Facing Mortality: A Stoic Death Meditation

Most advice for overthinking has you focus on the thoughts themselves. Journal them. Replace negative ones with positive ones. Breathe. Meditate. Run. But what if the thoughts aren't the problem?Epictetus taught that it's not events that disturb us, but our judgements about them. ...  عرض المزيد

Watch the video version of this podcast here: https://youtu.be/cY4AMcWhSko---For most of my adult life, I had this low-level hypervigilance running in the background. I tried everything to fight it — books, breathwork, control techniques, willpower. The harder I fought, the worse ...  عرض المزيد

This episode explores how anxiety can quietly hold us back from the things that matter most—and how Stoic wisdom offers a path through it.Drawing on insights from Epictetus and Marcus Aurelius, we look at how changing our judgments, not just our circumstances, empowers us to act ...  عرض المزيد

Dr. Rick and Forrest are joined by Mingyur Rinpoche, a renowned Tibetan Buddhist teacher, to explore calming anxiety with awareness, relaxing unhealthy wanting, and finding a deeper sense of our innate goodness. Rinpoche shares how a near-death experience during his four-year “wa ...  عرض المزيد

This episode turns to two of the Stoics’ deepest insights: that everything outside us is in constant motion, and that within us lies a freedom nothing can touch.Using Zeno’s vision of happiness as “a good flow of life,” we explore how change and death are not disruptions but esse ...  عرض المزيد

How to boost your psychological immune system, the stoic way.

William "Bill" Irvine is the emeritus professor of philosophy at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio.  He is the ...