Part of the Eight Fold Path (Cultivation) Right Effort applies to the energy of preventing the arising of unwholesome states and generating wholesome states.

1. Guarding - Not to let an unwholesome-unskillful thought arise, which has not yet arisen
2. Abandon - Not to let an unwholesome-unskillful thought continue, which has already arisen
3. Develop - To make a wholesome-skillful thought arise, which has not yet arisen
4. Sustain - To make a wholesome-skillful thought continue, which has already arisen

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