Analysis Of Seneca's Tranquility Of The Mind

Vulnerability is the willingness to openly admit when we have failed, what our weakness are, and how to be resilient. As a leader, in order to Dare Greatly, I need to be able to ask for feedback, and give feedback by modeling the ability to be vulnerable, and build up my resilience. As a leader we need to realize that by shaming others it only leads to negative and destructive behavior and has no positive effect. So, when I am leading others, I keep in mind that people want to grow, and as I good leader I can help them to grow by giving feedback in positive way.

Death is the most inevitable and unknown aspect of life. It is unescapable, and by most of today’s population, it is feared in the utmost regard. Our materialistic views and constant desertion of religious ideals has forced our society to view death as an ultimate end. Socrates and St. Augustine’s views on death differ from many views on the subject in 2017, however, for their time, these men had the power to influence a plethora of individuals with their theories. For Socrates, death should never be feared and should be considered a blessing if our souls were to ascend to heaven, or death could be an extensive slumber without any dreaming whatsoever. With

Seneca suggest, “Temperance controls our desires.” Temperance is our self- control or free will acting on a situation. It controls our wants and replaces them with necessities. Seneca articulates, “…some it hates and routs, others it regulates to a healthy measure.” It monitors our thoughts that we cannot escape or lie to ourselves about. If there is an urging of evil it calms the storm, or if there is a hunger to help it makes sure it is not corrupted. Seneca states, “Temperance knows that the best measure of the appetites is not what you want to take, but what you ought to take.” Temperance shows the way by substituting fake and dismissible wants for, honest and productive needs. Temperance exposes the truth of what one is thinking and cannot be

Much like the ancient philosopher Socrates, Seneca the young strived to uphold the idea of ethical knowledge. Not going solely after ones desires it is better to be guided by reason to truly live a happy life. The idea of virtue and the liberal studies are the key points of Seneca’s letter “On Liberal and Vocational Studies”. In Seneca’s famous letter “On Liberal and Vocational Studies”, the only way to establish virtue is through the liberal study of wisdom. The effects of having virtue can be seen through harmony, temperance, and kindness.

tranquil. It relates to his time period because during this time many people were addicted to

Vulnerability enables us to show who we truly are and how we react in situations where the power and control over our lives is inconsistent within the beings that make us who we are. In “Young Goodman Brown”, “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been?” and “A Good Man is Hard to Find” Goodman Brown, Connie, and the Grandmother all have a belief in a faith greater than themselves a feeling of being with the right rather than the wrong. Good is what they associate with while evil is a continuous existence unable to affect them. However, these, victims of evil find themselves in a vulnerable state metaphorically or physically facing death as all belief in good precipitates and all they are left with is an evil so overpowering it controls even

This Ted talk, given by Brene Brown, a social worker, who studies the emotions that affect of human interaction. She began going about what she wanted to study and understand about emotions that are hard for most to comprehend. She felt this was her purpose, her driving force. Throughout the discussion, she began explaining what vulnerability was, and what she had learned in her decade long research. Vulnerability (paraphrased), the willing to expression one's true self in order to make a connection.

"It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. "(ch. 12, pg. 121) This quote is a typical life appreciation quote.

Vulnerability is often one-dimensionally viewed as the degree to which mishaps, pain and shame are allowed to enter into one’s life. However it is also the birthplace of creativity and basis for a feeling of self-worthiness. Thereby vulnerability creates authenticity. There are various different definitions of vulnerability according to the field in which the term is used. The most commonly found dictionary definition states that “Vulnerability refers to the susceptibility of a person, group, society or system to physical or emotional injury or attack. The term can also refer to a person who let

Being vulnerable opens your heart up to being broken, but at least then you will feel.

He views tranquility as an essential

• The emotional things such as caring, commitment and concern occur often at the unconscious level and as a result are not always as visible.

If one experience the feeling of loss and vulnerability those are emotions and that is part of living. However in the novel Beloved written by Toni Morrison, Paul D a former slave try his best to not have any forms of emotions towards anyone because he has the fear of loosing them. In the excerpt of Judith Butler, Precarious Life: The Powers of Mourning and Violence argued “Loss and vulnerability seem to flow from our being socially constituted bodies, attached to others, at risk of losing those attachments, exposed to others, at risk of violence by virtue of that exposure.” When someone attach their emotions and feeling towards another person they are increasing their vulnerability because there might be a risk of loosing that person. For example, when Paul D is getting closer to Sethe he was not able to share his emotions, “ saying more might push them both to a place they couldn 't get back from. He would keep the rest where it belonged: in that tobacco tin buried in this chest where a red heart used to be (Morrison 86).” Paul D is starting to share his memories of what happen at Sweet Home to Sethe, but he is scared that he is revealing

In this paper, I will describe my initial thoughts about the practice of mindfulness and my development regarding practicing it. Furthermore, I will explore the idea of being a mindful therapist and how I am hoping to apply this with patients in the future.

The main two aims for the meditator Descartes are to show that the source of scientific knowledge, as we know it today, does not lay in our senses but the mind, and the compatibility between religion and science (Descartes 35). He aims to split the world into body and mind, where science will deal with the body and religion with the mind.