Living Your True Values: Aligning Your Actions with Your Heart

Our values shape the way we see the world and guide our actions. However, many of us hold values that we think we should have, or live by values taught to us by our parents and society, which may not align with our true values. This can lead to feelings of grief and stress.

Exploring the values we live by versus our true values is a potent exercise in reorienting our lives. It requires defining our values into outcomes and actions, such as what it looks like in our daily lives if we are living by these values.

For example, if family is one of our highest values, we need to define it into actions. Does it mean spending quality time with each member of our family regularly and engaging in activities that create quality connections? If so, are we doing this, and if not, what needs to change? Similarly, if creative expression is important to us, we need to identify the actions that support our full and unbridled expression.

Financial security can be a tricky value as it may be fear-driven or a true heart-centered value. It is essential to examine if our actions align with our true values or if we are using it to mask other more important values. Similarly, while service to others is a value many women aspire to uphold, we need to distinguish between authentic and meaningful contribution and service to others and doing things out of obligation or denial of self.

If balance is one of our values, we need to explore what it means to us and identify what we need to let go of and bring into our daily lives to create more true, heart-centered balance. Often, we neglect to include nourishment, which can be in the form of food, exercise, time in nature, spiritual connection, loving connection with others, time alone, creativity, outer beauty, and meditation.

In conclusion, living our true values requires us to align our actions with our heart and define our values into outcomes and actions. By doing so, we can reorient our lives and live a life that is an expression of our truth.