Cultivating Change from Within, Day 7 Do Less Better: The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius Meditations
Daily Meditation Podcast
Mary Meckley
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🗓️ 21 October 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
This meditation centers on slowing down to synchronize with the present moment, fostering a sense of balance and connection.
This week, we launch into a series exploring the wisdom of doing less to be better. You're guided by the ancient wisdom of former Roman emperor and Stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius.
This is part 7 of a 7-part meditation series titled, Do Less Better: The Wisdom of Marcus Aurelius Meditations, Episodes 2973-2979.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Episode 2979 of the Daily Meditation Podcast. I'm Mary Mechley, and I welcome |
| 0:10.0 | you to Day 7, the final episode in the series we're exploring this week. This week you've |
| 0:18.8 | been guided with insight from Marcus Aurelius, the former Roman Emperor, and also a highly regarded |
| 0:28.8 | stoic. You've also had the challenge to do a one-minute mindfulness break every day and to try to |
| 0:39.6 | integrate that into your day on a regular basis. And I wonder how that's coming along for you. I hope |
| 0:48.0 | that you found a chance to give yourself a pause throughout your day. And this is what's so amazing |
| 0:56.8 | about Marcus Aurelius because he wrote this book, Meditations, which is so introspective and so |
| 1:07.2 | deep in regards to human nature. And he wrote it while he was Emperor of Rome. And I've been sharing |
| 1:15.8 | with you each day different challenges he faced during his reign. And they are numerous, including |
| 1:23.9 | a pandemic, plagues, wars. He spent a lot of his reign, camped out with his soldiers battling |
| 1:37.2 | invaders. So he didn't exactly live in luxury during a lot of his reign. There were also a lot of |
| 1:44.5 | uprisings from the lower classes who wanted more land and a better life. He faced conspiracies, |
| 1:55.2 | he faced betrayal, even from some of his own family members. So he experienced internal as well |
| 2:03.4 | as external threats and conflict on a regular daily basis. So he had a lot to occupy him. A lot of |
| 2:12.6 | things he could have really stressed about. You would never guess that someone who wrote this book |
| 2:19.2 | Meditations was experiencing all that as they wrote the book. I'm sharing with you each day quotes |
| 2:27.7 | from the book to reflect on as you're guided in a meditation. So Marcus Aurelius definitely fully |
| 2:38.7 | embodied doing less better because instead of stressing and becoming paranoid and fearful, |
| 2:51.3 | he embraced this notion of compassion and living his truth and daily reflection. This daily |
| 3:04.0 | reflection, I wouldn't be surprised if that was the reason why he became and embodied one of the |
| 3:15.4 | best rulers Rome ever experienced. In fact, many people claim he was the last best ruler |
| 3:24.9 | Rome experience because after his reign soon after Rome fell. So that is your insight for today. |
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