Seneca’s 16 Stoic Mind Hacks to Neutralize Raging Anger 😡

Seneca can teach you how to gain emotional mastery. Awakened T-Shirts: 40% Off Sale Iconic thinkers. World changers. Wear them. Express your mission. Right now, [get 40% OFF]( our entire t-shirt collection, while supplies last. In the UK alone, two women are murdered each week because of domestic violence, and 400 people who have attended a hospital for domestic abuse commit suicide each year. Anger is dangerous. Anger is toxic. Anger kills. Few people realized the destructive nature of anger more clearly than the Stoic philosopher Seneca, who was advisor to Emperor Nero, one of the most psychopathic, angry emperors the world has known. Seneca was also a sharp observer or human nature both in his own time and throughout history. He believed that anger is almost never an emotion that one should embody because it is too powerful to control. He also had a lot to say about how we might stop anger both in ourselves and others before it wreaks too much havoc. The post below contains 16 of his most powerful stoic mind hacks to help you not only control anger in yourself but to also gain emotional mastery. If you are able to tame your most vicious inner beast, all other parts of yourself will naturally fall into line. [Seneca’s 16 Stoic Mind Hacks to Neutralize Raging Anger]( "We shall prevent ourselves from becoming angry if we repeatedly place before our eyes all anger’s faults and form a proper judgement of it. It must be tried before the jury of our own hearts and found guilty; its faults must be searched out and dragged into the open; in order to reveal its true nature, it should be compared with the worst evils." — Seneca [Read Full Article]( Carl Jung once observed, “The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.” We created [30 Challenges to Enlightenment]( to help you do this. To become the strongest, wisest, and most honest expression of yourself. As you know, taking action is hard and scary. 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