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Why You Still Feel Anxious When You Know the Stoic Advice
You understand the Stoic advice about anxiety. So why doesn't it help at four in the morning?
I look at the gap between knowing and doing, why reading about anxiety can become a way of avoiding practice, and what changed when I stopped making calm the test of a useful exercise.
The practice is small: separate the sensation from the instruction that arrives with it. You can feel anxious and still choose what to do next.
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Sources discussed: Seneca, Letters 13.4. Epictetus…
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