What are your highest/core values?

A self-paced workshop

Core values are formed in our childhood by the people who raised and influenced us, our community, our early experiences that shaped us.

In our Jyotisha chart, core values are associated mostly in the 2nd house, along with the way we speak (or don't), our income, and more. It is the foundation the rest of our life is set upon.

I've noticed that throughout my life, I will encounter new experiences and people that challenge and refine my values and now that Jupiter has been transiting my 2nd house of my birth chart, 2023 has been a year of clarifying and smoothing out the blemishes in my value system.

By blemishes, I mean that values, like everything else, gets shadowed and repressed at different times of our life and we don’t have clarity on what we stand for. Then an experience comes along and asks us to get clear.

I think we all go through times of life that ask us to become more clear and precise, to take a step up so we can see further with a wider lens.

I'm offering up this value practice for you.  Especially if you are taking the September Ayurveda course or the Reveal Light Course starting in October, clarifying 1) where you are currently (point A) and 2) where you want to go (point B) are a foundational piece to self-study.

Think of it like taking a trip to a place you haven't been yet. There is a desire for a new experience. But to get there, you need to map it out. You cannot just arrive at this new destination without taking into account where in the world you are in this moment. On Google Maps, you share your location first, Point A… and then list Point B. And voila, a roadmap appears.

I invite you to spend time reflecting on your current Point A and Point B.

Inquiries to become more clear on what you value:

Consider past values and also how life (people and experiences) have shaped and smoothed out your values.

Consider other people’s unique values based on how their upbringing was.

What is trying to be expressed from your values but goes sideways? How about in what you observe with others? How might someone who opposes your political views be expressing their values? How about you?

The Practice:

Listen (hit play at the top of this blog post) to this list of 250+ attributes and notice in your body when these read attributes resonate and then circle them or write them down on a piece of paper.

Organize your chosen values or attributes into smaller groups (make no more than 5 sub-groups).

From those smaller groups, select one attribute that encapsulates the whole of the group as a value. You may choose another word or your own word that works better.

Reflect on your list of 3-5 values.

Abiding
Abundance
Absolution
Acceptance
Accountability
Achievement
Adventure
Advocacy
Affirmation
Aliveness
Alone
Ambition
Appreciation
Attractiveness
Autonomy
Authenticity
Authority
Availability
Awareness
Awe
Balance
Beauty
Being
Being the Best
Belonging
Benevolence
Bliss
Body
Boldness
Breath
Brilliance
Calmness
Care/Caring
Celebration
Center
Change
Challenge
Charity
Cheefulness
Choice
Clarity
Cleverness
Citizenship
Comfort
Community
Commitment
Compassion
Connection
Consciousness
Consent
Contemplative
Contentment
Cooperation
Collaboration
Competency
Consistency
Contribution
Creativity
Credibility
Curiosity
Daring
Decisiveness
Dedication
Determination
Dependability
Devotion
Direction
Discernment
Diversity
Earth
Ease
Ecstasy
Embrace
Empathy
Emptiness
Energy
Engagement
Encouragement
Enthusiasm
Equality
Equanimity
Essence
Esteem
Ethics
Evolution
Existence
Excellence
Experience
Expressiveness
Fame
Fairness
Faith
Family
Feeling
Flexibility
Frequency
Friendships
Freedom
Fun
Fulfillment
Generosity
Genius
Grace
Gratitude
Growth
Gravity
Happiness
Health
Healing
Honor
Honesty
Humility
Humor
Individuality
Identity
Innovation
Inspiration
Influence
Inner Harmony
Intelligence
Integrity
Intuition
Imagination
Infinity
Innocence
Insight
Inspiration
Integration
Integrity
Interdependence
Joy
Journey
Justice
Kindness
Knowledge
Knowing
Leadership
Learning
Legacy
Life
Love
Loyalty
Lucidity
Manifestation
Mastery
Making a Difference
Memory
Mercy
Merging
Mind
Miracle
Meaningful Work
Mindfulness
Momentum
Movement
Motivation
Mystery
Nature
Need
Nurture
Optimism
Open-Mindedness
Originality
Passion
Patience
Peace
Perception
Perfection
Play
Poise
Pleasure
Popularity
Performance
Personal Development
Potentiality
Power
Protection
Professionalism
Purity
Purpose
Preparedness
Proactivity
Punctuality
Quality
Recognition
Realization
Reality
Reciprocity
Reflection
Religion
Relaxation
Release
Resilience
Resourcefulness
Rest
Revelation
Reward
Reputation
Respect
Rhythm
Risk Taking
Relationships
Reliability
Responsibility
Responsiveness
Safety
Salvation
Sanctuary
Seeing
Security
Self-Control
Selflessness
Self-Respect
Service
Silence
Simplicity
Softness
Source
Sovereignty
Space
Spirituality
Stability
Success
Status
Stillness
Survival
Sustenance
Synchronicity
Territory
Time
Togetherness
Teamwork
Thankfulness
Thoughtfulness
Traditionalism
Trustworthiness
Transformation
Transparency
Trust
Truth
Unity
Understanding
Uniqueness
Usefulness
Value
Vitality
Versatility
Vision
Warmth
Wealth
Welcoming
Wholeness
Wholesomeness
Well-Being
Wisdom
Zeal

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