The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
Oct 1, 2026 · 13 min · 5 segments
You keep returning to the reply that hasn't come, the decision someone else is making, or the conversation you wish had gone differently. This 13-minute guided meditation uses Epictetus's image of the…
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If closing them makes the thinking louder, leave them open and rest them on something dull.
Not a technique.
You are just unclenching for a minute.
You do not have to stop thinking about the thing.
It can stay in the room.
we are going to work on it directly.
Here is the honest answer.
The word you were given breaks the first step.
hamin.
It means the things that are up to us, not the things we control, up to us.
they're not, and the distance between them is important for this
Is that in your control or outside it? Take your work, your children, your marriage, the conversation you are dreading on any given day.
If closing them makes the thinking louder, leave them open and rest them on something dull.
Not a technique.
You are just unclenching for a minute.
You do not have to stop thinking about the thing.
It can stay in the room.
we are going to work on it directly.
Here is the honest answer.
The word you were given breaks the first step.
hamin.
It means the things that are up to us, not the things we control, up to us.
they're not, and the distance between them is important for this
Is that in your control or outside it? Take your work, your children, your marriage, the conversation you are dreading on any given day.
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