Meditation: The Dichotomy of Control Training
The Stoic Handbook with Jon Brooks
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The Dicotomy of Control
meditation explores the dicotomy of control. The stoics believe that there are some things that are not up to us, that we are not responsible for. Epictetus listed our judgments, impulses, desires, aversions and mental faculties as things that are up to us. In other words, our internal world, to a large degree, is our responsibility. We do have control over our goals, our intentions, our conscious decisions. If your emotions are dependent on the external world, you are enslaved to the external world. But if you draw your from within and focus your energy only on the things you can control, then you are free.
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