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Stealing from the Stoics
I was listening to an interview with Dr David Rosmarin, head of the anxiety center at Harvard University. He was on the podcast 10 per cent happier talking about his book the gift of anxiety At one point, he began to discourse on a specific intervention for clinical anxiety, specifically for worrying. My ears perked…
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Marcus Aurelius and The Mother of All Cognitive Reframes
Everyone wants less stress. With this in mind, we might do well to call up the words of the American psychologist William James: “our greatest weapon against stress Is our ability to choose one thought over another.” To see how this might work in practice, consider the following. Someone cuts me off in traffic. I…