HeyJaredThe Stoic Handbook by Jon Brooks
Jon Brooks' modern weekly guide to the best ideas in ancient Stoicism.
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The Vault is $99 for the year, until Sunday (opens the original)
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Dear fellow Stoic-in-training,This is a short one, and it’s about the Stoic Vault rather than a practice.The Vault is my paid community, where I teach Stoicism as something you practise. Over the last few weeks I’ve rebuilt it. There’s now a three-minute tour, a full catalogue of the courses, a short welcome audio that tells new members where to start, and a new course, The Stoic Flinch, on the gap between your first reaction and what you do next.Most people reading The Practice have never seen
The Stoic Pause: Respond Without Reacting (opens the original)
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You know how you want to handle anger. Then someone says the wrong thing, and you're already reacting.This 45-minute Stoic talk works through PAUSE: Perceive, Acknowledge, Unhook, Sort and Engage. It connects the Stoic distinction between an impression and your response with guided practice for emotionally charged moments, followed by questions from the original live session.Practise making room for the feeling while choosing what to do next. The feeling may still be there.Free 7-Day Stoic Chall
The Practice: A teacher who lets you question (opens the original)
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Stoic Sleep Practice: Full-Body Release Into Deep Rest (opens the original)
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A 13-minute guided sleep practice for nights when your body is in bed but the day is still moving through your mind.This slow full-body scan moves from the scalp to the toes, letting the jaw, shoulders, hands, hips and legs release into the mattress. There is almost no philosophy here, deliberately. Nothing to learn and nothing to solve.Put the phone down, get comfortable, and let the practice fade with you.Free 7-Day Stoic Challenge: stoicchallenge.coThe Stoic Vault: stoicvault.com
What the Stoic Vault is (opens the original)
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