meditations

Fake stoics? — At the end of a huge meltdown, this guy proceeds to angrily shout "read about stoicism!!!" at me, after starting a fight from thin air and clearly not practicing stoicism at all in that moment or in h…

My arguments against manifestation — 1. **Maladaptive daydreaming proves that manifestation isn't real**; Manifestation doctrine teaches that what you focus on expands and manifests in your physical reality. Do not split hairs and try to…

Manifestation coach hired me and fucked me over — Hi everyone, this is my first post here and I’m writing because I’ve exhausted every other option. And I am FUCKING DONE WITH IT. I hope some of you will see this and help me to hold that person accou…

Workshop On Sunday, July 20th: Basics of Attachment Repair Meditation: donation based. — This course will cover the basics of Attachment Theory and Attachment Repair Meditations. There will be a strong emphasis on the meditation practice [https://attachmentrepair.com/online-events/2025-…

does anyone know of any meditations that focus specifically on calming/healing anxious attachment? — sometimes i feel like ill get my attachment issues triggered by something random and then spiral. im trying to not do this or at least handle it better. i also wanna get back into meditation. does any…

I earned secure attachment in 4 months... — I can't believe I'm writing this. I did this without dating a secure person and without spending money on courses/apps. I promise I'm not selling anything. Big disclaimers: * I am only mostly secure…

Half Day Meditation Workshop For Anxious Preoccupied and Fearful Preoccupied: Focusing on the sense of "unpredictable threat" or "uncaused anxiety', this Sunday 7th of December 2025, Donation based. — Half day meditation workshop on healing "anxiety without cause". It's this Sunday December 7th 2025. Donation based. If you can't make a donation due to finances then you can apply for a scholarship…

True kindness is displayed under circumstances where being unkind would have been justified. — I am currently reading Marcus Aurilleus' *Meditations* as my first Stoic book. > When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, …

Experiences With Cosmic Entities. — Hello everyone! This post will be a little bit different, as i wish to dive into odd encounters that i had with different beings, that surprisingly helped me out a *lot* - more than i could have possi…

My first week with the Gateway Tapes — I am so grateful that I have been able to experience what I have already and I wanted to share. I’ve been doing guided meditations for astral projection for some time now with limited results. Last w…

What can 'normal' people do to bring open contact a step closer? — I wonder what 'normal' people, like most of us here I assume, can do to help bring open contact a step closer? Do we have any agency in these matters? If so what do people here feel we can do or wh…

Spring Cleaning and Change — Currently, the biggest benefit for me since the new year has been discarding items. I've gotten into a bad habit of stockpiling possessions in one room and eventually thinking I would take action on t…

I persisted when the 3D showed me the opposite and got my SP — So for context Sp and I have been in an on and off situation-ship for a year now due to my wavering self concept. (That is the old story I am no longer identifying with) anywho. My self concept real…

A couple great tips for easier Revision. — Revision is an extremely important yet underrated technique. After going through an event that "future" manifesting just wouldn't solve, I knew the only thing that would fix this situation is to chang…

Mugwort & Lucid Dreams — Let me start off by saying, you can take this as a “how to” guide or a warning, honestly either way works. So in 2020, I was obsessed with having lucid dreams. I did the YouTube meditations, never w…

Farewell — In the last two years, I have posted to this group a few times. Last year, I posted ([“Here’s the thing: you’re dying, too.”](https://www.reddit.com/r/Stoicism/comments/1ifz1cr/heres_the_thing_youre_…

Something mentioned but not talked about, Serotonin. — What do we know about Serotonin? \-Its produced in the gut, \-Low levels often correlated to anxiety and depression \-Happy hormone, not to be mistaken with dopamine , the pleasure hormone where …

I feel like I'm missing the point of Epictetus. — I'm currently reading Epictetus's Discourses and Selected Writings, and I'm having a really hard time. I feel like I'm missing the point half the time, and I'm Googling words or context in almost ever…

Breaks are as important as the attempt - from an experienced shifter ⋆˚꩜.ᐟ — hi gorgeous souls! I have seen some posts about people feeling demotivated after a lot of failed shifting attempts and I wanted to give a bit of advice on how to navigate this as somebody who used t…

what finally got me to shift - I broke my mind ⋆˚࿔ — I used to be the person who would try to shift every single night and wake up crying from a failed attempt because I was so frustrated with the fact that I wasn’t shifting. I thought that I fully be…

What does Marcus Aurelius mean by “misfortune” and “good fortune” in Meditations 4.49? — I’m having trouble understanding what Marcus Aurelius means by “good fortune”/"good luck" and "bad luck"/“misfortune” in *Meditations* 4.49. From Robin Waterfield translation: >Be like a headland: th…

I wanted to discuss letters 3 to 5 of Moral Letters. — I just finished letters 3 to 5 of Letters From a Stoic by Seneca.  I wanted to summarise what I got from them, and talk with y'all about the parts I didn’t fully understand. If I misrepresented or mis…

Meditation hasn’t worked for me — I’ve tried meditation for years. I used to do simple breath work, I tried frequencies binaural beats etc, and for a while I did transcendental meditation. None of them helped me. So recently just a f…

How do I deal with a non-virtuous past that led to a good and comfortable present? — Hello everyone, In the past months I have been studying Stoicism (I have read the Discourses, Meditations, and now I’m on my way through the Seneca letters). I, however, wanted to have an opinion on s…

Gut issues during spiritual growth? — Hi I was seeking some advise regarding a health issue ife been experiencing for a few years which doesnt seem to be getting better. Ive been diagnosed with Ulcerative colitis. Over the last few yea…

Strange body sensation while tripping- anyone else felt this? — During the peak and come down of my last couple of trips I’ve felt this really curious sensation in my body. It is hard to describe, but it sort of feels like I can hear all the “machinery” in my body…

Orange orb — Hello! I’ve been seeing an orange orb like thing during gateway meditations, and it started showing up very often. I started calling it, and it would show up immediately in the middle of my field of v…

Meditation to binaural beats — I'm a meditator of daily practice, and not long ago someone in this community recommended that I meditate with Schumann resonance sounds, and I have have been doing that. It has made a huge difference…

Binaural beats — Meditation to binaural beats I'm a meditator of daily practice, and not long ago someone recommended that I meditate with Schumann resonance sounds, and I have have been doing that. It has made a hug…

Schopenhauer's cessation of striving and Marcus Aurelius's cognitive clearing: is there a Stoic equivalent of deliberate emptying before decision-making? — Schopenhauer argues that the continuous striving of the individual will produces only horizontal progress, and that the complete cessation of that striving opens a qualitatively different kind of perc…

The Most Shifting Symptoms I've ever felt listening to a guided meditation — I'm actually pretty excited to talk about this because I've literally Felt things I'VE NEVER EVER FELT BEFORE IN MY 20 YEARS LIVING!!! I've got into shifting and started actually trying it a lot mor…

I can't stop APing on accident and want to stop — Around 6-8 months ago, I was really into the idea of astral projecting. I tried for months with meditations and sounds, but nothing came of it. A few weeks after I stopped trying, I APed and had one o…

My dad used to try and make me relax and get rid of all thoughts, what was he doing? — My dad is a pretty spiritual person, and when I was a teen he’d sometimes try to get me try different meditations with him. We often had late night talks where we’d share perspectives on it and just c…

Which mental health apps have you found to be very helpful? — been trying online therapy after having awful experiences with in-person therapists. honestly it's been way less awkward doing it from home. started with Headspace but it felt too generic. like guided…

Why did I have such amazing experiences when I first started and now it seems to have gone quiet — When I first started Gateway it was life changing. I felt like my spirit was soaring. As I progressed I felt like beings of love and light were coming to me and manipulating my energy. They filled me …

how do you use asleep methods correctly? — i don't know why, but every time i try an asleep method (i don't like listening to meditations with earphones so i just kind of say the meditation i memorized by myself, in this case the train method)…

I want to more advanced meditations, where to start ? — Huy guys 🫡 Iv been meditating for 2 months by now, i tried couple different meditation types , trataka, yoga nidra, shunya. All of them i found out about from podcasts. Despite trying them all my g…

What method to stick to? Help pls :/ — Hello! Thank u for reading firstly… So I’ve been trying to shift for a while now and I have tried meditations like Raven method or just mediating and pretending I’m in my DR then falling asleep and h…

Healed so hard that my iphone face ID doesn’t recognize me anymore? — Is this actually a thing?😅I’ve done EMDR therapy, Joe Dispenza meditations, and overall energy work, chakra and trying my best to be the best version of myself since about 6 months ago. Now my iphone…

I don’t like group meditations — Anyone else feeling the same? I feel like I absorb the energies around me way too fast and I started to get headache. It was very intense for me, I felt like I was cut off open next to strangers and i…

Welcome! Read Me First. — # Welcome to r/Stoicism. This community exists for serious discussion of Stoic philosophy. It is not a forum for general self-help, motivation, validation, or professional therapy. It is also not a p…

Question about specific parts of some methods… — Attempting to shift for about four months and I’ve had one definite shift (albeit short lived) in that time… The thing is, I’m having a difficult time with a method that seems like it would work. I…

what do orbs look like? — hello all! ive been an experiencer for a long time and had several contacts with nhi within my mind and dreams. previous to this ive only had one f2f where i saw nothing but experienced an intense act…

Tried daydreaming after my meditation, it was awesome — Admittedly, I normally finish my meditations and then go right back to my phone, but I decided I'd just stay there after my meditation and see how it felt to daydream. Since the meditation had cleare…

Marcus Aurelius wrote "look inward" constantly. What's the thing about yourself you suspect you still can't see? — Something I keep coming back to in the Meditations is how often Marcus talks about self-examination. Not once as an exercise, but as a daily discipline. "Look within. Within is the fountain of good, a…

Cannabis during meditation? — Does anyone occasionally use cannabis for deeper meditations? I don’t mean frequent users. I mean low tolerance people occasionally using it to go deeper? I used to smoke daily for years but I’ve stop…

Meditation laying down — I have transitioned my meditations from sitting legs crossed, to laying down. I genuinely have found meditation laying down, is much more relaxing and comfortable. I am able to enter presence much qui…

My complete astral projection system explained — Hey everyone! Before I share my system, I want to give a bit of context. I’ve been practicing astral projection for about 26 years now. A few years back, I wrote a book where I shared my experiences,…

Individuals who establish ET contact stabilize and prepare the collective field of humanity for contact — https://preview.redd.it/v3y8tbq7o7tg1.jpg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5e1a6af78106bc319602e0258747e9368ad77795 I wanted to share some methods here on how people can go experiment to see if they…

Aaron Poochigian’s translation? — Has anyone read Aaron Poochigian’s translation of Meditations? I understand it is a recent published work of his. I’m curious how it compares to the flavor of other contemporary translations like Robi…

Ah I c haha, sorry. Well honestly might be better off apart than together it sounds like. I have never done AP following a guide but I've meditated a lot for the past 12 years (almost every night bef…

Thank you ❤️ I am not sure what wording you prefer, but you can post anything like this: - Rayu deserves to be paid for the meditations you’ve sold. You talk about manifestation and abundance, pay t…

It's not a workbook, but "Anxiously Attached" by Jessica Baum has a lot of questions to reflect on and guided meditations. When she asks questions in the book and in the meditation I would pull out my…

Most likely fear of losing something is a trauma response. The fear is in our subconscious mind “we don’t deserve it” it’s there before, during and after manifesting. A lot of teachers recommend to l…

Text of original post by u/begoniapansy: sometimes i feel like ill get my attachment issues triggered by something random and then spiral. im trying to not do this or at least handle it better. i also…

There are free guided meditations on attachmentrepair.com. A lot of them are “ideal parent” meditations in which you imagine an ideal parent (instead of the ones you had) taking care of you when you w…

I totally get where you’re coming from. I used to feel the same way, like every little cue was a siren, and I had to act immediately to fix it, even when I knew logically that nothing was wrong. What …

There’s an app called Attached: Attachment Healing that has done more for me than therapy or reading, though both of those are also important. The responsive journaling and personalized guided meditat…

As a reference the website referenced above is [attachmentrepair.com](http://attachmentrepair.com) Here is a link to free guided attachment repair meditations: [https://attachmentrepair.com/meditati…

>*In order to move on, you need to not only stop feeling sorry for yourself,* *but also stop feeling sorry for the world.* *That is forgiveness in its essence.* *To give up a certain lens to see…

This post has so much information! I really like the charts. In the past I was mostly anxious avoidant with some avoidant tendencies. I've been in a healthy relationship for a year and I believe I'm …

This 👆🏻literally this right here! I have been learning about thinking traps myself lately and it’s exactly as you described. Learning to require the brain or exercise that brain muscle of rethinking…

Made an Interactive App for Reading "Meditations" Like re-reading Marcus Aurelius' "Meditations" and find Gregory Hays’s translation good and accessible, but in my view Meditations was meant to b…

A tool for "Digital Hypomnemata" I’ve been practicing Stoicism for a few years, but my biggest struggle has always been the gap between reading The Enchiridion in the morning and actually applying it…

- ACA's Loving Parent Guidebook (workbook) - in conjunction with the program/ meetings - Attachment Disturbances in Adults (textbook) - Ideal Parent Figure meditations

Find a therapist that specializes in EMDR, internal emails systems and attachment theory. My therapist is skilled at all three and I’ve had a lot of success. I also completed David Yaring’s “Leaving …

I love Michael Sealey so much ! I’ve listened to so many of his meditations when I can’t sleep but have never seen this one. Thank you

This is super common, and the ruminating over it could be part of the anxious attachment that’s still there. Time will help, but if I may id suggest meditating. There are tons of great meditations bas…

I've been looking into Ideal Parent Figure stuff too, and have done a couple meditations around that. Thanks for the link, I'll check this out. I have some understanding of eastern spirituality and n…

Been studying Stoicism for a while and wanted a way to "consult" Marcus Aurelius when working through difficult situations. So I trained a chatbot exclusively on Meditations (Hays translation) plus so…

I'm currently doing the Attachment Repair online course (so far we're doing Ideal Parent Figure + somatic meditations).

You can find some immediate relief AND address the core wounds by doing Ideal Parent Figure meditations.

# I, 37F, am struggling with boundaries, jealousy, and my 48M partner’s friendship I’m wrestling with complicated feelings about a medicine retreat my partner of 6 months wants me to attend this summ…

Seneca's Epistle 1: A "Historical Restoration" for Modern Practitioners (Lodge/Gummere Synthesis) **The Content:** I hear you on the translations, u/Fragrant-Point-4328. I've been working on a rest…

I can't name anyone in particular but I do a lot of gimmicky meditations that my mom sends me, like archangel meditation type stuff, and one of them did mention that one shouldn't share what's sacred …

Maybe imaginal work could help. There are meditations for perfect nurtures and ideal parent protocol. Maybe creating a really nurturing scenario of being held, getting your needs met, etc could help. …

i think the line is whether you're choosing not to react or whether you're pretending you don't feel anything. those are two very different things. like Marcus Aurelius was clearly going through it i…

Do you have any guided meditations you can suggest?

That takes incredible discipline. I felt a difference in 30 mins or hour meditations.

Look into meditation classes or group meditations.

I teach adults and teens to create a line of energy from the bottom of their first chakra to the chakras at the center of the planet. This is powerful and solves a lot of energy problems. Whatever s…

That's true. Take the support from a group or groups that include lead meditation. Even a Hatha Yoga class is very powerful. You don't have to do this alone. I usually go back to the Quaker Meditation…

1. read this at first as “telepathy” 2. i like teletherapy better bc i’m more willing to do it if all i have to do is log on & it gives me the ability to go off screen for things like guided meditatio…

That is exactly it! When we speak of separating impressions vs judgements this is exactly what it looks like. That is a very good observation! So now, try to identify where and how your judgement c…

I sort of stumbled across a primitive version of the dichotomy of volition on my own and went looking for related philosophies. Found a quote of Marcus Aurelius' summary of the Three Disciplines and r…

The feeling is one of flow state. Sometimes that comes easily and sometimes it doesn’t come at all. It’s not 100% in our control, so we just need to show up and do our best. One thing to note is to…

I started reading the Stoics about 6 years ago. I had taken a couple of philosophy classes in college, but I wasn't familiar with the Stoics. I began with a gifted copy of Meditations (I later reali…

I’m in the same boat as you, what has helped me a tiny bit is getting a part time job ( one that i dont want to do but im still grateful tor, cause i can see some money in my account ), joe dispenza m…

Having the same problem as you. It's impossible for me to purchase. You might consider YouTube even when the sound quality is bad and also the most important thing 😔 Expand App has lots of free res…

This is probably the most important question in Stoic practice and honestly most people get it wrong in both directions. The original concept, apatheia, never meant the absence of feeling. It meant fr…

I did the beta program, so im not sure if this version is any different but the tapes are in the form of a video and its not downloadable. You need a stable internet connection to listen. This was my …

The Expand app has individual meditations and exercises, guided by Monroe Institute trainers. This program is basically the same experience you get when you go to the retreat center in person. The exe…

Is frequency not necessary then? How can I talk to my higher self...ive been trying that too using guided meditations and without it...can you show me an effective method

Does this include the patterning meditations? I’m new and have only read lightly about patterning. Is that part of the course or separate?

Start with guided meditations first focused on inner child healing with anxious attachment. Perhaps with a professional. If you already have experience with self therapy; start with Breathwork to get…

I'd say it depends entirely on how you are planning to meditate during those hours I usually dont push further than 20mins per session bcs I start to get distracted a lot or wanting it to end quick,…

This is actually true. Sometimes, my 20 min meditations feel better than my 45 min ones. It all depends on the day and how good I am with my concentration and keeping present.

I hold the opposite opinion. Well respected teachers from millennial old traditions (Tibetan Buddhism, Kashmir Shivaism, etc) pretty much always lead us in one hour meditations. In my personal exp…

No, I have not seen someone stay in that highly aware state permanently. It's inconvenient as hell, LOL! Our bodies demand our attention. If we don't give it, our bodies can go sideways in life. We'…

So long as you have a plan to engage your mind? The whole point is to stop engaging...??? Try the retreats on the Waking Up app. I really enjoyed the 4-Hour one. Or the longer meditations section. Or …