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How To Implement Stoic Techniques to Master Your Emotions · Stoiq

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  Speaker 1: Did you know that seventy five percent of people experience
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  Speaker 1: emotional distress at least once a month. Emotional distress is
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  Speaker 1: caused by our inability to cope with the challenges and
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  Speaker 1: uncertainties of life. In this video, you will easily learn
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  Speaker 1: how to cope with your emotions using the practical tools
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  Speaker 1: of stoicism. Imagine you are stuck in a traffic jam
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  Speaker 1: on your way to an important meeting. You feel frustrated, anxious,
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  Speaker 1: and angry. You honk your horn, curse at other drivers,
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  Speaker 1: and check your phone every minute. You are wasting your time, energy,
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  Speaker 1: and mental health. How many times have you been in
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  Speaker 1: a similar situation? How did you handle it? Did it
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  Speaker 1: make you feel better or worse? What if I told
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  Speaker 1: you there is a better way to deal with such situations,
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  Speaker 1: A way that can help you calm your nerves, clear
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  Speaker 1: your mind, mind, and take control of your emotions. To
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  Speaker 1: cope with your emotions, you need to practice the three
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  Speaker 1: disciplines of stoicism, desire, action, and assent. You need to
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  Speaker 1: desire only what is in your power, act according to
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  Speaker 1: your reason and values, and assent only to what is
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  Speaker 1: true and good. The first discipline is desire. Desire is
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  Speaker 1: the ability to align your will with reality and avoid
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  Speaker 1: craving or fearing things that are not in your power.
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  Speaker 1: As Epictetus said, freedom is secured not by the fulfilling
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  Speaker 1: of one's desires, but by the removal of desire. To
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  Speaker 1: practice desire, you can use negative visualization imagine losing something
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  Speaker 1: or someone you value, and appreciate what you have. You
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  Speaker 1: can also practice gratitude and contentment for the things that
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  Speaker 1: are in your power. The second discipline is action. Action
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  Speaker 1: is the ability to do what is right and virtuous
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  Speaker 1: in every situation, regardless of the consequences. As Marcus Aurelius said,
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  Speaker 1: waste no more time arguing what a good man should
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  Speaker 1: be be one. To practice action, you can use the
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  Speaker 1: dichotomy of control. Identify what is in your control and
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  Speaker 1: what is not, and focus on the former. You can
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  Speaker 1: also use the role model technique. Think of someone you
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  Speaker 1: admire and ask yourself what they would do in your situation.
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  Speaker 1: The third discipline is assent. Assent is the ability to
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  Speaker 1: judge things objectively and rationally and not let your emotions
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  Speaker 1: cloud your perception. As Seneca said, we suffer more often
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  Speaker 1: in imagination than in reality. To practice as cent, you
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  Speaker 1: can use the view from above, zoom out for your
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  Speaker 1: situation and see it from a broader perspective. You can
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  Speaker 1: also use the cognitive distancing technique detach yourself from your
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  Speaker 1: thoughts and emotions and observe them as if they were
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  Speaker 1: someone else's. To sum up. To cope with your emotions,
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  Speaker 1: you need to practice the three disciplines of stoicism, Desire, action,
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  Speaker 1: and assent. You need to desire only what is in
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  Speaker 1: your power, act according to your reason and values, and
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  Speaker 1: assent only to what is true and good. With all
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