Seneca's Groundless Fears: 11 Stoic Strategies For Overcoming Anxiety

Hey! In this video, I breakdown 11 potent Stoicism quotes from Seneca about anxiety, or more specifically, how to rid ourselves of this through clear thinking. If you found the video useful, consider sharing it with a friend that might struggle with anxiety. Thanks for visiting the channel!

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PRINCIPLES AND QUOTES FROM VIDEO:

1. Knowing You Can Endure Pain Lessens Suffering

"No prizefighter can go with high spirits into the strife if he has never been beaten black and blue; the only contestant who can confidently enter the lists is the man who has seen his own blood, who has felt his teeth rattle beneath his opponent's fist, who has been tripped and felt the full force of his adversary's charge, who has been downed in body but not in spirit, one who, as often as he falls, rises again with greater defiance than ever."

2. The Ripple of Fear Far Exceeds the Wave of Danger

"There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality."

3. Postpone Unhappiness Until Its Due Date

"What I advise you to do is, not to be unhappy before the crisis comes; since it may be that the dangers before which you paled as if they were threatening you, will never come upon you; they certainly have not yet come."

4. Resist to Exaggerate Sorrow

"Some things torment us more than they ought; some torment us before they ought, and some torment us when they ought not to torment us at all. We are in the habit of exaggerating, or imagining, or anticipating, sorrow."

5. Shield Yourself From Negative Narratives

"When men surround you and try to talk you into believing that you are unhappy, consider not what you hear but what you yourself feel because you know your own affairs better than anyone else does."

6. Seek to Falsify Rather than Confirm Your Cherished Beliefs

"We do not put to the test those things which cause our fear; we do not examine into them; we blench and retreat just like soldiers who are forced to abandon their camp because of a dust-cloud raised by stampeding cattle."

7. Panic is Almost Never Useful

"And somehow or other it is the idle report that disturbs us most. That is why no fear is so ruinous and so uncontrollable as panic fear. For other fears are groundless, but this fear is witless."

8. Expect The Unexpected Good

"How often has the unexpected happened! How often has the expected never come to pass! Even bad fortune is fickle. Perhaps it will come, perhaps not; in the meantime, it is not. So look forward to better things."

9. Hope and Fear Make a Mockery of Us

"Counter one weakness with another, and temper your fear with hope. There is nothing so certain among these objects of fear that it is not more certain still that things we dread sink into nothing and that things we hope for mock us."

10. Observe with Moderation

"We let ourselves drift with every breeze; we are frightened at uncertainties, just as if they were certain. We observe no moderation. The slightest thing turns the scales and throws us forthwith into a panic."

11. The Worst Possible thing Could Be The Best Possible Thing

"Let another say: "Perhaps the worst will not happen.' You yourself must say: 'Well, what if it does happen? Let us see who wins! Perhaps it happens for my best interests; it may be that such a death will shed credit upon my life.'"

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