One can never escape stress but one can interpret the data around stress and find a different outlook and perspective. This ideal was in the classical age and many philosophers and stoics understood the nature of stress and what one can do mentally to reframe that stress.
The article, “These 5 Stoic Strategies Will Help You Slay Your Stress” by Ryan Holiday looks at five different quotes from the ages of philosophy and how one can incorporate that wisdom in regards to stress today. He states,
“Stress was a factof life. But suffering because of stress? To the Stoics, that was a choice. They mastered the discipline of perception, the ability to see things simply and straightforwardly, as they truly are: neither good nor bad. Marcus Aurelius wrote in Meditations: “Today I escaped anxiety. Or no, I discarded it, because it was within me, in my own perceptions — not outside.”
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How stress is perceived and one’s world view is a big indicator how one will deal with adversity, stress, worries and anxiety.
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