Handling Emotions
Stoics think that negative emotions like anger and fear come from irrational thoughts. By training your mind to think clearly and rationally, you can maintain calmness and stay steady, no matter what life throws at you.
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Develop a mindful life
It’s good to slowly and gradually develop a mindful life so your mind can stay peaceful and calm no matter what life throws at you.
Events don’t upset you
Beliefs about events do. Bad feelings are caused by irrational beliefs, so if you’re feeling negative emotions, focus on the belief you hold about what happens.
For stoics there is no good or bad, there’s only perception. And you control perception.
Afflictive emotions
Within the universe of Mindfulness (following Buddhism), these are emotions that arise in reaction to an experience of displeasure or discomfort in our life, and that make us react without more control of the mind.
Afflictive emotions are not the basic ones of our human condition, l...
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