{"id":9424,"date":"2020-09-11T06:15:02","date_gmt":"2020-09-11T11:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/?p=9424"},"modified":"2020-09-08T10:26:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-08T15:26:59","slug":"preparing-your-mind-for-uncertain-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wellness\/preparing-your-mind-for-uncertain-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparing Your Mind for Uncertain Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">\u201cThe pandemic has hijacked the circumstances of our lives\u2014that\u2019s the reality we can\u2019t avoid. But our minds and our reactions are still our own.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/em><span data-preserver-spaces=\"true\">Ancient philosophers, Stoics, can teach us much about our need to embrace the unknown; in fact, we may be better off accepting the inherent uncertainty in pandemic life instead of fighting an ongoing battle against it. \u201cChange what we can, accept what we cannot.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-controls=\"0\" data-card-align=\"center\" data-card-theme=\"light\">\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/family\/archive\/2020\/08\/how-embrace-uncertainty-pandemic-times\/615634\/\">Preparing Your Mind for Uncertain Times<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>What about the darker kind of uncertainty, the kind many of us are facing now? Not only the immediate suffering of illness and job loss caused by the pandemic, but its open-ended nature. We don&#8217;t know when it will end. You might have noticed that this kind of uncertainty-let&#8217;s call it malign uncertainty-tends to make bad moods worse.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe pandemic has hijacked the circumstances of our lives\u2014that\u2019s the reality we can\u2019t avoid. But our minds and our reactions are still our own.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0Ancient philosophers, Stoics, can teach us much about our need to embrace the unknown; in fact, we may be better off accepting the inherent uncertainty in pandemic life instead of fighting an ongoing battle against it. \u201cChange what we can, accept what we cannot.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":9426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.theatlantic.com\/thumbor\/K9_s_w8Tw4t4ITKBP_HQRLUi07c=\/1440x810\/media\/img\/mt\/2020\/08\/Webart_Uncertainty\/original.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Preparing Your Mind for Uncertain Times","footnotes":""},"categories":[52,3],"tags":[406,455,130],"class_list":{"0":"post-9424","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hr","8":"category-wellness","9":"tag-covid19","10":"tag-emotional_wellness","11":"tag-mental_health"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9425,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9424\/revisions\/9425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnstongroup.ca\/the-advisor-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}