How To Make 2024 Your Best Year Yet, Getting Back To Fundamentals, And Season 2 Of The Zen Stoic Path

In this insightful episode, Victor shares what grounded him during a recent tough time and how he is getting back to daily fundamentals.

He discusses common attachments to thoughts that reality "should be" different, and how these cause suffering regardless of external progress made. Learn how embracing "what is" through methods like Byron Katie's can detach judgement and return us to peace.

Victor then shares the specific morning rituals, stretching, reading and breathing practices that center him daily. He also explains the powerful story of the Rainmaker which drove home the importance of being anchored in your core.

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Stay tuned for Season 2 coming in January 2024!

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Timestamps:

0:00 - Introduction
2:00 - Suffering is caused by attachment to thoughts
3:00 - Comparing reality to unrealistic expectations causes suffering

4:00 - Method for detaching judgments through self-inquiry
6:00 - Asking what activities make me feel centered

8:00 - The story of the Rainmaker (not timestamped)
10:00 - Realizing the importance of being centered

12:00 - Starting my day grounded with sunlight and dogs
13:00 - Daily full-body stretching while listening to books/philosophy

15:00 - Sitting still for 10 mins doing deep belly breaths
16:00 - Strength training uncomfortable positions
18:00 - Eating the foods that actually energize me
20:00 - Doing creative work and having great conversations