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What You'll Miss When It's Gone: A Stoic Gratitude Meditation (Premeditation of Adversity)
What if the way into real gratitude is not positive thinking, but imagining loss?
In this 12-minute guided meditation I walk you through an old Stoic practice called praemeditatio malorum, the premeditation of adversity. Used by Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus, it trains you to appreciate what you have before it is gone.
We imagine a vivid scene: a sudden accident that changes everything. Not to be morbid, but to wake you up to how fragile and precious your life already is, your health, your freedom, the people you love, the simple ability to walk across a room. It is a way to feel…
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