Simplicity Meditation

Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

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

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🗓️ 12 August 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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This is part 6 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 1891.
0:04.0	Welcome to the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:09.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I honor you for showing up for yourself today.
0:16.5	Meditating is one of the best things you can do
0:20.4	to have more peace, energy, and clarity in your life.
0:26.4	In today's episode, we continue along
0:30.4	with our series all about mental balance and in each episode this week you've
0:39.2	discovered a meditation technique and insight to help you achieve mental balance.
0:47.2	And I'm recording this series for you from Greece. And Greece is where it all began with Stoicism. The founder of Stoicism is
0:59.9	considered to be Zeno of Citius.
1:05.0	I hope I'm pronouncing that, right?
1:08.2	Zeno.
1:10.9	Came into this philosophy of Stoicism when he was shipwrecked and he lost all of the cargo. And this had a profound impact on his life. He realized how meaningless
1:32.1	possessions are and how much value
1:38.0	discipline is and living closer to nature.
1:42.0	And after he was shipwrecked he went to Athens Greece, which of course is a mecca,
1:50.4	especially during his time of philosophical thought and high thinkers.
1:57.0	And so he would go around the Agora, the gathering place there in Athens and go to the different stoas. Stoaas are the different
2:08.6	areas where the individual philosophers would meet with their students and he would listen to the
2:19.3	thoughts of the day and he came upon a different way of thinking about life. This transformed
2:27.7	him so much the exposure to this great thinking of the day in the Agora of Athens, Greece,
2:40.0	and the experience of having lost everything in a shipwreck that made him contemplate life in a unique way.
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