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.
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)
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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