The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks

This is a guided meditation in the Stoic practice of premeditation of adversity. You will spend time imagining how much harder your life could be, and in doing so you will start to see how much you al...

25 Marras 202112min

Epictetus had clear advice on the two pulls that run most of our lives: what we want and what we are trying to avoid. This is a guided reflection on both. You will sit with the questions slowly. Is it...

18 Marras 20219min

We rarely see the things we crave plainly. We wrap them in a story, and the story is what hooks us. This guided reflection uses the Stoic practice of object deconstruction to strip that story back and...

11 Marras 20219min

Seneca met his death the way he had spent years preparing to. This guided visualisation places you inside his body on his last day, so you can feel your way through what he faced. It draws on premedit...

2 Marras 202114min

Stoicism can look paradoxical at first. We are told the outer world is not ours to control and that our energy belongs on the inner one. So where do goals fit? The Stoics were not against having goals...

20 Loka 20219min

I lived with intense anxiety for the better part of a decade. It sent me down a lot of rabbit holes in personal development and philosophy, and most of what I now teach came out of trying to find my o...

10 Syys 202115min

People often treat Stoicism as something you read rather than something you train. This episode is my attempt to lay out a more systematic way to actually practise it. It is a full talk I gave on The ...

7 Elo 20211h 9min

Welcome. This is The Stoic Handbook, where I share short lessons and guided meditations on using Stoic ideas in modern life. I am not a guru, just someone who has spent years testing this stuff and re...

1 Kesä 20213min