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Welcome to The Stoic Gym, home of The STOIC magazine and books on Stoicism. It is maintained by Dr. Chuck Chakrapani who has been a long-term practitioner of Stoicism.
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1y ago
- The Stoic Gym Blog 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 ..read more
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1y ago
- The Stoic Gym Blog 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 ..read more
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1y ago
- The Stoic Gym Blog 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 ..read more
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1y ago
- The Stoic Gym Blog 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 ..read more
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1y ago
- The Stoic Gym Blog 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 ..read more
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1y ago
- The Stoic Gym Blog 9 Ways to Deal with Bodily Pain: Part 1 This blog is first in a series of two discussing the ancient Stoics’ view on how to live a life in which experiencing pain doesn’t automatically mean we must live a life of suffering ..read more
The Stoic Gym Blog
1y ago
- The Stoic Gym Blog 9 Ways to Deal with Bodily Pain: Part 2 This blog is second in a series of two discussing the ancient Stoics’ view on how to live a life in which experiencing pain doesn’t automatically mean we must live a life of suffering ..read more
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- The Stoic Gym Blog Stoics believed that we are given just this one thing – time. Time is what our life is made of. Whether we live to be 100 years old or die young, it doesn’t matter. Once we use up our allotted time, we have nothing ..read more
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3y ago
- The Stoic Gym Blog We worry about many things: about the way we have lived our lives, about what is happening around us now, or what might happen in the future. Yet we may not even be clear as to the specific reasons we are anxious ..read more
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3y ago
- The Stoic Gym Blog For many of us, a sense of betrayal is one of the worst emotions we can experience. Almost by definition, the person who betrayed us is someone close to us, someone we trusted. It could be a friend, spouse, a close business colleague, or someone near and dear to us ..read more