The following is a list of techniques for dealing with common life issues. Contributors who are creating a new entry under each category should create a detailed post for further explanation and comment on the technique. Create that detailed post by clicking on the heading of the article in the breadcrumbs list (for example "EpicureanFriends.com / Lexicon / Epicurean Techniques for Better Living") and that will create a new article within this subsection of the lexicon. For a general example of how the Lexicon feature can look please click here. This is a community-generated effort, and contributions will be marked with the user-name who initiated the particular technique.
1. For help with anxiety about your relationship with a higher being.
1.1. Reflect on Principle Doctrine One To Remember That The Gods Cause No Trouble To Anyone.
Reflect on Principal Doctrine One: Principal Doctrine 1 is: "The blessed and immortal nature knows no trouble itself, nor causes trouble to any other, so that it is never constrained by anger or favor. For all such things exist only in the weak." (Added by Cassius)
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2. For help with generalized anxiety.
2.1. Title (marked as headline two) followed by a paragraph of which the first phrase is a link and then a several sentence description
If you reject any single sensation, and fail to distinguish between the conclusion of opinion, as to the appearance awaiting confirmation, and that which is actually given by the sensation or feeling, or each intuitive apprehension of the mind, you will confound all other sensations, as well, with the same groundless opinion, so that you will reject every standard of judgment. And if among the mental images created by your opinion you affirm both that which awaits confirmation, and that which does not, you will not escape error, since you will have preserved the whole cause of doubt in every judgment between what is right and what is wrong.
2.2. Title (marked as headline two) followed by a paragraph of which the first phrase is a link and then a several sentence description
If you reject any single sensation, and fail to distinguish between the conclusion of opinion, as to the appearance awaiting confirmation, and that which is actually given by the sensation or feeling, or each intuitive apprehension of the mind, you will confound all other sensations, as well, with the same groundless opinion, so that you will reject every standard of judgment. And if among the mental images created by your opinion you affirm both that which awaits confirmation, and that which does not, you will not escape error, since you will have preserved the whole cause of doubt in every judgment between what is right and what is wrong.
3. For help with anxiety about the death of yourself or of a friend.
3.1. Title (marked as headline two) followed by a paragraph of which the first phrase is a link and then a several sentence description
If you reject any single sensation, and fail to distinguish between the conclusion of opinion, as to the appearance awaiting confirmation, and that which is actually given by the sensation or feeling, or each intuitive apprehension of the mind, you will confound all other sensations, as well, with the same groundless opinion, so that you will reject every standard of judgment. And if among the mental images created by your opinion you affirm both that which awaits confirmation, and that which does not, you will not escape error, since you will have preserved the whole cause of doubt in every judgment between what is right and what is wrong.
3.2. Title (marked as headline two) followed by a paragraph of which the first phrase is a link and then a several sentence description
If you reject any single sensation, and fail to distinguish between the conclusion of opinion, as to the appearance awaiting confirmation, and that which is actually given by the sensation or feeling, or each intuitive apprehension of the mind, you will confound all other sensations, as well, with the same groundless opinion, so that you will reject every standard of judgment. And if among the mental images created by your opinion you affirm both that which awaits confirmation, and that which does not, you will not escape error, since you will have preserved the whole cause of doubt in every judgment between what is right and what is wrong.
4. For help with anxiety that you are trapped by forces beyond your control.
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5. For help with anxiety about your relationships with other people in general.
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6. For help with anxiety about your relationship with friends and family.
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7. For help with making decision about romantic love / sex issues.
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8. For help with anxiety about "making a difference" in the world
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9. For help with anxiety that your life is not "meaningful"
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10. For help with anxiety that nothing makes any difference and that life is a waste of time ("nihilism")
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11. For help with anxiety that you need to be famous and well-known.
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12. For help with anxiety about financial issues.
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13. For help with anxiety about political and social power issues.
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14. For help with anxiety about your place in the universe.
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15. For help with anxiety about health issues.
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16. For help with making decisions about career issues.
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17. For help with recovering from worldviews that denounce pleasure.
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18. For help with pursuing pleasure in ways that are most successful for you.
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