Dealing with Anxiety Part 2: Memento Mori

Memento mori is a Latin phrase which means “Remember You Must Die”. In stoicism it’s about reflecting about your own mortality on a daily basis. If you have full understanding that death is part of life you can build of relationship which results to not being afraid of it.  A lot of our anxiety is deeply rooted to our own mortality. A simple health issue might result to a chain of negative thoughts which at…

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Dealing with Anxiety Part 1: Expecting the worst and embracing it

“While doing something about a future terrible event, the stoics expects the worst case scenario and embrace it. Always remember , ‘memento mori’ “ I think one of the things that I constantly doing wrong in several years is that when I worry something in the future  such as health issue, financial difficulties etc. is that I don’t have the “so be it” attitude. I even make it worse by either suppresing  or  forcefully changing…

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The Problem with Religion: Why I started learning Stoicism.

I’ve been trying to find a philosophy that I could learn and “radically” apply in my daily life. What I mean radically is a philosophy I will work with a commitment to incorporate as strong habits. I was raised a Roman Catholic my entire life. It’s only been a while since I am convinced that religion is a form of philosophy. Islam, Judaism, Christianity, and Buddhism are examples of religion that teach us how we…

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