Valued Action, September 2023

I'm trying to be more:

• Relaxed. Something like: Welcoming, Tentative, Patient, Connected, Content.
  • Not an injunction to do, but an invitation to rest.
  • Find peace by resting in the wider whole, of this and not-this.
  • Relax into stillness. Light and easy, not rigid.
  • The big boulder is only heavy if you pick it up.
  • Slow your tempo.
  • Respond rather than react. Intensity and reactivity breed more of the same.
  • Curb your ambition.
• Open. Something like: Inclusive, Flexible, Positive, Inclusive, Spacious, Tentative, Curious.
  • Be interested in what's happening, not caught up in it and identified with it.
  • Experience emotions fully, without separation or rejection, without adding anything.
  • Your understanding is flawed. Seek to improve it. Adopt a learning stance, be tentative.
  • Ask questions about, and focus on, what connects not what divides.
  • Everything is allowed, even resistance.
• Kind. Something like: Empathetic, Generous, Supportive, Forgiving, Gentle.
• Be kind to the kind. Be kind to the unkind.
• Give Benefits, freely and easily.
• Tough and trying times don't stop you from being a good person.

The more is an important part for me. It's not like there's a score I can achieve and be "done". It's an ongoing process. These values are more like navigational headings, directions, than a destination, a target.

It's not that I don't think about other values, just that these are ones I want to keep front of mind at the moment.

Added 2023-09-03, last updated 2023-09-24.