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Ten Stoic Strategies to deal with Anxiety.

Ten Stoic Strategies to deal with Anxiety.

The reputation of the stoics was that they were invulnerable, strong and that they use to suppress their emotions but if that they were so we wouldn’t have found so many references and strategies to deal with anxiety. Here are 10 of them.

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9. Keep A Journal.

9. Keep A Journal.

Journal every single day. Don't think much about it just make a start.

The best time to start journaling was a long time ago, the second- best time is now.

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5. Process Your Emotions.

5. Process Your Emotions.

 Don’t dump your emotions or run away from it. Observe and explore them. They are like a credit card bill, you might not have to pay them now, but it will come later with a higher interest rate charged. So, deal with your emotions or process and meditate over them now and don’t leave it for later...

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7. Chose not to be harmed.

7. Chose not to be harmed.

Don’t want to be harmed, don’t chose to feel harmed - Epictetus

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent - Eleanor Roosevelt

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4. Stop Caring About What People Think.

4. Stop Caring About What People Think.

Stop caring about what other people think, do or say. That is the only way to be at peace and experience tranquility.

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6. Don’t Suffer Imagined Troubles.

6. Don’t Suffer Imagined Troubles.

“We suffer more in imagination than in reality” - Seneca.

All the things that we are anxious or worried about are never going to happen in reality so there is no point suffering for things that exist only in our imagination. You can only have any control over the present moment where you c...

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10. Grab the Right Handle.

10. Grab the Right Handle.

Every situation can have two handles or aspects. You can choose to see it as a victim or something that dis-empowers or you can choose to it see it as an opportunity for growth.

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3. Have No Opinion.

3. Have No Opinion.

 You don’t need to have an opinion about everything. You can accept things as they are or simply ignore it. Look at life objectively and don’t project your own thoughts and opinion on it.

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2. Practice Gratitude.

2. Practice Gratitude.

Feel lucky to be alive in this moment. You have been given a gift of the present moment, don’t be cynical or jaded and waste this precious life. Everything might not be ideal but it’s the time that we are alive, and we have any control only in this moment so accept it and be grateful for it.

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1. Focus On the Little Thing

1. Focus On the Little Thing

Don’t focus on the goals that are in the distance, focus on the immediate step that is within our control. Do each thing that is front of you like it’s the only thing that matters or it’s the last thing that you have to do, and it all adds up - “Many mickle makes a muckle”.

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8. Go For A Walk.

8. Go For A Walk.

 Walking is a way of resting and it allows you to feel refreshed.

Only ideas had while walking have any worth - Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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