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Daily Meditation Podcast

A Stoic Kindness Meditation, Day 1: "The Stoic's Gaze, Finding Opportunity Everyday"

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

Behappy, Mental Health, Meditation, Anxiety, Sleep, Mindfulness, Alternative Health, Guidedmeditation, Health & Fitness, Focus

4.1 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Be guided as you focus on the Stoic virtue of kindness. Life presents us with countless opportunities to extend compassion and understanding, even in challenging situations. This meditation will help us cultivate a mindset of kindness, transforming obstacles into moments of human connection.

THIS WEEK'S THEME: The Stoic's Gaze

Welcome to this week's meditation series: "The Stoic's Gaze: Perceiving Opportunity in All."

In each episode this week, you're guided with the mental tools to transform challenges into pathways for personal growth and virtuous living, directly inspired by Stoic philosophy. Each session focuses on a core Stoic virtue and offers practical techniques to shift perspective and find hidden opportunities within adversity.

The series begins by establishing the foundational Stoic understanding that external events are largely outside your control, but your responses and interpretations are entirely within your power. It emphasizes that challenges, rather than being mere obstacles, are opportunities to practice and strengthen Stoic virtues like kindness, patience, resilience, wisdom, courage, and self-control.

Each meditation session will guide you through a process of reframing your perception of challenging situations. You're invited to observe your initial emotional reactions without judgment, and then intentionally shift your focus to the potential for growth and virtue. The guided meditations will incorporate visualizations, affirmations, and contemplative practices that embody Stoic principles.

YOUR MEDITATION JOURNEY DURING THIS WEEK'S SERIES

This is episode 1 of a 7-day meditation series titled, "The Stoic's Gaze: Finding Opportunity Everyday" episodes 3283-3289.

THIS WEEK'S CHALLENGE: Opportunity Seeker Quest

Identify a situation that typically tests your patience and find a creative way to practice patience within it.

THIS WEEK'S MEDITATION TECHNIQUES:  

Day 1:  Become aware of the energy you give to your thoughts.

Day 2:  Affirmation, "There’s an opportunity in every challenge."

Day 3:  STOIC ANCHOR BREATH

Inhale: visualize your greatest strength. 

Exhale: visualize the qualities of your greatest strength circulating throughout your body.

Day 4:  Kubera mudra for a positive attitude

Day 5:  2nd chakra for opportunity

Day 6:  Layer Meditation Techniques

Day 7:  Reflection + Introspection  

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Each day's meditation techniques posted at:

A DIFFERENT MEDITATION TECHNIQUE EVERY DAY FOCUSED ON A WEEKLY THEME:

Get ready for an exciting journey with a new meditation technique daily, perfectly tailored to the week's theme! Infuse these powerful practices into the most stressful moments of your day to master difficult emotions. These dynamic techniques will help you tame the "monkey mind," keeping your thoughts from interrupting your meditation and bringing peace and focus to your life.

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***All meditations are Mary Meckley's original copyrighted content unless otherwise stated, and may not be shared without her written permission.
 
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**All of the information shared on this podcast is for your enjoyment only. Please don't consider the meditation techniques, herbal tea information, or other information shared by Mary Meckley or any of her guests as a replacement for any medical or psychological treatment. That being said, please enjoy any peace, energy, or clarity you may experience as you meditate.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to episode 3,283 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Meckley, and I welcome you to

0:10.6

day one of this week's series. We continue exploring ancient wisdom for modern life.

0:21.6

And in last week's series, you were guided with meditations reflecting on the hermetics.

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This is an ancient philosophy stemming from the Hellenistic period. Well, this week you will walk among the

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Stoics as you explore wisdom also stemming from the Hellenistic period by a different group

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of great thinkers, and it was founded in Athens, Greece, by Zeno of Scythium in the early

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third century BCE.

1:01.7

And the Stoics emphasized virtue, reason, and living in accordance with nature as the path

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to happiness and tranquility.

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The core belief of the Stoics was that virtue is the highest good.

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The Stoics believe that virtue, wisdom, justice, courage, and temperance is the only true good.

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External circumstances like wealth, health, or reputation are indifferent.

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They also emphasize controlling what you can by focusing on what's within your control, your thoughts and your actions

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and your judgments and accepting what is outside your control. These are external events and

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distractions and that's what you'll be guided to do in today's meditation. The Stoics also

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believed in living in accordance with nature. They believed in living rationally and in harmony

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with the natural order of the universe. And they understood that outside events are indifferent and that it should

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not affect your inner peace and that you can use reason and logic as tools for understanding

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and navigating the world there's been a modern day resurgence of stoicism,

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and one reason why is because it's relevant to modern stress, the stoic focus on managing

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your emotions and dealing with adversity and finding inner peace, just like you're doing here as you get ready to meditate.

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These resonate strongly with people facing the pressures of modern life.

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