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Depression: Mastering Your Mind using Stoic Practices to Overcome melancholy

Snigdha Barnawal

Stoicism encourages people to embrace and understand their feelings while also offering methods for managing and reframing them, thus addressing the emotional aspects of depression. It encourages people to critically evaluate their thoughts and beliefs, questioning unfavorable or distorted thought patterns that cause emotional suffering. By emphasizing what we can control, stoicism encourages people to become resilient while discovering inner peace despite challenging emotions. Continue reading Depression: Mastering Your Mind using Stoic Practices to Overcome melancholy

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Personality Development: How Stoicism can Fuel Growth?

Snigdha Barnawal

Stoicism, at its core, is a school of practical wisdom that has its roots in ancient Greece and was subsequently adopted by some of the greatest thinkers in human history. It provides insightful information on how to manage the difficulties of life, deal with difficulty, and create an existence of virtue and fulfilment. Continue reading Personality Development: How Stoicism can Fuel Growth?

Anxiety, Stoicism and PhilosophyLeave a comment

Stoicism for Anxiety Relief: Cultivating Tranquility in a Turbulent World

Snigdha Barnawal

According to stoicism, anxiety results from our dependency to external results and our excessive worry over circumstances that are out of our control. The illogical thoughts and wants that cause a discrepancy between our expectations and reality, according to the Stoic philosophy, are what cause anxiety. We cause unneeded sorrow and anguish for ourselves when we place an excessive amount of weight on events and circumstances outside of our control. Continue reading Stoicism for Anxiety Relief: Cultivating Tranquility in a Turbulent World

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Stoicism: How to Overcome Anger and Frustration

Snigdha Barnawal

Stoicism focuses on our own responses and beliefs in order to address the underlying causes of anger. It explains that rather than being a reaction to actual events, anger is a reaction to our assessments and interpretations of those circumstances. Stoicism enables us to gain a more logical and unbiased perspective by questioning and disputing these judgements, which enables us to reinterpret events and react to them more calmly. By encouraging self-awareness, emotional resilience, and an increased controlled attitude to difficult situations, stoic practices like self-reflection, mindfulness, and fostering virtues like wisdom and temperance aid in overcoming anger. Continue reading Stoicism: How to Overcome Anger and Frustration