When the Mind Won't Shut Up: Stoic Tools to Let Go
When You're Exhausted From Others: Stoic Rescue For Rest
A restless mind at night is often not a sleep problem but a control problem: you replay conversations, rehearse arguments, and convert passing impressions into permanent narratives. Stoic practice reframes those looped thoughts as mere impressions - phantasiai - so you stop feeding them; but how exactly do you let them pass without arguing back?
In this episode, we walk through the everyday scene of a man named Marcus to show how ordinary productivity habits keep the mind working a second shift after dark, and we outline the Stoic shift…
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