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ManTalks Podcast

Weekly Training: Practicing Memento Mori - The Awareness of Death

ManTalks Podcast

Connor Beaton

Relationships, Mental Health, Education, Society & Culture, Self-improvement, Health & Fitness

4.8591 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2020

⏱️ 21 minutes

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Summary

This week’s mini-episode is a personal one, and about one of the most ancient and powerful rituals we as humans can practice: memento mori--being mindful of the inevitability of death. I dive into how memento mori works as a contemplative practice, its history, and why it’s more than just some personal development tool. Modern culture works hard to avoid even the idea of death, to the point where we water down some our most compelling stories and ideas. Tons of time is spent on practically forcing light and joy and life. But death helps inform us of how we are living--right here, right now.  As always, let me know your take. Leave a rating or review and help us reach more people like you. Are you looking to find your purpose, navigate transition, or fix your relationships, all with a powerful group of men from around the world? Check out The Alliance and join me today.  Check out our Facebook Page or the Men's community. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts  | Spotify For more episodes visit us at ManTalks.com | Facebook | Instagram | Twitter    Did you enjoy the podcast? If so please leave us a review on Apple Podcasts or Stitcher. It helps our podcast get into the ears of new listeners, which expands the ManTalks Community Editing & Mixing by: Aaron The Tech See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to The Man Talk Show. I'm Connor Beaton. And today we're going to talk about leveraging

0:05.3

power of Momental Mori and really we're going to have a bit of a conversation about death,

0:11.2

which is maybe not the most exciting thing for some of us. But during these times of chaos and

0:19.0

panic and pandemonium and just everything that's happening in the world, a lot of people are sort of facing their fear.

0:29.1

And at the root of fear is often the fear of death, the fear of not having enough to survive, not being able to make ends meet, death of relationships,

0:40.5

death of people who we love. And many people are sort of meeting this fear. The way that life

0:48.2

used to look, right, death of the freedoms that we used to take for granted. the death of the routines and rituals of going out

0:56.3

into social settings. Many people are grieving forms of death, but maybe not calling it that,

1:01.7

forms of grieving a death of a work that they used to go into, a job or a company that they used to go

1:09.9

into. So there's many different forms of death

1:12.5

that people have been experiencing.

1:14.2

And whenever we experience major transitions like this,

1:17.3

we experience deaths of certain things, right?

1:20.2

Death of routines, death of structure in our life,

1:23.8

the death of how things used to look, used to feel. And for some of us, we are meeting death in a much more

1:30.9

direct way. We are having family members pass away and not being able to go and be with them

1:36.9

in their final hours due to the pandemic. And so there's a lot that has coming up around this

1:43.5

concept. And I've been seeing it

1:45.1

enter into many people's lives, businesses collapsing, careers, ending, relationships,

1:52.0

ending. And so there's a lot of, a lot of this transpiring. So I want to talk about this.

1:57.0

So Momentumori, it's a very interesting concept. You may have seen it popularized

2:01.4

by people like Ryan Holiday with the Daily Stoic. But I'm just going to break down what it is,

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