Fall Seven Times, Get Up Eight: Refine Your Mindset Using Psychology, Stoicism, and Meditation
Do you suffer from anxiety, depression or an excess of negative emotions and mental patterns that you cannot control?
If so, one of the best options you have is to turn to the psychological techniques, philosophies and practices that have proven most effective in reducing mental suffering throughout history.
This book presents the revolutionary RSM method. The ultimate mental training.
This is a practical approach to the best that cognitive psychology, the philosophy of Stoicism, and Eastern meditation have to offer.
In this method the author has organized, condensed and translated into modern language the systems of thought, techniques and practices that he has been teaching for more than a decade.
The RSM method is Happiness training and is made up of:
- A psychological technique: Rational therapy
- A philosophy: Stoicism
- A practice: Mindfulness meditation
✓ The problem of mental suffering is as old as humanity. That is why, thanks to the most brilliant people in history, we already have strategies to overcome it.
Let's think of suffering as an illness and of these three tools as the prescription that a doctor would make to help us overcome it.
We will then begin the treatment by learning the psychological technique of rational debate. This will be the medication we take every time the symptoms of the disease appear: anxiety, sadness, anger, fear, jealousy or any other negative emotion.
Later, once the symptoms are controlled, we can focus on prevention, for which we will incorporate Stoicism as our new philosophy of life. This will allow us to lead a healthier mental life and make suffering less likely to reappear.
To finish, we will learn mindfulness meditation. With this we will develop the ability to take a step back and observe our thoughts and emotions dispassionately at all times. This will open the door to achieving states of equanimity, serenity and mental clarity impossible to achieve otherwise. This will be our multivitamin.
This is what you will learn by reading this book:
- The brain is neuroplastic and you can train it to be happier
- Why Buddhism tells us that life is suffering
- Without suffering there is no purpose and without purpose life is not worth it.
- You have to learn to take responsibility for your mental state
- What is rational therapy and how is it used?
- How to correctly evaluate everything that happens to you
- How to use rational debate to reduce anxiety and other negative emotions
- What Stoicism is for and why it is one of the best life philosophies you can adopt
- What is mindfulness, the meditation type based on reason and science
- How to start and sustain a meditation practice
- And a lot lot more...
The book is also full of psychological techniques, Stoic exercises and meditative practices.