Morning meditation.
When you wake up in the morning, go ahead and tell yourself that " the people i will deal with today will be ungrateful, meddling, dishonest, filled with jealousy, surly and arrogant. They are like this because they can not tell good from evil. But i have seen the beauty of good, and the image of evil filled with ugliness, and have recognized that the evil has a nature related to my own - not the same blood and birth, but the same mind and possessing a share of the divine. So in reality, no one can actually hurt me. This was said by Marcus Aurelius.
Contemplate on the day ahead and send your mind front in advance to meet all the unexpected tragedies to fully prepare yourself for it. That way it not many things can ever be unexpected to you.
Premeditatio Malorum.
It is only the surprise and the novel of the thing which makes that misfortune terrible which by pre meditation might be made easy to us. For that which some people make light by sufferance, others do by foresight. This was said by Seneca.
Identical to the morning meditation, meditate and picture all the unfortunate things that are possible in the day ahead. The more the unexpected occurs, the more it hurts us. We are able to minimize our pain by being fully prepared for everything when we do a Premeditatio.
Contemplating the Sage.
“ I owe it to the gods that i came to know Appolonius, Rusticus, Maximus. That i recieved a clear impression of what a life live according to Nature might consist in” again said by Marcus Aurelius.
Contemplate on all the qualities present into someone you admire and ask yourself frequently, how would Marcus have reacted in the same position you are in now? Marcus Aurelius excelled in his character because he had good teacher and he was a great learner.
View from above.
Take a view from above whenever you are distressed by something and you will realize how small your problems are in this big picture. In this vast ocean of being, what a minute dot our whole earth seems. We are nothing but grains of sand, our problems appear even more small. No matter how hard the situations are, there is always something to be grateful for in life. Be grateful for this very moment itself.
