Day 6: Connecting With Heartfelt Values

Welcome to Day 6 of this 10-day series on living your life more fully with less stress and greater ease. Each day will offer very short videos that suggest practices to bring into your day. Focus on what you value in your life and who you want to be today. When you focus on your values and what is most important to you about how you show up in the world, you can interrupt the more primitive, reactive parts of your brain and turn on the higher cortex. This can help you make good decisions consistent with your deepest values and the best version of yourself. Disclaimer: This video is for educational purposes only and is not intended as a substitute for mental health intervention or treatment of any kind.

Transcript

Welcome to Day 6. So I want to invite you for today to close your eyes for a moment or just bring them to a soft gaze and just a quick little visualization that you can do at the beginning of each day. But you can just try it right now. So getting comfortable and just visualizing. As you go forward into your day or the next moments of your day here, How you want to show up. And in particular inviting you to really focus on what are some of those deeper values and qualities that really matter to you. That you want to bring forth into the day. Maybe it's patience or calm or compassion or presence. Or. . . Curiosity or playfulness or whatever it is. And. . . Just connecting in with. Some of those qualities and really picturing what that would look like and feel like. Carrying that forward with you. Into your day to day. So you begin to watch this almost like it's a little movie playing out in front of you. That allows you to See and experience yourself moving through the day just as you want to, Just in the manner that you'd like to show up. And as you do this and as you mentally rehearse this, It becomes easier. To then bring that awareness with you into the actual moments of your day and to reconnect with those deeper values, With those qualities that matter to you.