🌳 The Stoic Anxiety Hack

QUOTE OF THE DAY

In simple terms, happy, mad, or upset, you always have the right and ability to choose your response. Many act and then think, this is a sign of someone out of control.

THE STOIC ANXIETY HACK

Excessive worry about the past or future causes anxiety, this can be short-term or long-term and typically builds from something being out of your control. The Stoics have a trick to end this anxiety called Amor Fati. The phrase Amor Fati means ‘loving your fate’ and the principle behind it can be used as a superpower if you’re able to use it properly.

Your life can change in an instant

All It can take is some bad news, one phone call, and one wrong step for your life to feel like it’s turned upside down. This change is what worries your anxious version of yourself the most, especially because the human mind tends to judge change within a spectrum of two polar opposites:

• Desire

• Aversion

When life changes into a desirable position you’ll experience great pleasure, in most cases people become infatuated and reside on a proverbial pink cloud when they experience a radical life change like winning the lottery but when life changes into a position you are averse like losing a loved one you’ll experience great pain. Either way, life goes on and no matter where you end up there will always be one thing that you have to work with which is the present moment.

You could easily say that your life may be changing in a direction that you are averse to which keeps you up at night, the underlining truth is that the future is beyond your control and that’s the problem with the anxious person, they want to control as much as they can, however, the uncertainty of the future doesn’t allow them to do that.

The stoic perspective has a different approach, they embrace fate. This doesn't mean they are lazy or wait for things to come to them it means they are at peace with whatever does come and make the best out of every moment. When results turn out different than expected you have to embrace it, regardless of what opportunities are presented to you, and make the best out of it.

The problem is that the future will happen whether you like it or not and you can either take a tireless approach of trying to control it through the fuel of anxiety or you cross the bridge when you get to it.

Amor Fati puts you in a position where you simply can’t go wrong and when things can go wrong there is nothing to worry about and when there is nothing to worry about you cant let anxiety ruin your life and make you miserable. Embrace your destiny no matter what and you’ll have noting to fear.

Thats the Stoic anxiety hack.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

Ask yourself if it’s the lack of control that makes you worried. If so what difference does it make?

TAKEAWAYS:

The sun will rise whether you want it to or not. How you perceive it is up to you.

BOOK OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The Book of the week is The Unfair Advantage by Hasan Kubba & Ash Ali, a book about how to discover your advantage in life, the thing that puts you above everyone else. It goes on to say that everyone has an unfair advantage, the difficult bit is figuring out what yours is and how to utilise it! Read it HERE

CREATOR OF THE WEEK ⤵️

The creator of the week is @Alexsedlak, a US-based creator that makes content for the modern man and woman. He talks about spirituality, wealth building, and personal development and tackles common problems in today’s society. He’s a creator that will open your eyes to things that would typically go over your head. Check him out HERE

LESSON OF THE DAY ⤵️

You can live more just by doing less.

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