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September 3, 2023 - The Stoic Gym Blog
Tag(s): Freedom || Mindfulness || Stoicism

Total Freedom: Part 3. How to Achieve Total Freedom

As we discussed earlier, we feel that we lack many things and that when we attain them, we will be free. Yet the Stoics insisted that true freedom does not come from wealth, prestige, a perfect body, work that you like, or even your relationships.

August 30, 2023 - The Stoic Gym Blog
Tag(s): Freedom || Mindfulness || Stoicism

Total Freedom: Part 2. A portrait of a free person

Before discussing how to achieve total freedom, let us look at a person who is totally free. What makes us free? Stoics believed that the only true freedom is psychological freedom.

August 27, 2023 - The Stoic Gym Blog
Tag(s): Freedom || Mindfulness || Stoicism

Total Freedom: Part 1. Why are we not free?

The Stoic promise is that total freedom is possible. We will see how we can achieve total freedom in this series.

August 6, 2023 - The Stoic Gym Blog
Tag(s): Joy || Mindfulness || Stoicism

Stoic Joy: 2. How to find joy?

In Part 1 of this blog, we discussed what prevents us experiencing joy. Here we will discuss some specific ways to achieve joy. Although the Stoics emphasized being rational and virtuous as the cause of joy, they did provide some specific suggestions about finding joy in our daily lives.

July 30, 2023 - The Stoic Gym Blog
Tag(s): Joy || Mindfulness || Stoicism

Stoic Joy: 1. Why are we not joyful?

Few of us experience joy on an ongoing basis. Sure, we have periods of happiness, usually when we achieve something or get something. But soon we get used it and we go back to our natural level of happiness.

June 28, 2023 - The Stoic Gym Blog
Tag(s): Pain || Seneca

9 Ways to Deal with Bodily Pain: Part 2

This blog is second in a series of two discussing the ancient Stoics’ view on how to live a life in which experiencing pain doesn’t automatically mean we must live a life of suffering.

June 25, 2023 - The Stoic Gym Blog
Tag(s): Pain || Seneca

9 Ways to Deal with Bodily Pain: Part 1

This blog is first in a series of two discussing the ancient Stoics’ view on how to live a life in which experiencing pain doesn’t automatically mean we must live a life of suffering.

June 21, 2023 - The Stoic Gym Blog
Tag(s): Seneca || Stoicism

The Importance of Time

Stoics believed that we are given just this one thing – time. Time is what our life is made of. Whether we live to be 100 years old or die young, it doesn’t matter. Once we use up our allotted time, we have nothing.

September 29, 2021 - Ancient Stoicism in Plain English
Tag(s): Seneca

The Blush of Modesty

Seneca wrote a series of letters to his young friend Lucilius on various topics. Taken together these letters can be considered as an exposition of Stoicism and how to apply it to our daily lives. This plain English version of the Letters closely follows the original.

September 25, 2021 - Ancient Stoicism in Plain English
Tag(s): Seneca

How to Live with Yourself

Seneca wrote a series of letters to his young friend Lucilius on various topics. Taken together these letters can be considered as an exposition of Stoicism and how to apply it to our daily lives. This plain English version of the Letters closely follows the original.