Tag Archives: Value Awareness

Integrating the Value of Regret

Life Area:  Celebration

 Not acknowledging regret may lead to guilt, blame and shame emotions.  If these feelings are left to grow they may nurture resentment leading to depression.  This week take time to consider some things that you may have contributed to that you felt regret for afterwards. 

Write out a simple observation, notice your present sense feelings and name the current need.  Follow up with a request either to follow up with sharing your regret with the parties involved or to have a ritual to signify letting go of it. 

Integrating the value of Contemplation

Life Areas:  Spiritual ~ Divine Connection

 For this purpose consider your inner connected wisdom with a skill level of being able to separate from acting out on your thoughts and simply having ease noticing them. Observing your mind thinking as it passes through your fore-brain   Be willing to record your thoughts over a period of five minutes this week.  Notice how many you have, their context and if they are pleasing to you and filling you with inspiration. Afterwards begin to simply notice your thoughts and say to yourself “thinking.” 

Integrating the value of Groundedness

Life Area:  Groundedness

 Pause a moment and notice where your attention goes.  Is it in your forehead area?  If not, where in your body do you feel awake as you observe your senses? Notice and breathe in while arching your lower back, and exhale while rounding your lower back. Breathe in, become taller and breathe out become shorter (slouching).  Begin to notice your feet on the floor while you continue o breathe. The pressure in your toes, arches and heels.  Continue o breathe.

Integrating the value of Kindness

Life Area:  Nurturing

 “First we experience kindness to model kindness.”

 This week begin to notice how you show kindness to others.  At the same time each day stop and reflect on the acts of kindness in your behavior.  For fun choose one primary relationship and with purpose demonstrate kindness.  Notice by weeks end if it is returned

Integrating the value of Caring

Life Area:  Nurturing

 Compassionate, warm-hearted, loving, 

 tenderly concerned, helpful, affectionate
being kind, being sympathy and understanding
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Take time during your days this week to notice if this is what you receive in your relationships.  Be honest with yourself by recognizing if this is what you give others.

Integrating the value of Love

Live Area:  Interdependence

 Explore the three components of love: intimacy, commitment, and passion in your life.  Hold each one separately and notice what feelings come up.  Are your needs for intimacy being met in your relationship/s?  Are your needs for commitment being met?  Are your needs for passion being met?  Recognition is our first step to balancing out our needs.  Willingness to accept feeling our feelings by being in the quality of whatever they are without justifying, story, or fixing  is the second. 

Integrating the value of Self-Forgiveness

Life area:  Celebration

Making mistakes is part of learning and growing. If we haven’t forgiven ourselves we will continue creating an identity around our pain, and this becomes our constant companion and self image.  It is how others know us in our relationships, “the one who is suffering.” Renee Lindstrom

 

Notice your suffering this week, name the feeling and identify what value that wasn’t met.