Hey, this is Leo, for actualized.org, and in this video, I'm going to talk about negative

visualization. Misfortunes weighs most heavily on those who expect nothing but good fortune.

This is a quote from Seneca.

Seneca was a Roman senator as I recall and he was a stoic.

What is stoicism and more importantly,

what does this have to do with our topic,

our theme for this video, which is negative visualization? Negative visualization is a pretty cool idea and it's a technique that was developed by the ancient

Greeks and Romans to help you develop gratitude and more happiness in your life.

And what I want to do in this video is show you how to use this technique and

start to get you to really notice how you're leaking happiness in your life because this is what's

happening with a lot of people is that we're going out there and we're creating success

externally for ourselves but then we're still feeling empty inside and that's because we fail to understand

some of these fundamental principles about happiness that the ancient Greeks and Romans

understood several thousand years ago and yet today with all the

information that we have we still fail to actually practice this and it's always

good to go back into the past look at the sages and the wise people who really knew and really studied

the stuff and really understood how happiness works because human psychology hasn't changed

in the last 2,000 years.

It's basically the same as it was.

So this is a good reference point.

So what is negative visualization as a technique?

This is a psychological technique that you can use on yourself,

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