Practices focused on relaxation, which may integrate with later techniques on attentional stability and vividness in order to establish an optimal mental balance.

These practices help to cultivate attentional stability, which is beneficial for calming the mind when it is agitated and restless, and may also synergistically combine with the practices of relaxation and vividness of attention.

These sessions aim to cultivate vividness of attention, which helps to arouse the attention in case of dullness or tiredness.