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Virtue & Vice

Nurturing habits in harmony and diminishing habits in disharmony with softness and your values

PreviousEnchantment & DisenchantmentNextDistinguishing Virtue & Vice

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Overview

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

  1. Notice Habit

  2. Soften into habit

  3. Curiosity

    1. Strengthens: Virtue

    2. weakens: Vice

Nurturing Virtue

  1. Notice or Activate Virtuous habit

  2. Soften into

  3. Enchant

    1. Notice Benefit

    2. Enjoy

Diminishing Vice

  1. Notice or Activate Vice

  2. Disenchant

    1. Notice Disadvantage

    2. Experience Dis-Ease

  3. Soften into

  4. 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

Virtue Practices

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Kindness
Forgiveness
MIDL
Aristotles
Curiosity
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