Core Beliefs
In the Realm of CORE VALUES
1: Create a visual timeline of your beliefs to promote reflection and observation.
1: Create a visual timeline of your beliefs to promote reflection and observation.Website ‘n Blog Entries
- Life-Timeline – A bird’s-eye view of your life: a great how-to guide by OliveMe Counseling.
- Create a Timeline – A Tool for Self-Discovery & Self Awareness: a great how-to guide by Kay Holdsworth at Trust Yourself.
- How to Create a Personal Timeline (with examples): Another great how-to from Meminto Stories.
2: Practice mindfulness or meditation to observe your core values without judgment and with compassion.
Podcasts & Audio
- Find Your Core Values – really good meditation on Insight Timer with Norma Serena Hogan
- Core Values 101 – Episode of Everyday Better Podcast with Leah Smart: A step by step guide for finding your inner compass.
- Core Values – Episode of Buddhist Bootcamp Podcast: You can’t be happy if you’re not living in line with your own core values. And you can’t live in line with your values if you don’t even know what they are.
- Uncovering Meaning by Gaining Access to Your Values: an 11-minute meditation on just this topic by Rich Fernandez on Mindful.org
Free Mindfulness & Meditation Course
- 40-Day Free Meditation Course with Tara Brach & Jack Kornfield: this is a modern classic and it’s free! 10 to 15 guided meditation minutes a day for 40 days. Stick with it and you will see beautiful changes.
3: Explore books, podcasts, interactive games, and questionnaires to develop a deeper understanding of your core beliefs.
Books
- Belonging – by Toko-Pa Turner: What if belonging isn’t a place at all, but a set of skills, or competencies, that we in modern times have lost or forgotten.
- The Compass Within – by Robert Glazer: Offers the key to a fulfilling life that so many people are missing today… core values.
Podcasts & Audio
- Uncovering Meaning by Gaining Access to Your Values: an 11-minute meditation on just this topic by Rich Fernandez on Mindful.org
Websites, Apps & Games
- Discover Your Core Values Assessment: an interactive app assessment to help you identify your core values and option for an action plan. Assessment is free, and then option to go forward with the app.
- The Values Deck: A colorful card-sorting game to explore and expand on your values.
- Core Values Identification Worksheet: This is a really good worksheet exercise that really helps you zero in on your personal core values.
4: Create rituals or cord cutting for letting go of beliefs that no longer serve or define you.
Books
- Cut Cords of Attachment – by Rose Rosetree: Removing that energetic cord in a quality way, an energy spirituality way.
- Energy Strands – by Denise Linn: Guide to Clearing the Cords That Are Constricting Your Life. Some energy strands make us feel vibrant and alive. Others deplete & weaken us. Most are unaware of these energy strands, but they are extremely powerful forces that surround us every day.
Podcasts & Audio
- Cord Cutting 99 Times Meditation – Break the Cycle (AUDIOBOOK) – by Think and Bloom: leave toxic unhealthy relationships, self-sabotage, let go of negative thought patterns people circumstances situations, draw boundary protection
- Back on the Broomstick Podcast – Cord-Cutting Rituals: what cord cutting is and why it’s an essential practice for releasing energetic attachments that no longer serve us.
Meditations
- Cord-Cutting Meditation to Honor a Fresh Start – with Liz Colpa on Insight Timer. Let go of old attachments and reclaim your energy with this 15-minute Cord Cutting Meditation.
5: Create a vision board, artistic collage, song, or poem around your core belief systems.
Books
- The Complete Vision Board Kit – by John Assaraf: a step-by-step process of manifesting all that you desire through the use of vision boards, we are able to make any dream into a visible, tangible reality.
Websites & Blog Entries
- Ultimate Guide to Creating a Vision Board – by Casa Zuma: a surpisingly thorough guide to making a vision board that is grounded and not “magical thinking”.
- Creative Collage Lesson for All Students – by Debi West @ The Art of Education: mix personal items and traditional materials to create something new and uniquely meaningful
Songwriting
- Berklee College of Music Free SongWriting Handbook
- Songwriter Soiree: an organization, events, and resources that support meaningful songwriting