The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
You've read the books. You know what Marcus Aurelius would do. But when life gets hard, the philosophy disappears. This podcast is for people who want to close the gap between knowing Stoicism and actually living it. New episodes every Monday.
The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
The 4 Most Important Mindfulness Tools to Build Focus
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Most of us treat meditation as something we do for ten minutes and then leave on the cushion. This episode is about the opposite: carrying mindfulness through the whole day, into your health, your relationships, the ordinary moments where you usually run on autopilot.
I get into why the mind is so addicted to thinking, why the meditation-app boom sells the practice as a kind of mental vitamin, and what Sam Harris took from his 10-day retreat. Joseph Goldstein's point lands hardest for me: the sitting is just the frame, the real practice is the rest of the day. I also share the prompt I keep coming back to, "What is here now when there is no problem to solve?"
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