Daily Stoic Premeditation of Adversity Meditation

This guided meditation offers a transformative practice based on the Stoic principle of premeditatio malorum, or the premeditation of adversity. It encourages you to actively confront sources of fear or loss, and even visualize worst-case scenarios to help live a more peaceful life. Leveraging five psychological mechanisms—habituation, decatastrophizing, modeling and rehearsing coping skills, eliminating surprise, and reversing hedonic adaptation—this technique helps you to appreciate what they currently have.

Reviews

Conscious processing of how lucky we are, and how preposterous and fragile that situation is, allows us to be aware that there are no guarantees, and inspires gratitude!
Thanks for the guidance, Jon!
Donna

Helpful “counter” perspective. I realized I’ve done some of the suggestions in this meditation at times over the years already so it’s good to know it’s not a bad thing so to speak.

Very interesting, thank you.

Really powerful and effective perspective shifter. I’ll come back to this one for sure. Thank you. 🙏

Full of wisdom. Really really insightful.