There is great value in beginning each day with some preparatory steps.Įach morning when I wake up, I begin by opening my notetaking app and answering a set of prompts in a short journaling exercise. To feel anger at someone, to turn your back on him: these are obstructions. We were born to work together like feet, hands and eyes, like the two rows of teeth, upper and lower. Nor can I feel angry at my relative, or hate him. But I have seen the beauty of good, and the ugliness of evil, and have recognized that the wrongdoer has a nature related to my own - not of the same blood or birth, but the same mind, and possessing a share of the divine. They are like this because they cannot tell good from evil. In this way, Stoicism works best as preventative medicine.Ī great example of this technique can be found in Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations: When you wake up in the morning, tell yourself: The people I deal with today will be meddling, ungrateful, arrogant, dishonest, jealous and surly. Strong emotions are always going to be harder to navigate when they come up as unexpected reactions to events. To prepare ahead of time to negate obstacles.To rehearse acting wisely in the face of hardship.īefore going about their day, the Stoics would imagine in advance the obstacles that might come up for three reasons: having to abandon a minor pleasure, to as severe as total immersion in an imagined scenario in which the worst fear(s) of the practitioner has (have) really occurred, e.g.

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Morning reflection