Foundational Skills

Introduction

Guided Practice - Foundation

Practice Visualization

Overview - Skills

Name	What	Benefit
Softening	Our return base which is based on releasing excessive effort	Facilitates Virtue Independent happiness i.e., based on letting go Decondition Vices
Curiosity	Interest towards the causal relationship	Understanding & directly experiencing Causality Facilitates improvement as we understand the causes to apply or remove
Enchantment	Perceiving the benefit	Facilitate virtues & hinder vices Automating behavior
Disenchantment	Perceiving the disadvantage	Hinder vices & facilitate virtues Discouraging automated behavior
Perspective Auto	Recognising that everything is happening by it self, caused by specific conditions, outside your control	Facilitates Attitude of Offering > Forcing Facilitates Softness Facilitates independent happiness Facilitates Virtue Hinders Vices Facilitates Understanding of Causality Perceiving oneself as an aggregate of habits that can be improved upon
Perspective Best Opportunity	Perceiving every moment as an opportunity to improve upon	Facilitates inspiration to cause good Facilitates being happy & optimistic Hindering the habituated response of perceiving problems with dread, suffering, pessimism
Virtue	Habits that are based on and strengthened by softness and in harmony with your values	Recognize Virtue Cultivating Virtue
Vice	Habits that are based on non-softness and weakened by softness, and in disharmony with your values	Recognize Vice Decondition Vices

Overview - Practice Instructions

Benefits	Enjoyable, facilitating and compounding development in happiness and virtue Facilitating the hindering and deconditioning of suffering and vice Positive Attitude towards one's values Causality & Auto: 'What are the causes that will positively influence this?' Best Opportunity: 'What is the best next step?' Reward > Penalty
Instructions	Establishing the Base Establishing a base of softness Enchanting with Softness Cultivating Virtue Activate Virtue or Virtue automatically arises Soften into the virtue Enchant with Virtuous Softness Decondition Vices Activate Vice or Vice automatically arises Disenchant with Vice Soften into the Vice Enchant with Softness
Daily Life	The practice can be applied in any situation in life Continue to recognize Softness, Non-Softness, Virtue and Vice Soften, Enchant, or Disenchant
Consider	Remember the perspective of 'best opportunity' 'What is the best next step I can take?' Enjoy this opportunity Remember the perspective of 'Auto' As this is happening all by itself, how can I best support positive change? Softening is the opposite of trying. Whenever you notice trying or struggling, release the effort underlying it.
Progress	Becoming sensitive to what it feels like to experience softness and virtue compared to non-softness and vice Ability to soften and enchant with softness and virtue Ability to soften & disenchant with vice Perceiving causality & 'auto' in your sensory experience and the external world Being glad that you can improve upon the current situation ('best opportunity')