So interesting that this came across my feed today, I just started reading a book about stoicism and it recommends this, as well as actively choosing to put yourself in situations where you are inconvenienced or deprived of something (i.e. camping outside, growing your own food, taking a cold shower instead of a hot one, etc). They propose that not only will you experience more gratitude for the things you have, but you will also realize some of your worst fears (like losing the material things you already have) aren’t as terrible or life-ending as you might imagine them to be
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I love this! I do this sometimes already, but not nearly enough. It also might help me to trick myself into doing the things I need to do, like drink water, when my PDA is really strong haha.
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Stoicism is rebranded hyperindividualism , not saying people can’t take a lot from it but just like meditation it’s rebranded to mean everything that happens is just about you and your individual response to it. People are deeply interconnected and most outcomes in the world have nothing to do with you as an individual but people don’t like to hear that. negative visualization is not unique to “stoicism”. The negative path to fulfillment can be summarized as hope for the best prepared for the worst. Most world philosophical traditions have some version of stoicism but westerners love to fetishize the ancient Greeks bc of a deeply racist and xenophobic idea that “eastern philosophy” is all “woo woo” and nonsense while “western philosophy” is superior and “rational”. Westerners fetishize stoicism bc it buttresses their own sense of self importance and misplaced sense of superiority
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Zelph on the Shelf
Something that feels important right now. 🤍
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