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    Stoicism for Beginners: How to Apply Ancient Stoic Wisdom Today using Practical and Simple Steps to Overcome Obstacles, Attain Contentment and Live a Better Life
    Stoicism for Beginners: How to Apply Ancient Stoic Wisdom Today using Practical and Simple Steps to Overcome Obstacles, Attain Contentment and Live a Better Life
    Stoicism for Beginners: How to Apply Ancient Stoic Wisdom Today using Practical and Simple Steps to Overcome Obstacles, Attain Contentment and Live a Better Life
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    Stoicism for Beginners: How to Apply Ancient Stoic Wisdom Today using Practical and Simple Steps to Overcome Obstacles, Attain Contentment and Live a Better Life

    By MARCUS T. RYAN

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    Do You struggle with Negative Emotions? Burdened with distractions in today’s fast-paced world? If yes, read on...


    Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for centuries, yet its teachings are still very much applicable for today’s modern living.


    And while Stoicism can provide several benefits such as dealing with emotions and experiencing contentment, many of the resources available teaching Stoicism can be too complex to understand.


    The key is finding a simple and easy-to-follow Stoicism guide with practical strategies that would help one become the best version of themselves.


    In this complete step-by-step guide, Stoicism for Beginners: How to Apply Ancient Stoic Wisdom Today using Practical and Simple Steps to Overcome Obstacles, Attain Contentment and Live a Better Life, you will discover:


    -How Stoicism can help you succeed today


    -The effective ways on how to become a Stoic in today’s fast-paced world


    -How to apply the Stoic teachings from one of the world’s leading sources of ancient Stoic philosophy to your current situation


    -How to learn a famous Stoic philosopher’s teachings that is being practiced by today’s authority figures and millionaires


    -The principles from a renowned Stoic philosopher that could help you deal with destructive emotions


    -How to effectively deal with the 5 known Negative Emotions that could be holding you back to personal success 


    -Stoic principles you can use to apply to your Relationships


    Ways on how to effectively thrive in a Stressful Environment


    …and much, much more!



    Added BONUSES:
    - Bonus 1: Includes a Bonus Chapter: “Stoicism and Mindfulness”
    - Bonus 2: Includes a Book Preview: “Enneagram Self-Discovery"



    With easy-to-follow techniques and step-by-step details on each chapter to provide you in getting results - even if you have never tried Stoicism before or have struggled all these years trying to manage your emotions, you will find actionable strategies in this book that are both simple and practical to help develop your best self.


    So if you want to successfully become your best self with Stoicism, simply click on the “Buy Now” button to get started.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherE.C. Publishing
    Release dateDec 21, 2018
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      Stoicism for Beginners - MARCUS T. RYAN

      Introduction

      Congratulations and thank you for owning Stoicism for beginners: How to Apply Ancient Stoic Wisdom Today using Practical and Simple Steps to Overcome Obstacles, Attain Contentment and Live a Better Life.

      Our modern world is a fairly hedonistic one with moral relativism stretched beyond its own logical capacity present in lots of people. Stoicism can offer us a much-needed reaction against the problems of plenty that modern people face. While pleasure is one of the greatest parts of living, stoicism offers us meaning in life, which should always be prioritized above any sort of pleasure. Within this book, we will discuss ways in which to avoid falling into lots of the traps that many modern people find themselves falling into.

      To this end, within this book we are going to discuss the topics of how stoicism can immediately help us. These topics are: Ancient Greek and Roman stoic philosophy, how to be a stoic in today's fast-paced world, the famous stoic philosophers Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus and Seneca. We will also discuss how to deal with negative emotions, how to thrive in a stressful environment, how to apply stoicism in relationships, and finally, a Bonus chapter on stoicism and mindfulness.

      Stoicism often gets the wrongful reputation of a philosophy that teaches us to live without emotion. While this philosophy may teach us to curtail our lower passions, it still very much encourages us to experience our emotions to their fullest. There are many other books on the market on this subject, so it is appreciated that you have chosen this one.

      Every effort was made to ensure that it is full of as much useful information as possible, so please enjoy!

      Chapter 1:

      How Stoicism Can Help You

      To begin our discussion of Stoicism, we should first start off with an accurate description of what stoicism is because it is all too often misrepresented today.

      Stoicism is simply a certain school within Hellenistic philosophy founded in the 3rd century BC by the Greek philosopher Zeno of Citium. The school was originally heavily influenced by the teachings of Socrates and later independently developed its own system of logic which was then applied to real-life problems within the natural world.

      One of the more primary and important tenets of stoic philosophy is the emphasis that it places on the present moment, that moment being the one thing that one should accept in order to find true happiness. There is also emphasis placed on not letting one’s actions be determined by the desire for pleasure and or the fear of any pain. The Stoics also assert that one should apply one’s mind to understanding the world better and to treating others both fairly and justly.

      The Stoics were also revolutionary in their time in that they preached that the only good someone can possess is virtue, and that any other externalities, such as pleasure, wealth, and or health, were not necessarily good or bad in of themselves. These stoic ethics, along with Aristotelian ethics, form one of the strongest bases for modern western virtue ethics. As for negative emotions, the Stoics believed these to stem from only errors in judgment. They asserted that people should determine wills for themselves that are in accord with the happenings and affections of nature. Due to this fact, and like most moderns, the Stoics tended to judge people based less on what they said and more from how they behaved. Since everything was rooted in nature, the Stoics thought, it was necessary to understand the inner workings of nature.

      The Stoics believed that virtue is enough cause for happiness, and therefore anyone who strived for the highest virtue would find lasting happiness and would be emotionally resilient in the face of any misfortunes. Therefore, it is only the sage from the Stoic view that would be considered true free among the people. Stoicism remained prevalent throughout the Greco-Roman world until the 4th century A.D. and one of its most famous adherents was the emperor Marcus Aurelius.

      One common modern notion of stoicism that is out of line with the true nature of stoicism is the notion that practicing stoicism involves suppressing one’s true emotions. This is divorced from the true nature of stoicism because a true stoic is genuinely indifferent to pleasure, fear, or pain. In other words, there is no repression of emotion necessary where indifference to the given emotions is already in practice.

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      Now we should discuss the potential benefits of learning more about stoicism. The first and perhaps most beneficial of these is the effect that the practice of stoicism can have on a person's emotional intelligence. Contrary to what popular modern conceptions of stoicism would have you believe, the art of practicing stoicism involves a great deal of emotional intelligence. When negative emotions are repressed without being properly examined and interpreted, they tend to have more detrimental and long-term impacts on a person's overall well-being.

      The greatest thing that stoicism has to offer in the way of developing emotional intelligence is that it not only allows for but encourages the investigation into dramatic events in a person's life in order to ascertain why the emotions felt towards the event are felt. this is expressed accurately in one quote of the Stoic philosopher Epictetus: Men are disturbed not by events, but by their opinions about events. It is all too often that our own presuppositions pertaining to the happenings of our lives cause us more suffering than the actual happenings themselves. Practicing stoicism is a great way to check these presuppositions wherever they may arrive and to adopt any of these which we may find to be faulty.

      One of the most useful tools that the early stoic philosophers offered in the way of adjusting these presuppositions was the use of affirmations. Stoics always valued habit formation and this use of daily affirmations, which is still used in CBT by most patients, reflects on this fact.

      Unlike CBT, however, stoic philosophizing is not disease oriented. When practicing stoic thought, you can allow yourself to feel whatever emotions that naturally come to you without giving yourself the impression that there is something wrong with you. The affirmations used in Stoic philosophy are not directives so much as they are suggestions. While stoic philosophy encourages and indifference to any and all emotions, it does not suggest that there is anything wrong with feeling these emotions. One Axiom that could describe this is that emotions are not right or wrong, they are only felt.

      While stoicism is still practiced by many atheists, agnostics, and religiously unaffiliated people, many Christians view the stoic philosophy as a threat or as a rival to Christianity. This is averse to the nature of Christianity, which extols the virtue in finding wisdom wherever it can be found. Make no mistake that stoicism as a school is never lacking in wisdom and that the texts of the ancient stoic philosophers will remain relevant throughout all time.

      Overall, the stoic philosophy can and will assist you in meeting whatever goals you have as far as your emotional intelligence is concerned. One of the most common issues that people are faced with psychologically, and that is often the aim of CBT, is that they are too agreeable and often put other people's needs before their own. The stoic philosophy places great emphasis on the indifference towards what others think, but also on the importance of understanding the workings of nature as a whole. Contrary to much public opinion, stoicism will help you connect with your innermost thoughts and feelings, rather than repress them.

      Stoicism offers much more than just an increase in emotional intelligence. Some of the greatest virtues of the mind that stoicism offers, as put by Seneca, are freedom, loftiness, fearlessness, and steadfastness.

      In addition to the virtues listed above, one other stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius, extols the virtue in consistently connecting oneself with the world around us. He once famously asserted that the world should be perceived by one optic that encompasses the whole and that everything that exists as part of the whole of the universe. All substance is, therefore, part of one infinite substance. Spinoza would later add to this idea that even finite substances are infinite because they are limited only by other substances of the same nature, making even them infinite. All things, therefore, become cooperating causes of all other things that exist, ourselves included. It is much easier to feel like you serve some sort of purpose when

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