Marcus Aurelius: 10 Meditations for When Everything Feels Heavy

Marcus Aurelius buried most of his children and still wrote himself the rules for staying calm. Here are 10 Stoic meditations from his journal, each with a practical exercise for the days when everything weighs on you. 0:00 For When Everything Feels Heavy 1:10 Meditation 1: At Dawn, Prepare for Difficult People 2:23 Meditation 2: Get Up to Do a Human Being's Work 3:33 Meditation 3: The Refuge You Carry Within 4:44 Meditation 4: Remove the Opinion, and the Harm Disappears 5:51 Meditation 5: The Obstacle Is the Way 7:02 Meditation 6: Don't Let Power Change You 8:11 Meditation 7: Live Each Day as Complete 9:11 Meditation 8: If It Hurts, You Can Erase It Now 10:23 Meditation 9: Stop Arguing About Being Good. Be Good 11:14 Meditation 10: Be Like the Rock 12:09 Still Standing 🔔 Subscribe for one stoic tool a day: new Shorts daily and a long video every day. 🎵 Music: "Deliberate Thought" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/) 📚 The books behind these ideas: • Meditations — Marcus Aurelius (Hays): https://www.amazon.com/dp/0812968255?... • Letters from a Stoic — Seneca: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140442103?... • Discourses and Selected Writings — Epictetus: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0140449469?... (As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.) #MarcusAurelius #Stoicism #Meditations