Why This Matters: You don’t need to control your emotions. You need to examine your judgments.
According to the Stoics, emotion isn’t instinct. It’s a **mental judgment** about what’s happening. You didn’t feel because something was painful. You felt pain because you *decided* it was painful. This practice — reframing emotional signals as beliefs — allows for deeper control, not suppression. Emotion is not the enemy. Misjudgment is. This short reflection reveals how the Stoic technique of re evaluating feelings can give you back the space between stimulus and reaction—where sovereignty lives.
