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Stoic Stress ep 34 : Meditations 8.7 : Understanding Overwhelm
I give up. You may have said this or hear other people say it. Some may say it nonchalantly or with meaning. The reason behind it may be overwhelm.
Overwhelm is defined as to overpower in thought or feeling and to feel defeated. It is a significant effect from stress.
Have you been feeling a lot of stress lately? If so, it has probably led to a good deal of overwhelm as well. These two things can often go hand-in-hand, often starting with a lot of stress that goes untreated, which can then lead to a considerable amount of overwhelm and burnout.
While this is very common, it can also be disastrous for your mental and physical state. Feeling of overwhelm means being at a low point.
It is possible to reduce overwhelm to get your life back and start living again. It starts with having a clear and focused mind and taking action.
Don’t look at overwhelm as a condition but as an opportunity. Just as the causes of stress do not cause overwhelm so too is the situation of overwhelm itself.
Meditations 8.7 “Every nature is contented with itself when it goes on its way well; and a rational nature goes on its way well, when in its thoughts it assents to nothing false or uncertain, and when it directs its movements to social acts only, and when it confines its desires and aversions to the things which are in its power, and when it is satisfied with everything that is assigned to it by the common nature. For of this common nature every particular nature is a part, as the nature of the leaf is a part of the nature of the plant; except that in the plant the nature of the leaf is part of a nature which has not perception or reason, and is subject to be impeded; but the nature of man is part of a nature which is not subject to impediments, and is intelligent and just, since it gives to everything in equal portions and according to its worth, times, substance, cause (form), activity, and incident. But examine, not to discover that any one thing compared with any other single thing is equal in all respects, but by taking all the parts together of one thing and comparing them with all the parts together of another.”
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By Matt SchmidtI give up. You may have said this or hear other people say it. Some may say it nonchalantly or with meaning. The reason behind it may be overwhelm.
Overwhelm is defined as to overpower in thought or feeling and to feel defeated. It is a significant effect from stress.
Have you been feeling a lot of stress lately? If so, it has probably led to a good deal of overwhelm as well. These two things can often go hand-in-hand, often starting with a lot of stress that goes untreated, which can then lead to a considerable amount of overwhelm and burnout.
While this is very common, it can also be disastrous for your mental and physical state. Feeling of overwhelm means being at a low point.
It is possible to reduce overwhelm to get your life back and start living again. It starts with having a clear and focused mind and taking action.
Don’t look at overwhelm as a condition but as an opportunity. Just as the causes of stress do not cause overwhelm so too is the situation of overwhelm itself.
Meditations 8.7 “Every nature is contented with itself when it goes on its way well; and a rational nature goes on its way well, when in its thoughts it assents to nothing false or uncertain, and when it directs its movements to social acts only, and when it confines its desires and aversions to the things which are in its power, and when it is satisfied with everything that is assigned to it by the common nature. For of this common nature every particular nature is a part, as the nature of the leaf is a part of the nature of the plant; except that in the plant the nature of the leaf is part of a nature which has not perception or reason, and is subject to be impeded; but the nature of man is part of a nature which is not subject to impediments, and is intelligent and just, since it gives to everything in equal portions and according to its worth, times, substance, cause (form), activity, and incident. But examine, not to discover that any one thing compared with any other single thing is equal in all respects, but by taking all the parts together of one thing and comparing them with all the parts together of another.”