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Deep within each of us there are some strong behaviour governing values and beliefs that have always been there. Many of these values were embedded in us
from the earliest stages of childhood, partly from the influence of parents, siblings, elders, relatives, teachers and friends and partly from our own experiences.

Our natural human inclination is for our actions and behaviour to be consistent with these deeply held governing values. That is why we experience
pain when our actions are not consistent with our inner value system. It is almost as if we have an inner blueprint that tells us how we should behave
and react in given situations and pain is a way of reminding us that we have acted in conflict to these values. Of course this is fine when we still support
and believe the values serve our best interests, but many of the values become outdated or are not truly OUR values but those we have accepted as being right
for us because they were right for our parents or others. It becomes essential to define the core values that serve us best.

A great deal of stress is unnecessarily experienced as a result of people failing to identify the core values that mean most to them. They punish themselves for
sins and transgressions that no longer contravene their real value and belief system, had they only identified it.

By identifying and clarifying our true governing core values, we can access the power within them to increase our personal effectiveness in life. A very real
power becomes accessible to you once you identify something that matters a great deal to you at soul level. The power and focus this identification process
reveals to you will help you eliminate uncertainties and move you closer toward accomplishing the goals that are significantly important to you.

When our actions and behaviour is in line with our governing values, we finally experience the inner peace we have been seeking. Such is the importance
of values.

What matters most

It is important to remember that your values are the emotional states that are most important to experience or to avoid, depending on whether the beliefs that
supports them are positive or negative. They are the feelings you want to experience or avoid, move toward or move away from. They are the end result of
your belief process. Positive, uplifting beliefs will generate equally positive and uplifting values that will form the basis of your decision making. Clarification
and identification of your core values, what you value most and what you truly want most out of life will help you make decisions more effectively and rapidly
and bring about the happier, more positive results you are looking for.

Where do our values come from?

The multiple governing values we all possess have their origins in many sources and life experiences. Most of us for example respect the sanctity of human
life. Keeping ourselves alive is a foundation of our existence and there are those who place a greater value on the lives of others than they do of their own,
evidenced by the mothers love of her children. How many mothers reading this, would not put their own lives at risk or even sacrifice their own lives for the
sake of protecting or saving their children?
Many of the moral laws that have evolved in different societies have bestowed their share of governing values in our lives. Many of these draw their source
from a respect for life, honesty, property, integrity and other elements of the moral fabric that society is weaved from. Page98