Welcome to the Commune podcast. My name is Jeff Krasno. Every Saturday, I publish a podcast

episode that provides a guided wellness practice. I feature a variety of modalities, including meditation,

stoic contemplation, and breathwork. Sometimes I will be your guide, and increasingly I will

pepper in master teachers from the commune library, including Jack Cornfield, Sharon Salzburg,

David G, and Michael Beckwith, among others.

Of course, you can access the entire treasure trove of commune teachers and thousands of accompanying

lessons by subscribing to our course platform.

You can try it for free for 14 days at onecommon.com slash trial.

These weekly short guided praxis will hopefully provide you with a foundation to develop a

regular practice. Today's exercise is a stoic practice titled Wanting What You Have.

And if your interest in stoicism is piqued, while you're in luck, I released an entire course of stoic meditations earlier this year.

This meditation doesn't need to take place in lotus pose or with burning sage,

wafting about the room. It is more of a contemplation. And personally, I love walking and working

through this practice. It does, however, necessitate quiet time and focused attention to have good results.

So only embark on it if you can fulfill these requirements. Despite the myriad differences,

we may have, all of humanity shares a common goal.

We all want to be happy.

And in our inexorable search, happiness can appear as something incessantly out there,

something that we are chasing.

We might think if only and only if I get that house with the gargoyle statuary or that lead

role in the rom-com or that dashing bachelor with the man bond. Well, well then I'll be happy. But of course,

once one does attain that thing, it doesn't take long for a shiny

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