The Benefits of Stoicism for Emotional Resiliency

Stoicism can help people by giving them a number of ways to train themselves and gain this kind of cognitive distance, which is good for emotional resiliency general. A technique that we call modern schools called the view from above, where the Stoics describe visualizing events from really high above. You can make an audio recording that would guide you to imagine you're floating up in the sky and looking down at events from high above. Expanding your spatial perspective, but also expanding your chronological perspective there's many ways that you can do that. There's a thing called the overview effect that's been reported by astronauts when you look at the planet earth. It has a profound psychological effect on