau)
The Terror of Knowing What The World Is About | Try The Other Handle
You Can’t Help But Leave a Piece | Ask Daily Stoic
A Sense of Urgency. A Sense of Urgency. | Practice True Joy
They Give You Direction for Life | The Stoic Secret to Finding Real Joy
This is What Money Is Jealous Of | The Stoic Is A Work In Progress
How To Think Better in the Age of AI (From the Stoics)
Gavin Newsom on Ego, Power, and Stoicism
This Is How You Release Your Anxiety | Quality Over Quantity
How Much Is Left? | The Stoic Protocol for Your Next Zoom Call
The Stoic Code General Mattis Lives By
No, This Is The Mission | Kindness Is Always The Right Response
It Can Change Everything | A Real-Life Example of How to Build a Coaching Tree
We Owe It All To Them | What Marcus Aurelius Learned From His Mother
Rock Bottom, Recovery, and Starting Over at 40 | Jon Gustin
BONUS | 6 Stoic Rules of Arete (Excellence)
It Can’t Think About You | How to Be a Better Friend, According to the Stoics
This is the Part To Love | How a Stoic Deals with Obnoxious People
When Your Passion Is Master of Your Reason… | We Are a Product of Our Habits
40 Hidden Lessons From Marcus Aurelius' Meditations
What Comes After Surviving the Unthinkable | Kyle Carpenter
BONUS | Ryan Holiday's Response to Ivanka Trump
What You Need is a Small Crisis | Show, Not Tell, What You Know
Why Are You Surprised?
Marcus Aurelius's Rules for Living a Better Life
It’s Right There. Take It. | Stoic Lessons Hidden in Bruce Springsteen Songs
Nothing Is As Encouraging As This | The Freedom of Contempt
Books on meditation
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