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It explains the virtue-based goal of life through wisdom, justice, courage, and moderation, and centers practice on Epictetus’ “dichotomy of control.” The toolkit provides morning contemplation, throughout-the-day mindfulness of thoughts and judgments, avoidance of value judgments and complaints, optional short Stoic meditation, and an evening review using reflective questions to build wisdom and equanimity.","STOIC THERAPY TOOLKIT  \nDAILY SELF-IMPROVEMENT REGIME  \nThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.  \nI put this toolkit together for you because people kept asking me to create a download with a convenient outline of some key Stoic practices. I’d like to thank all the individuals who gave feedback on the initial draft, to help improve the content for others. You can find more detailed information about these and other psychological techniques in my books on Stoicism: The Philosophy of CBT (2010), Build your Resilience (2012) and Stoicism and theArt of Happiness (2013) . I’ve given a very simplified framework for practicing Stoicism below, based on my own daily routine, and the approach Modern Stoicism has used with tens thousands of participants around the world for Stoic Week and the Stoic Mindfulness and Resilience (SMRT) training. Our research showed that it benefited them and so I’m confident you’ll find it helpful to follow as well.  \nTHE GOAL  \nOF VIRTUE  \nThe goal of life was expressed by Zeno, the founder of Stoicism, as living in agreement with Nature. Wisdom and virtue consist in living harmoniously with Nature, say the Stoics, and in this way our lives will go smoothly and we’ll achieve fulfilment (eudaimonia) . Chrysippus distinguished two aspects to this: living in accord with our own internal nature as reasoning beings by trying to act wisely, and living in accord with the external Nature of the universe by dispassionately accepting the events that befall us. Epictetus later explained that the key to doing this is continual mindfulness of the distinction between things that are “up to us” and things that are not, by which he meant our own voluntary actions versus things that happen to us. Every other technique of Stoicism is understood in relation to the fundamental goal of living in accord with Nature, and this “dichotomy of control”.  \nThe Stoics distinguished between three levels of living in accord with Nature, and four virtues, which are believed to correlate with the topics of philosophy as follows:  \n1. Living in accord with our own true nature as rational beings, through the virtue of wisdom, and study in the field of Stoic Logic.  \n2. Living in concord with society and other people, through the virtue of justice, and study in the field of Stoic Ethics.  \n3. Living in acceptance of Fate, at one with the cosmos as a whole, through the virtues of courage and moderation, and study in the field of Stoic Physics.  \nVirtue (or “excellence” of character, arete) is the only true good for Stoics, and vice the only true evil; although other things have value (axia) they’re not part of our supreme good or the goal of life.  \nDAILY ROUTINE  \nMORNING.  \nAfter you awaken, sit somewhere quiet, close your eyes and begin by contemplating, in your mind’s eye, the rising sun and stars at daybreak, thinking of the whole of space and time and your place within things. Rehearse the sovereign precept of Epictetus’ Stoicism:“Some things are under our control and others are not”, or choose another relevant Stoic maxim. Prepare yourself for the day ahead by imagining the things that could go wrong, viewing them with Stoic indifference, and preparing in advance to respond with wisdom and equanimity.  \nTHROUGHOUT THE DAY.  \nContinually practice mindfulness (prosoche) of your thoughts and actions, and in particular the distinction between what’s up to you and what is not. Avoid making value judgements about external events being good or bad, helpful or harmful, etc. , or complaining about things to yourself or others. When such thoughts occur just take a step back and withhold your assent from them by saying to them:“It’s not events that upset us but our judgements about them”. Try to live wisely, and in accord with the virtues you genuinely admire most in other people. If it helps, take time out of your day to sit in Stoic meditation, maybe five minutes twice a day. 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