Happy Virtues
  • Happy Virtues
  • About
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      • Letting Go / Softening
        • Calming Overwhelm - Diaphragmatic Breathing
        • Recognizing Effort - Progressive Muscle Relaxation
      • Curiosity
        • Deconstruct
      • Enchantment & Disenchantment
      • Virtue & Vice
        • Distinguishing Virtue & Vice
        • Weakening Vice
        • Strengthening Virtue
        • Virtues
          • Kindness
          • Forgiveness
      • Best Opportunity
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      • Procrastination
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Practice Visual

Overview

What

Perceiving every moment as an opportunity to improve upon

Benefits

  • Facilitates Improvement via curiosity to it

  • Facilitates pleasure by perceiving the positive

  • Hindering & Weakening the habituated response of perceiving problems with frustration

Instructions

  1. Be Curious

  • 'What Opportunity is there?'

  • 'What can I learn from this?'

  • 'What potential can I cultivate?'

  1. Reflect on

  • 'As this is the best next step, I can be glad about it'

  1. Enjoy

  • 'It is the best possible action - I am glad :)'

Daily Life

Curios, Reflect, Enjoy e.g.,

  • Suffering:

    • Softening my resistance and weakening the habits underlying suffering

    • What were the causes for suffering to arise?

  • Rejection

    • Softening any habits underlying suffering

    • 'What is the benefit in this?'

Consider

  • Improvement is Diverse

    • In Suffering or Happiness

    • Strengthening or weakening a habit

    • Understanding the causes that lead to a Mistake or Success

  • Potential > Instant

    • Present & Future Reality is caused by the habit energy cultivated

    • Favor cultivating beneficial habit energy for long-term benefit, rather than for short-term benefit

      • e.g., Enchanting with letting go rather than giving into addictions

Progress

  • Perceiving diverse benefits in any moment

  • Perceiving the diverse hindrances in any moment

Acknowledgement

Curiosity
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