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A Year of Contemplation

Protect your Peace of Mind (Day 43)

2/12/2019

 
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Stoicism, and most practices that discipline one’s mind and perceptions, helps us manage and process our emotional reactions, as well as mitigate our responses to the triggers that set us off. These skills can be applied to all sorts of things: jobs that we feel trapped in and that raise our stress level, dysfunctional relationships, being an introvert in socially challenging situations… anything, really, can be worked through with power of a disciplined mind and spirit. 

But, what benefits would come from our disciplined minds if they weren’t only used to buffer us from crises? What if we set our minds up for a win, and get ourselves out of those situations instead of suffering them? We can only exist in stress-mode for so long before it becomes too much, and even our disciplined mind cannot help us. 

Keep constant guard over your perceptions, for it is no small thing you are protecting, but your respect, trustworthiness and steadiness, peace of mind, (liberation) from pain and fear, in a word your freedom. For what would you sell these things?” 
​(Epictetus, Discourses, 4.3.6b-8)

​We have to care enough about our spirits to not put them in damaging positions. 

No one can or will care about our peace of mind more than we can. 

Defend it as if it were a great treasure… because it is. 

(See y’all tomorrow)

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    Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind. 
    How things are structured can be found in the first post. 

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    Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove.  He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace. 

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