Becoming a Better Person

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

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

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🗓️ 11 August 2019

⏱️ 8 minutes

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This is part 5 of a 7-part Mental Balance with the Stoics Meditation Series, episodes 1886-1892. For full guided meditations, give our new sip and om app a test drive for 2 weeks free. Receive access to 1,800+ fully guided meditations customized around a weekly theme. Select from over 200 series to fit your mood with a Clarity Journal and a Slow Down Guide customized for each theme. Brand new themes are introduced each week with brand new meditations offered daily. Connect with other meditators on the private Facebook group for app subscribers. All meditations are created by Mary Meckley and are her original content unless otherwise specified. Please request permission to use any of Mary's content by sending an email to [email protected]. Resources: Music by Christopher Lloyd Clarke and Greg Keller.

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0:00.0	This is episode 1,890 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:07.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you back to our series this week all about mental clarity with the ancient Stoics.
0:18.8	And in this week's series I'm coming to you from Greece the birthplace of Stoicism and
0:28.2	throughout this week's series you have discovered some insight as to how to apply some of the virtues of the Stoics to your own life and in today's episode I will
0:51.5	share with you a virtue of the Stoics that has to do with fortitude.
1:01.0	So you've explored throughout the series so far prudence, justice, and today the third
1:11.7	virtue is fortitude and when you think about fortitude think about your inner strength because it takes a lot of inner strength to sit down to meditate each day.
1:32.0	It's showing up for yourself day. It's showing up for yourself day in and day out that provides the benefits of
1:40.1	meditation such as more peace, energy, and clarity.
1:46.0	And the Stoics knew that this kind of daily consistency
1:52.0	also brought results about in your own life.
1:57.0	And when they considered fortitude, that included not just pursuing virtues and becoming the best person you could be so that you would be happier, but rather the Stoics believed
2:21.6	that Stoicism pursuing the virtues daily was how they lived their lives. It was about something bigger than themselves. It was about
2:38.5	including nature and the world at large in their plan of life.
2:49.3	So one thing they did and encouraged was daily reflection. And in every final episode of a series, I share
3:01.7	with you a reflection over the week so that you can begin to build this kind of
3:09.6	awareness and these virtues in your own life will the Stoics encouraged a daily reflection.
3:19.5	It was a way for them to improve, to notice where they were successful, what was working really
3:29.7	well for them in their lives, and also how they could improve areas where they still
3:37.6	struggled where they felt challenged or areas where they maybe made mistakes or felt like they failed.
3:47.0	They would approach these areas with great care to become better.
3:56.0	And again, it wasn't better for themselves.
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