
Cognitive Softening: Relaxing the Rigid Mind
Understand how softening your thinking changes your emotional world.
Effort
can wait here.
Tools rest
without losing
purpose.
Your value
is not tied
to exertion
in this moment.
Let usefulness
remain intact
without being
activated.
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Value is an inherent structural property, not a transaction of effort. The Status & Control system falsely tells us that worth must be "earned" through exertion. The model views your value as a constant that persists even when the "engine" is off.
By focusing on "being" as a baseline. When you remove the demand for effort, you allow the Reward & Pursuit system to recalibrate. You begin to experience value as the density of your own existence rather than the output of your labor.