Virtue & Vice
Nurturing habits in harmony and diminishing habits in disharmony with softness and your values
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Nurturing habits in harmony and diminishing habits in disharmony with softness and your values
Last updated
What
Virtues Habits that are based on and strengthened by softness and in harmony with your values Vice Habits that are based on non-softness and weakened by softness, and in disharmony with your values
Benefits
Increase in Virtues & Decrease in Vices
Ability to nurture virtue and diminish vice
Ability to enchant with Virtue & disenchant with Vice
Ability to distinguish between Virtue & Vice
Instructions
Distinguishing Virtue or Vice
Notice Habit
Soften into habit
Curiosity
Strengthens: Virtue
weakens: Vice
Nurturing Virtue
Notice or Activate Virtuous habit
Soften into
Enchant
Notice Benefit
Enjoy
Diminishing Vice
Notice or Activate Vice
Disenchant
Notice Disadvantage
Experience Dis-Ease
Soften into
Enchant with Softness
Daily Life
Curiosity towards any habits and their harmony or disharmony with softening and their benefit towards your values
Activate and nurture and virtue whenever you prefer
Deactivate and diminish any vice whenever you notice them
Consider
Distinguishing between Constructive Effort & Excessive Effort
Some virtues might partially weaken as they are based on constructive effort as softening is able to release all effort - constructive & excessive.
External: Thinking about what is most beneficial to say in a conversation
Internal: Curiosity towards noticing the benefit in letting go of effort
Constructive effort is that which leads to less effort in the future and/or progress towards your values
Simmering > Impatience
You cannot force the activation or deactivation of habits
You do can create conducive conditions to increase the likelihood of activation or deactivation
Create the conducive conditions and allow it to simmer
e.g., Softening into Frustration
Notice the excessive effort underlying
Notice how uncomfortable it feels
Release the effort underlying with some softening breaths
You may or may not notice the weakening or complete deactivating of the frustration
Notice how pleasant and preferable it feels to let go of effort
Allow it to simmer
Accelerate via Enchantment & Disenchantment
Soften into i.e., releasing the excessive effort is effective in weakening any vice
Softening into a virtue is effective in strengthening it
However, creating a perception shift within your mind of understanding the benefit of virtues and the disadvantage of vice will accelerate the habit change due to 'parts of the mind' supporting it
Progress
Frequency and Intensity increases for Virtue & decreases for Vice
Ability to Distinguish Virtue or Vice Ability to Strengthen Virtue Ability to Weaken Vice
Acknowledgement
