How to Become More Emotionally Resilient | How To Be A Stoic (Stoicism)

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🎯Stoicism is an ancient philosophy of life. But I find it extremely useful even in the present time. Arguably the most important practice of Stoicism is negative visualisation. This exercise helps us to appreciate what we have, and train our emotional resilience / mental toughness.

In this video, I talk about a 5 minutes exercise you can do every day to train your emotional resilience. Hope you like it!

0:08 How To Be A Stoic? What is Stoicism?
For those of us who live our lives in the real world, there is one branch of philosophy created just for us: Stoicism.
A brief definition on this particular school of Hellenistic philosophy: Stoicism was founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, but was famously practiced by the likes of Epictetus, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius. The philosophy asserts that virtue (such as wisdom) is happiness and judgment should be based on behavior, rather than words. That we don’t control and cannot rely on external events, only ourselves and our responses.

Stoicism has just a few central teachings. It sets out to remind us of how unpredictable the world can be. How brief our moment of life is. How to be steadfast, and strong, and in control of yourself. And finally, that the source of our dissatisfaction lies in our impulsive dependency on our reflexive senses rather than logic.

Stoicism doesn’t concern itself with complicated theories about the world, but with helping us overcome destructive emotions and act on what can be acted upon. It’s built for action, not endless debate.

It had three principal leaders. Marcus Aurelius, the emperor of the Roman Empire, the most powerful man on earth, sat down each day to write himself notes about restraint, compassion and humility. Epictetus endured the horrors of slavery to found his own school where he taught many of Rome’s greatest minds. Seneca, when Nero turned on him and demanded his suicide, could think only of comforting his wife and friends.

But it is not only those three—Stoicism has been practiced by kings, presidents, artists, writers and entrepreneurs. Both historical and modern men illustrate Stoicism as a way of life.

1:35 How can we prepare ourselves for natural losses we encounter in life?

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