{"id":5784,"date":"2012-12-31T16:24:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-31T16:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/stoicismtoday\/?p=360"},"modified":"2012-12-31T16:24:52","modified_gmt":"2012-12-31T16:24:52","slug":"your-favourite-stoic-exercises-2-the-view-from-above","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colabstaging.co.uk\/msbackup\/your-favourite-stoic-exercises-2-the-view-from-above\/","title":{"rendered":"Your favourite Stoic Exercises 2) The View From Above"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The second most useful Stoic Exercise averaging \u00a0a 4.2 star rating (out of five) was the View from Above<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the description from the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.exeter.ac.uk\/stoicismtoday\/2012\/11\/22\/living-the-stoic-life-the-booklet\/\">Stoic Booklet\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Key text: <strong>Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.48.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><\/strong>\u00a0\u2018A fine reflection from Plato. One who would converse about human beings\u00a0should look on all things earthly as though from some point far above, upon herds,<\/p>\n<p>armies, and agriculture, marriages and divorces, births and deaths, the clamour of law\u00a0courts, deserted wastes, alien peoples of every kind, festivals, lamentations, and<br \/>\nmarkets, this intermixture of everything and ordered combination of opposites.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The Exercise:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The \u2018View from Above\u2019 is a guided visualization which is aimed at<br \/>\ninstilling a sense of the \u2018bigger picture\u2019, and of understanding your role in wider<br \/>\ncommunity of humankind. <!--more-->You might decide to listen to the View from Above first<br \/>\nthing in the morning, at a quiet point during the day (e.g. after lunch) or late in the<br \/>\nevening, perhaps even last thing at night. It can be listened to sitting or lying down.<\/p>\n<p>You can download a free recording of the <a href=\" https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/57729041\/viewfromabovestoicweek.mp3\">View from Above<\/a> (by Donald Robertson) at this<br \/>\naddress: <a href=\"b) The View from Above Key text: \u2018A fine reflection from Plato. One who would converse about human beings should look on all things earthly as though from some point far above, upon herds, armies, and agriculture, marriages and divorces, births and deaths, the clamour of law courts, deserted wastes, alien peoples of every kind, festivals, lamentations, and markets, this intermixture of everything and ordered combination of opposites.\u2019 Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.48. 19 The Exercise: The \u2018View from Above\u2019 is a guided visualization which is aimed at instilling a sense of the \u2018bigger picture\u2019, and of understanding your role in wider community of humankind. You might decide to listen to the View from Above first thing in the morning, at a quiet point during the day (e.g. after lunch) or late in the evening, perhaps even last thing at night. It can be listened to sitting or lying down. You can download a recording of the View from: https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/57729041\/viewfromabovestoicweek.mp3 \">https:\/\/dl.dropbox.com\/u\/57729041\/viewfromabovestoicweek.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The application below should also allow you to play the recording:<br \/>\n[soundcloud url=&#8221;http:\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/73341427&#8243; params=&#8221;&#8221; width=&#8221; 100%&#8221; height=&#8221;80&#8243; iframe=&#8221;true&#8221; \/]<\/p>\n<p>The New Year may be a particularly appropriate time to gain this cosmic perspective, so why not download and listen to the recording today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second most useful Stoic Exercise averaging \u00a0a 4.2 star rating (out of five) was the View from Above This is the description from the Stoic Booklet\u00a0 Key text: Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 7.48. \u00a0\u2018A fine reflection from Plato. One who would converse about human beings\u00a0should look on all things earthly as though from some point &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/colabstaging.co.uk\/msbackup\/your-favourite-stoic-exercises-2-the-view-from-above\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Your favourite Stoic Exercises 2) The View From Above&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[16,13,114,14,130],"class_list":["post-5784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stoic-week","category-uncategorized","tag-marcus-aurelius","tag-stoic","tag-stoic-exercises","tag-stoicism","tag-view-from-above"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colabstaging.co.uk\/msbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colabstaging.co.uk\/msbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colabstaging.co.uk\/msbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colabstaging.co.uk\/msbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colabstaging.co.uk\/msbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colabstaging.co.uk\/msbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colabstaging.co.uk\/msbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colabstaging.co.uk\/msbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colabstaging.co.uk\/msbackup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}