Values - Principles - Virtues
My values are my personal truths about how I want to be seen and how I want to be remembered.
From feeling, to knowing what I most value, I can derive my shared values, and stand proudly, principled in Self-respect, generosity of Spirit and a compassionate Heart.
What I value above all else is my Mind. I value how I care for my Mind, and how I treat my Self so my Mind is always strong, and always connected to my Heart.
What I value after this is gratitude. ‘It takes great learning to understand that all things, events, encounters and circumstances are helpful’ for the continuing expansion of my Mind. (A Course In Miracles)
I consider gratitude to be a human quality and virtue. We can only know its full meaning by reaching deep into our Self, so as to recognise our privileges, our potential and the power we carry through our generosity.
I am grateful for the life I have been given to help me achieve what I have always dreamed of. I never quite knew how I was going to leap to this point in my life. It was hard work, often heart-breaking and at times despairing, but with each break I grew and with each fall into hopelessness I would wake up to find the sun shining once again. Until it is no longer hard work, and in return for all my perseverance I received what felt like a miracle. And that is what love is. It is walking into the unknown with courage over and over, guiding us to be fully transparent with the power of a Mind that is at one with it Self.
I value how I honour my Self and how I honour others. There is no separation in what we all deserve, and the opportunities that afford us our worth.
Feeling deserving is earnt through how we honour the way we care for and nurture people. It is how we give, not take.
But above all else it is a virtue we must learn to honour in our Self first. To earn the respect of others we must care for and treat our self with utmost Self-respect. Be sincere in our motivation and clear in our language as we fulfil our responsibility to our Self, others and our environment.
The following quote is what I live by.
I am passionate about the happiness and wellbeing of people, places and all living things.
If our motivation is sincere then our generosity will be felt. If not immediately, then it will over time. And time is what we need to understand the history we carry in our blood and in our DNA. I had to learn to honour my Self as a legacy to my history and our future through the love of my grandmothers who showed me the hardships and the limitations that were imposed upon them. I have felt their love each time I bravely restored a part of them in my Self.
I value generosity. It is a human quality and virtue that creates opportunity by seeing potential, whatever that potential may be. Generosity restores and heals the Heart. Generosity brings voice to the voiceless and helps people earn their right to be seen for who they are through the qualities they have brought with them to this earth.
Generosity is perhaps the hardest virtue of all to embrace. It calls us to not only open our heart but to keep it open, even when we don’t get the response we would like from the generosity we believe we have offered. Generosity requires patience to allow the gift to be fully felt and understood. The gift I am talking about here is not material, but one of caring.
Generosity is a virtue that offers hope. It is the belief in seeing potential and committing to supporting the realisation of that potential. From helping move from hopelessness to being able to do it independently and with self-assurance. And being supportive, walking side by side through the struggles to see potential take shape from hard work, consistency and determination. Generosity helps turn dreams into reality.
Generosity encourages other people to be generous. To have faith, and to trust and to believe in people and their potential.
Generosity comes in many forms. Generosity is giving your attention and full belief without expectation.
Generosity is the free flowing movement of energy. Generosity is an act of love. Generosity is ultimately the act of giving to your Self because you get to enjoy seeing the happiness in potential realised.
Generosity - ‘to have the completed gift there must be a giver who truly wants to give and a receiver who is truly open to receive’. (Arnold Patent - You can have it all)
Generosity comes from a place of love. It makes the world go round and it keeps the world in balance.
Generosity has no defences. ‘The joy comes from understanding who created them’. (ACIM)
Generosity teaches people to be considerate. Thoughtful of others. Respectful. Generosity encourages honesty.
I value my natural talents. I love who I am and I love being able to use my gifts and talents in a meaningful way. I feel grateful for the way my talents have shaped my personality and my path.
I value my body and my nervous system. I dedicate every day to caring for my physical being. I value sleep and I value a quiet, relaxing and calm environment to help me restore on a daily basis so I can keep doing what I enjoy.
I value my strong yoga practice. I am grateful for the body given to me which moves with ease and grace in my love of yoga.
I value my daily meditation practices, in whatever form they take. I am grateful for all the places I get to enjoy sitting.
I value clean healthy food and water. It is not a given for everyone and has now become a privilege for some, not all.
I value my energy. I am so incredibly grateful to feel free of the heavy emotions and their energies that found their way into my life. I feel grateful I learnt about them so that I could become a master of my energy and my Mind.
I value how I express my Self through the knowledge of my chakra system and through my personal bearings. That is, in the way I hold my Self, in how I dress, how I speak and in how I communicate with my surroundings.
I value heart to heart conversations. I value intimacy and I value the honesty of intimacy. I appreciate the knowledge, the wisdom and the trust I feel when I am in communion with people, places, animals and all things. It takes courage to be honest and just as much courage to be open to receiving with all those we are in conversation with. I value how I am able to give from listening and that I can keep improving how I listen.
I value my connection to nature. It doesn’t matter where I am, as long as I can feel the breeze and be immersed in the weather, whatever the season, I can feel strong in my sense of wellbeing. I love all my natural beauty and I love feeling my bare feet on the earth. I value the privilege of being able to see the trees every day wherever I go.
I value beauty. It sustains me. I love how I express the beauty I see and feel. It inspires me to create, even if it is just with my imagination. It makes me feel alive and youthful with its wonderful lasting ripple of energy.
Beauty is always a shared endeavour.
Beauty is not artificial or harmful. Beauty flows. It is not controlled. Beauty grows when we allow it. Beauty is nurturing, caring, inspiring and life sustaining. Beauty is also crushed so we must cherish it that bit more.
Beauty is an expression of our imagination to help us be seen, heard and understood.
I value the small things. I value the attention to detail and the time it takes to bring love and potential to its realised form. I value the insect world. I value the bees 🐝
I value nurturing. I value the enormous energy and time that is involved in creating a loving home, and in sustaining lasting and loving relationships.
If it no longer there, then what we have lost feels that much more valuable.
And so for that, I find it is my Mind that is my most valuable treasure. The measure of my entire wealth.
How I loved feels valuable. The relationships that came and went, and stayed, and my memories of those relationships. I cannot change the past but I can change how I feel about the past.
Human life and the natural world feels valuable. We live in a vulnerable world where love, hate and greed collide, dispersing its erroneous energy, leaving no hint of the beauty that once lay bare for all to enjoy. And so, it is important to savour what was. Embrace the living and free the dead.
My vital energy is valuable. It is my source and my resource for sustaining my aging vitality. I have mourned its premature loss and so I take pleasure in all I am given and give as a way of keeping me light.
Having an agile and strong body feels valuable. I have mourned emotional sickness and what it does to your Mind and body. As long as I can still climb the money bars, put my foot behind my head, walk long distances, rock hop and rock climb I feel alive, energised and impish for the possibilities of life yet to come.
How I lived and walked my path to this point feels valuable. I’ve been given the full range of colours as well as all the various shades of greys, from light to dark. I have become taller, wiser, bolder and more courageous with the passing of each decade.
Each moment of my life feels valuable. I don’t look too far into the future. I have learnt to stay in the present, to savour the memories of the past, and to let the unknown be known when it is here.
Shared Values
Trust is the first foundation to growing all other values.
Honesty. The preparedness to challenge and be challenged as a way of deepening our sense of Self, and truth.
Generosity is to live with an open Mind and an open Heart.
Tolerance requires patience and the time to look beyond our judgements and beliefs.
Respect is earnt through Self-respect. How we honour our Self in the way we speak, are spoken to and in how we would like to be treated is always reflected back at us. How we care for our Self is how we treat others, and vice versa. We are always teachers, and we are always learning to see it differently, to do it better, and to live it well.
Freedom of choice. We are responsible for all of our actions in every moment. We do it with the art of deep listening, and we do whatever we do with grace.
Freedom of expression. We are solely responsible for how we express our Self. How we speak to others is how we would speak to our Self. With love, support, encouragement and the belief in the potential we always see.