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Daily Meditation Podcast

Mary Meckley

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

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🗓️ 13 August 2019

⏱️ 9 minutes

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This is part 7 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 1892 of the Daily Meditation Podcast.
0:09.0	I'm Mary Meckley and I welcome you to the final episode of our seven part series all about
0:17.8	mental balance following the wisdom of the ancient Greek Stoics.
0:27.0	And I have been pretty excited to be in the land of the ancient Greek Stoics where it all started in Athens, Greece by
0:40.2	Zino. And I happen to be recording this episode on the Island of Miconos. I'm not so sure if the Stoics traveled here to Miconos, but I am ending this series here on this island.
1:02.1	And I have so enjoyed sharing this Stoic series with you while in Greece
1:09.0	because Stoicism is similar in many ways to meditation.
1:17.0	Meditation is all about connecting to your highest self and to do this daily, consistently, and it's also about feeling
1:30.2	connected to everything around you, nature in particular.
1:36.0	You explored the four cardinal virtues of the Stoics, which is also part of Greek philosophy, and that is prudence,
1:48.7	justice, fortitude, and temperance. These virtues are also what we strive for each time we
1:59.2	sit down to meditate. Both meditation and stoicism focus on not oneself, but rather focusing on how you can feel this connection and balance with others.
2:19.0	So many people in today's world where self-improvement books are flying off the shells,
2:30.0	self-improvement seminars and all these ways to hack our lives, to somehow find a
2:36.8	shortcut to make ourselves have more clarity to be fitter to have better relationships to do just about
2:48.6	anything possible better and it's always great to become your best because in doing so
2:59.3	you can make the world a better place. But sometimes when the interest is simply on becoming
3:11.0	better yourself, then you can lose a connection with others.
3:17.8	You can even start to feel superior to others. And so Stoicism and meditation both emphasize having a more heartfelt connection with the world around you and
3:39.6	especially others. The Stoics believed that you really were not successful or happy unless
3:48.8	you did your part to make the world a better place and by doing your part it meant
3:55.2	it's sharing your gifts with the world and this can only really be cultivated by knowing yourself well, making a study of your life
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