Building Stoic Mindfulness (Episode 55)
Stoa Conversations: Stoicism Applied
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How to Train Your Awareness With Mindfulness Meditation
The thought would be to use meditation as a gym for building up that mental muscle of awareness and then taking that with you through your day. So you can notice what's going on around you, what’s going on in your mind. And from the stoic perspective, notice the judgments you are makingNotice how other people are acting so you can do the right thing with respect to them. There's these practices of focusing on the breath or some other mindfulness objects. You can do this while counting and noticing how it's actually quite difficult to count without any sense of distraction.
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