Tag: negative-visualization

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Chapter 27: Techniques for Managing Emotions — Stoicism 101

The four concrete Stoic techniques for emotional equanimity — negative visualization, mindfulness, objective judgment, and reframing — practiced daily until they become reflex.
Chapter 55: Premeditatio Malorum — Stoicism 101

Why mentally rehearsing the worst — exile, loss, illness, betrayal — is not pessimism but a Stoic immunization against shock, and how the practice fortifies present-moment gratitude and resolve.