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• A Stoic Way to Practice MindfulnessNovember 20, 2025Such as are your habitual thoughts, so also will be the character of your mind. For the soul is dyed by its thoughts. — Marcus Aurelius Change your thoughts and you can change your life. That’s how I sometimes paraphrase a central Stoic idea: what unsettles us is rarely the world alone but the judgments… Read more: A Stoic Way to Practice Mindfulness
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• Imagine the consequences of your actions beforehand…August 7, 2025In each separate thing that you do, consider the matters which come first and those which follow after, and only then approach the thing itself. Otherwise, at the start you will come to it enthusiastically, because you have never reflected upon any of the subsequent steps, but later on, when some difficulties appear, you will… Read more: Imagine the consequences of your actions beforehand…
• Unclenching the Fist of AngerAugust 2, 2025The clenched fist is a universal symbol of determination as well as of aggressive tension. — Calvert Stein, ‘Clenched fist as a hypno behavioural procedure’, 1963 Many years ago, I used to teach an old conditioning technique introduced by the behaviour therapist Calvert Stein, in the early 1960s. Stein had his clients clench the fist… Read more: Unclenching the Fist of Anger

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