Meditation with Raphael

A guided meditation to let go of the ego, without fighting it. Part 5 of a 10-part series on love, connection and transcendence, inspired by Alan Watts, Marcus Aurelius and Barbara Fredrickson's Love 2.0. A grounded, secular meditation to loosen the grip of the self, see your worries in proportion and feel part of something bigger.

🧘 Join the WeHum app waitlist (the first 100 get $39/year for life): https://www.raphaelreiter.com/wehum

🤝 2027 Raphael Cohort, 10 places only (secure Stripe checkout): https://book.stripe.com/aFa7sL0ze00W3zca181oI05

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raphael.reiter

In this meditation:

Alan Watts called it the "skin-encapsulated ego": the feeling of being a little self inside a bag of skin, looking out at a world that's separate from us. The ego is useful, like a name tag. The problem is forgetting it's a tool and mistaking it for the whole story. Marcus Aurelius practised the "view from above", picturing the whole city, the crowds, the weddings and the markets, until his own worries looked smaller. And Fredrickson shows that threat makes us self-centred, while connection lets us see beyond the cocoon of our own interests. In this session, we practise holding the ego lightly and relaxing into the bigger picture.

This meditation is for you if you want to:
• Let go of ego and overthinking
• Stop taking everything so personally
• See your worries in proportion
• Feel part of something bigger
• Practice a secular, non-religious transcendence meditation

📱 About WeHum, my meditation app (out before the end of 2026):
• Build your own custom meditation and choose the length of the sounds and silences
• Every intro, outro and guidance recorded by me. No AI.
• Group and global meditations: see how many people are meditating with you, and from where in the world
• Free version, plus a premium version with the full library and no ads
Sign up for designs, the roadmap and early access: https://www.raphaelreiter.com/wehum

🌿 About the 2027 Raphael Cohort:
I work with a maximum of 10 people a year to deepen your meditation practice, live philosophy in a practical way, or simply have a support system for the year. Weekly 1:1s, daily support on a private channel, and a personal program for meditation and life. €50/week. The link closes once 10 people have signed up

→ https://book.stripe.com/aFa7sL0ze00W3zca181oI05

Questions? Just email me.

⏱ Chapters:
00:00 Announcements: WeHum app & 2027 Cohort
01:21 The ego, held lightly: the skin-encapsulated ego
03:31 Guided meditation
22:22 Closing reflection

📺 Love, Connection & Transcendence series (10 parts):

Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkz77jlFDE

Part 1: https://youtu.be/BTG9HTskNGs
Part 2: https://youtu.be/2OkW9wfey3I
Part 3: https://youtu.be/v9-Xw87MkKI
Part 4: https://youtu.be/yX61ztLU_n0

Subscribe for weekly guided meditations on mindfulness, Stoicism, love and inner peace: https://www.youtube.com/raphaelreiter

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A guided meditation for anxiety, calming the nervous system and feeling safe in your body. Part 4 of a 10-part series on love, connection and transcendence, inspired by Barbara Fredrickson's Love 2.0, Seneca and Epictetus. A grounded, secular meditation to quiet the inner alarm, soften tension and create the conditions for love and connection.

🧘 Join the WeHum app waitlist (the first 100 get $39/year for life): https://www.raphaelreiter.com/wehum

🤝 2027 Raphael Cohort, 10 places only (secure Stripe checkout): https://book.stripe.com/aFa7sL0ze00W3zca181oI05

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raphael.reiter

In this meditation:

Before love can happen, the body has to feel safe. Fredrickson calls a perception of safety the first precondition for love: when part of you feels threatened, connection simply isn't available. Our threat system is brilliant at spotting danger, but when we're anxious, lonely or hard on ourselves, it sees threats far more often than they're really there. Seneca wrote that we suffer more often in imagination than in reality, and Epictetus kept asking his students one question: what is actually in my control right now? In this session, we use meditation to tell the body "right now, you're safe," so that warmth and openness become possible again.

This meditation is for you if you want to:

• Calm anxiety and an overactive mind
• Feel safe in your body and settle your nervous system
• Let go of what you can't control
• Open up to connection again after stress
• Bring Stoic philosophy and mindfulness into daily life

📱 About WeHum, my meditation app (out before the end of 2026):

• Build your own custom meditation and choose the length of the sounds and silences
• Every intro, outro and guidance recorded by me. No AI.
• Group and global meditations: see how many people are meditating with you, and from where in the world
• Free version, plus a premium version with the full library and no ads

Sign up for designs, the roadmap and early access: https://www.raphaelreiter.com/wehum

🌿 About the 2027 Raphael Cohort:

I work with a maximum of 10 people a year to deepen your meditation practice, live philosophy in a practical way, or simply have a support system for the year. Weekly 1:1s, daily support on a private channel, and a personal program for meditation and life. €50/week. The link closes once 10 people have signed up.

→  https://book.stripe.com/aFa7sL0ze00W3zca181oI05

Questions? Just email me.

⏱ Chapters:
00:00 Announcements: WeHum app & 2027 Cohort
02:18 Safety comes first: calming the inner alarm
04:42 Guided meditation
22:39 Closing reflection

📺 Love, Connection & Transcendence series (10 parts):

Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkz77jlFDE

Part 1: https://youtu.be/BTG9HTskNGs
Part 2: https://youtu.be/2OkW9wfey3I
Part 3: https://youtu.be/v9-Xw87MkKI

Subscribe for weekly guided meditations on mindfulness, Stoicism, love and inner peace: https://www.youtube.com/raphaelreiter

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A guided meditation to transcend the ego and widen your circle of connection.
Part 3 of a 10-part series on love, connection and transcendence, inspired by Barbara Fredrickson's Love 2.0 and the Stoic philosopher Hierocles' circles of concern.
A grounded, secular meditation to quiet the "me, me, me" mind, soften self-absorption and make more room for others.

🧘 Join the WeHum app waitlist (the first 100 get $39/year for life): https://www.raphaelreiter.com/wehum

🤝 2027 Raphael Cohort, 10 places only (secure Stripe checkout): https://book.stripe.com/aFa7sL0ze00W3zca181oI05

📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/raphael.reiter

In this meditation:
Transcendence doesn't mean floating out of your body. It means the walls of "me" getting thinner, so there's more room for "we." Fredrickson's research shows that fear and stress narrow our world, while shared positive emotion literally expands our sense of self to include others. Almost two thousand years ago, the Stoic Hierocles pictured each of us at the centre of circles (self, family, friends, city, humanity) and taught that a good life means drawing those circles inward. In this session, we use meditation to loosen the grip of the ego, without destroying it, and practise widening the circle.

This meditation is for you if you want to:
• Quiet the ego and overthinking
• Feel less self-absorbed and more connected to others
• Overcome loneliness and feel part of something bigger
• Practise a secular, non-religious transcendence meditation
• Bring Stoic philosophy and mindfulness into daily life

📱 About WeHum, my meditation app (out before the end of 2026):
• Build your own custom meditation and choose the length of the sounds and silences
• Every intro, outro and guidance recorded by me. No AI.
• Group and global meditations: see how many people are meditating with you, and from where in the world
• Free version, plus a premium version with the full library and no ads

Sign up for designs, the roadmap and early access: https://www.raphaelreiter.com/wehum

🌿 About the 2027 Raphael Cohort:
I work with a maximum of 10 people a year to deepen your meditation practice, live philosophy in a practical way, or simply have a support system for the year. Weekly 1:1s, daily support on a private channel, and a personal program for meditation and life. €50/week. The link closes once 10 people have signed up.
→ https://book.stripe.com/aFa7sL0ze00W3zca181oI05

Questions? Just email me.

📺 Love, Connection & Transcendence series (10 parts):

Playlist:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLQpkz77jlFDE

Part 1: https://youtu.be/BTG9HTskNGs
Part 2: https://youtu.be/2OkW9wfey3I

Subscribe for weekly guided meditations on mindfulness, Stoicism, love and inner peace: www.youtube.com/raphaelreiter

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A guided meditation to feel connected, open the heart and remember you're not alone. Part 2 of the Love, Connection & Transcendence series, exploring "positivity resonance", the science of shared love from Barbara Fredrickson's Love 2.0, alongside Stoic philosophy and a grounded, secular approach to meditation.

🧘 Join the WeHum app waitlist (the first 100 get $39/year for life): www.raphaelreiter.com/wehum

🤝 2027 Raphael Cohort, 10 places only (secure Stripe checkout): https://book.stripe.com/aFa7sL0ze00W3zca181oI05?

📸 Instagram: www.instagram.com/raphael.reiter

In this meditation:
Who does love belong to? We say "my anxiety" or "her excitement", as if emotions are private property. But psychologist Barbara Fredrickson shows that love works differently. In moments of positivity resonance, three things rise together: a shared positive emotion, a synchrony between two bodies, and mutual care. That love doesn't belong to you or to them. It belongs to both of you. In this session, we breathe with the awareness that many people around the world are slowing down at the same time as you.

This meditation is for you if you want to:
• Feel more connected and less lonely
• Cultivate love, warmth and compassion
• Understand the science of love and connection
• Practise a secular, non-religious transcendence meditation
• Experience the calm of meditating together with others

📱 About WeHum, my meditation app (out before the end of 2026):
• Build your own custom meditation and choose the length of the sounds and silences
• Every intro, outro and guidance recorded by me. No AI.
• Group and global meditations: see how many people are meditating with you, and from where in the world
• Free version, plus a premium version with the full library and no ads

Sign up for designs, the roadmap and early access: www.raphaelreiter.com/wehum

🌿 About the 2027 Raphael Cohort:
I work with a maximum of 10 people a year to deepen your meditation practice, live philosophy in a practical way, or simply have a support system for the year. Weekly 1:1s, daily support on a private channel, and a personal program for meditation and life. €50/week. The link closes once 10 people have signed up.
→ https://book.stripe.com/aFa7sL0ze00W3zca181oI05?

Questions? Just email me.

⏱ Chapters:
00:00 Announcements: WeHum app & 2027 Cohort
01:42 Positivity resonance: the love between us
03:58 Guided meditation
27:08 Closing reflection

A guided transcendent meditation for love, connection and transcendence.
Part 1 of a 10-part series that explores love as connection, not as something you own.
A grounded, secular meditation to soften the ego, open the heart and feel less alone.

🧘 Join the WeHum app waitlist (the first 100 get $39/year for life): www.raphaelreiter.com/wehum

🤝 2027 Raphael Cohort, 10 places only (secure Stripe checkout): 
https://book.stripe.com/aFa7sL0ze00W3zca181oI05?

📸 Instagram: www.instagram.com/raphael.reiter

In this meditation:
What if love isn't a feeling you have, but a moment you share? Psychologist Barbara Fredrickson defines love as a "micro-moment of warmth and connection that you share with another living being." In this session, we use meditation to tune the instrument: to soften, settle the body, and become more available for those moments of connection off the cushion, in everyday life.

This meditation is for you if you want to:
• Feel more connected and less lonely
• Open your heart and cultivate love and kindness
• Quiet the ego and the overthinking mind
• Practise a secular, non-religious transcendence meditation
• Bring Stoic philosophy and mindfulness into daily life

📱 About WeHum, my meditation app (out before the end of 2026):
• Build your own custom meditation and choose the length of the sounds and silences
• Every intro, outro and guidance recorded by me. No AI.
• Group and global meditations: see how many people are meditating with you, and from where in the world
• Free version, plus a premium version with the full library and no ads
Sign up for designs, the roadmap and early access: www.raphaelreiter.com/wehum

🌿 About the 2027 Raphael Cohort:
I work with a maximum of 10 people a year to deepen your meditation practice, live philosophy in a practical way, or simply have a support system for the year. Weekly 1:1s, daily support on a private channel, and a personal program for meditation and life. €50/week. The link closes once 10 people have signed up.

→ https://book.stripe.com/aFa7sL0ze00W3zca181oI05?
Questions? Just email me.

⏱ Chapters:
00:00 Announcements: WeHum app & 2027 Cohort
3:47 Love, redefined: micro-moments of connection
06:45 Guided meditation
29:11 Closing reflection

📺 Love, Connection & Transcendence series (10 parts):

1. Love, Redefined · 2. Positivity Resonance · 3. From Me to We · 4. Safety Comes First · 5. The Ego, Held Lightly · 6. Love Is a Verb · 7. Interdependence · 8. We Come Out of Nature · 9. Love Begets Love · 10. Never Sit Alone

Subscribe for weekly guided meditations on mindfulness, Stoicism, love and inner peace: www.youtube.com/raphaelreiter

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