It’s essential to know that there’s no need to struggle—there’s no fighting in this practice. Be kind to yourself, you are trying your best. With every mindful breath and every mindful step, you are beginning a journey to live a good life with meaning.
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In this article, we’ll explore ten ways to speak like a Stoic. We’ll explore how some ancient Stoic practices have been adopted by modern psychiatrists and have come to define some of the most effective behavioral therapies of today. Finally, we’ll examine some of the most useful

Like gratitude, agency is not just something we think about for a few minutes when someone or something reminds us of its importance. It has to be a daily practice.

This is why the breath is so important as an object of focus in #meditation . It’s always there. It’s a bridge between mind and body, and it requires no concepts, notions, ideas, or language.

Peace is a verb. Peace is an action that we should all take more seriously. In this episode, we discuss the concept of practicing peace. We talk about how our thoughts, speech, and actions, even in seemingly mundane situations, are the tiny drops in the bucket that ultimately

Making the effort to insist on more in these ordinary moments, for both yourself and for those you love most is more than worth it. When you think about it, the mundane moments in life are the most significant moments, because they are the majority of life itself.

The ego loves suffering just as much as it loves pride, being right, and enjoying pleasure. This is because suffering puts the ego in the spotlight. I'm grieving. I'm jealous. I'm offended. Whether a happy me or a sad me, it is still me.

To cultivate real solitude, we must become unshakable, or at least uneasily swayed by cultural currents. Otherwise, we can never truly be alone. We’ll always be with fabricated versions of ourselves.

Urgency and focused attention are compatible. Urgency is the elimination of idle time. It’s putting down the YouTube video. It’s canceling the Netflix subscription. Urgency is structuring your day so that the most important things happen at your most focused times. Urgency is

The Stoics used the label of preferred indifferent not as a paradox. They used it to remind us that it’s natural to prefer health over illness, but even health cannot come at the expense of good character.

In the beginning, when we practice meditation, there’s no chasing after concepts, but simply focusing on our breath and embracing silence and resting. And when thoughts or emotions arise, simply embrace them with your breath, and gently let them go.

“There is great difference between joy and pain; if I am asked to choose, I shall seek the former and avoid the latter. The former is according to nature, the latter is contrary to it. So long as they are rated by this standard, there is a great gulf between; but when it comes to

If you look broadly in the literature, you can find that Stoicism has advised on everything from how to sell a home to how to conduct your sex life. This is what attracts me to Stoicism. It’s always acknowledged that we have roles to play in this life. It understands that we have

In the sense of Zen meditation, to stop we must literally stop using our body to manipulate the world. When you want to practice Zen meditation, first put down the phone, don’t try to kill two birds with one stone by stretching or practicing yoga, don’t worry about lighting

Embrace life’s impermanence, and let it guide you to a more mindful and intentional existence in the digital era.
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One way I measure agency in my own life is by my ability to make lateral moves. If I had to move to a different city next month, would I be able to do it? A different country? A different continent?

There is this idea in Zen philosophy that we’re like a block of uncarved wood, that our natural state is one of wholeness and composure. The human ability to detect patterns and use language to make sense of the world is like the blade that carves and shapes our mind into our

Effortless effort is only possible with humility. We must be humble enough to relinquish some control over the multitude of external factors in our lives.

To familiarize ourselves with the concerns of others we must first hear the concerns of others. We need to ask questions, beyond the prerequisite 'how are you?' If we shut ourselves off from our neighbors and our community we are unable to practice Stoic empathy.