Exposure therapy, such as meditating on images of decaying corpses while repeating 'that is me,' can help individuals become desensitized to mortality.

“so what I make my students do is a nine-part meditation on their own failure catastrophic failure by their own terms which is not necessarily human catastrophic failure but there will be I remember the first”

“whether their their death fear is failure or cognitive decline or being forgotten or being irrelevant or actually dying the technique for getting Beyond this is really all the same and it comes from um that that I found very successful is to do what is called in Thea Buddhism the Marinis Sati meditation”

“what you're trying to do is what what psychologists would call exposure therapy you're exposing yourself to the inevitable truth like I heard you say Peter I'm gonna die okay fine fine fine I'm not gonna no think about it think about it why because that it it it loses its Terror when it becomes familiar”

“they stand in front of each one of the pictures each day and they say that is me while staring at the photograph and they wanted what they wanted to become is actually completely trivial and familiar that's what they want”

“so what I make my students do is a nine-part meditation on their own failure catastrophic failure by their own terms which is not necessarily human catastropic failure but there will be I remember the first time I did this I put the steps in because they didn't know how to do it and the first one is I'm falling behind my colleagues at school um I I graduate but just barely I'm not getting the job that my friends are getting and that people thought I was going to get um I'm finding I'm really my career is not what I thought it was going to be”

“whether their their death fear is failure or cognitive decline or being forgotten or being irrelevant or actually dying the technique for getting Beyond on this is really all the same and it comes from um that I found very successful is to do what is called in theava Buddhism the marinas Sati meditation”