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Each one of these passages is based on the 2,000-year-old philosophy

that has guided some of history's greatest men and women.

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This is how you make hard situations easier.

Airports are stressful and traveling can be a nightmare.

Dealing with a toddler's tantrum at the grocery store tries the best of us,

the confrontation with an employee or a colleague,

the phone call where we get the news that somebody passed away.

Life is full of these situations.

They challenge us, they overwhelm us, there is no foolproof way to prevent them or manage them.

But there is something that helps.

Seneca talked about premeditatasho Malorm, he said that we had to meditate on all the things that could happen to us and that by thinking in advance,

let's say about a nightmare travel day or the eventual death of a grandparent, we lessen it, if only slightly. The unexpected blow, he said, lands heaviest.

Even just saying that to yourself, that the airport is stressful, there may be delays,

but I've dealt with that before and it's important for me to try to relax and take things as they come.

This doesn't seem like much but it helps.

Dr. Becky Kennedy, whose book Good Inside, we've been raving about, calls this emotional

vaccination.

In the same way that a vaccine exposes our body

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