The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks

Stoic Meditation: Turning Judgment into Self-Reflection and Compassion

Jon Brooks

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The next time you catch yourself judging someone, this guided meditation turns that moment around and points it back at you, gently. Drawing on Marcus Aurelius, it walks you through noticing your own version of the fault you just spotted in someone else.

From there it moves toward self-compassion and then outward again, extending a little more empathy to the person you were quick to write off. The aim is not guilt. It is to use the small irritations of the day as material for becoming slightly wiser and kinder.

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