Our values and Life-Balance
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
In Inner Coaching's latest newsletter, the theme was on Balance, and finding balance between work and life. I challenged the traditional view of life balance by sharing Dr Linda Friedland's view that balance is more about going full on for a while, followed by periods of rest and recovery. (read more here)
Balance is also very much related to our values:
Any time you separate space and time you create a mental void. Whatever you perceive as most separated, voided or missing becomes most important to you. You are therefore driven to fulfill these voids. The hierarchy of your values (what is most important to you) determines your destiny; so your destiny is based upon the hierarchy of your voids (the things you perceive most missing).- Dr John Demartini
In the first video, Dr Demartini explains more on our hierarchy of values, and uses relationship as an example of how this works.
In the second video, Dr Demartini talks about how your financial destiny is related to the hierarchy of your values. Using money as an example, Demartini explains how we spend out time and energy in life according to our values.
So when we talk about work-life - balance, we are actually talking about our value system. And if we feel our work-life balance is 'out', as in we don't have balance, it is likely that our we are not living congruently with our values. Every time we try to do something that doesn't match our values, we feel an incongruence and experience feeling out of balance. When our values and our actions are congruent, we experience fulfilment and that can leave us feeling like our life is in balance.
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