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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.

October 30, 2020 - The Stoic Gym Blog
Tag(s): Appropriate action || Mindfulness || Seneca || Stoic Self-help

How to live a focused life: Five Stoic Strategies

We seem to be busy all the time. We feel we have no time to do all the things we want to do. Often this is because we are not focused and fritter away our time. Here we explore how to live a focused life

April 20, 2020 - The Stoic Gym Blog
Tag(s): Mindfulness || Stoic Self-help || Stoicism || Uncategorized

How To Be Mindful

Mindfulness is not a standard Stoic term, but the concept plays an important role in Stoic thinking. For our purposes, if we define mindfulness as the art of paying deliberate attention, then we will see its critical role in moving us towards Stoic virtues and towards the good life.