Meditation: The Dichotomy of Control Training
The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
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The Stoic Handbook Meditation - That Is None of My Concern
Whenever we are faced with a strong emotion in life, we first of all recognize that the impression of that event is not the same as the source. By practising in this way repeatedly, you will learn to experience life in real time with what the stoics described as the stoic fork. In other words, you will be able to draw a line down your perceptions and divide the world up into things that are up to you, things that are not up to you. When you get good at this, an necessary psychological suffering will dramatically reduce. And your productivity and your ability to focus on what important dramatically increases. This is an indispensable corp ex s of stoic philosophy. Thank you for
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