Living Our Values
How do you respond when someone asks you, “What are your core values?” Does it feel too big and complex a question? Do you begin to stutter? Or perhaps race through a long list of descriptors? Or, maybe you have a one word answer ready to go? Or maybe something else.
Welcome to this week's episode. We’re delving into the subject of core vales. What’s a useful way to approach them? And, how do they guide us to away from dissatisfaction and suffering and to satisfaction in our lives?
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Often in the podcast I invite you to bring your attention to your core values. Today I offer a way to do that. And how to use them to live a life of satisfaction.
Core values are often defined as beliefs that we live our lives by. Thinking about core values as beliefs can be problematic because beliefs can be limiting, dogmatic, and judging Our beliefs are formed and altered by our social, physical, and cultural conditioning and so may simply reflect our conditioning rather than true values.
Instead we talk about core values as guideposts which keep us on the path of satisfaction, kindness, and happiness.
We're not going to Google core values and peruse lists of hundreds of descriptive words. Rather, we're going to look at core values through mindfulness.
We'll talk about how first accepting how things are, just as they are, is important. Then we'll discover how just by looking at the basics of living we find our guideposts: right speech, right action, right work. From this we'll see how mindfulness and meditation support our path.
I hope you enjoy the show, and as always, I am grateful to you, my audience, and I am also grateful for the people behind the scenes who make this podcast possible.
Allie Allen for logo and podcast cover design;
Gorgias Romero for composing the original music, audio engineering and production;
Bill Rafferty for technical web support; and
Margaret Haas for announcing the show.
Be well. Be mindful.
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