Good morning everyone. First, I want to thank you all for listening to me interviewing my guest, Mrs. Priya Vishwanathan, of DanceWithPri.com and helping her pursue her new venture and making her free workshop on March 13, 2021, a grand success. Thank you Priya for being my guest and on behalf of all the podcast listeners, Priya.
I wish you a grand success in your workshop and any future underwear. Today, I'm prompted to share with you an insight I got from attending a workshop. How I use it and I find it valuable actually. I invite you to try and test it out for your own self.
There is an exercise called the evolution of values that requires you to sit with yourself, dig deeper and find out your three important core values. Then you list the activities that you engage in every day. Next, circle all the activities where you are applying your core values. Remember, it is your core value.
It is your core value. So it is dear to you. It is important. It is the meaning that you give to your core value.
It can be tangible. It can be intangible. And I think there are about 150 values. Whatever.
I have to admit that I did this workshop exercise and went one step ahead to integrate my insights from viewing other videos from Impact Theory. And also from another course, it is called the Brilliant Passionate You from University of Michigan. For me, I realize that as of now, I'm talking about now, I'm 60 years and as of now, the three core values are living in the state of gratitude, consistently connecting to one higher power through prayers. And the third one is living resourcefully with my available resources.
These are the three core values that I have currently. Next, what's the next step that I suggested? It is that you list all the activities. So I had to be brutally honest with myself and list my activities.
So to give you some examples, I just wrote down these activities. Writing my journal, daily normal routine tasks like cooking, serving, cleaning, exercising, being present to the calls from my friends, from my relatives, my children. My daughter is in law. My prayer, prayers, chanting, coaching, being coached, watching, empowering our comic videos, listening to old songs, having an afternoon nap, paying bills, investing and doing banking activities.
Volunteering, recording podcast episodes like this, writing and posting articles on social media, playing, luminosity, word find, taking timely food and medications and making sure that my hobby also does that. A lot of these activities may not seem like higher-cheable type or go get a tie. But I realized that by coaching and by being coached, by participating in workshops, working on my mind, my body, my spirit, the connection and learning about myself, I have allowed myself to spend my time only or majority on majority of the activities. I would say majority of the activities where I can impregnate my core values.
In most of these activities, if you can think about anything where there is coaching, professional, professional, personal, even simple, cooking, training, praying, all these things, most of these I could impregnate a sense of gratitude. I thank God, I thank myself, I thank every part of my body, I thank my digestive system, my secular system, my excreter system, my excreter system. So that is about the internal. Then I go a little meta, I take meditation, mindfulness meditation and gratitude.
Next to my, I just quote each neighbor's name and I say, I thank you, I forgive you, I love you. And then that way what happens is I feel that I am surrounded by people filled with gratitude, surrounded with people who also live resourcefully with the resources. I'm surrounded by people who are also, who also believe in that one higher power and connecting with that higher power day in and day out. So this is just my way of integrating my meditation prayer with the activities that I have.
So you may ask, what is the big deal, right? It is a big deal. Why? Because it has been proved that the more you apply your core values in the activities you spend the time, the more you'd be happy, healthy and wealthy.
Okay, it's very interesting. So make sure that you're very conscious of this and you're, you know, you first, so you're very conscious of this. Okay. So now you might ask me, okay.
Let's say you are conscious, okay, you are conscious and then you make an effort. Okay. So how did I, how did I come to the stage? Okay.
It's not like a big achieve. It's not, I'm not saying it's a huge achievement, but it is really impacted my well being and especially during this lockout time during pandemic, which is so important that we are aware of our well being. That's the reason why I'm even recording this episode. So coming to this stage required me to say no to many activities.
So I'll give you one example, like I had to say, no to my friend for watching a movie. Okay, not because watching a movie with a friend or because my friend's value of watching a movie is bad. Not because of that. It is just because that it is not one of my core values.
Now, am I a big, am I a bad friend or I'm not a good friend? I am not sure about that. That is what my friend to decide about me. However, I am, I am at the same time authentically keeping my friendship by expressing my core value to her and saying this is what it is.
Okay. And how it lands on her is something that she is going to work on. And if it is a true friendship, I can tell her, you know, this is not something that makes me feel connected. Yeah, it doesn't.
So it's something like that. So why I'm saying this is you can love. I still, I love her. I am my true self deeply connects with the true self.
This is in fact from this, this knowledge and this application of the knowledge is from the part of this inside out meditation. I think it's so important about the relationship meeting the relationship. So what I want to impress upon is this. We get busy with our personal family work and community related activities, but we don't tend to go within and take time for ourselves and figure out our core values and consciously spend time and activities where we bring our core values to play.
So my sincere request for you again is to take a few minutes of your time and sit down and write down, figure out what are your core values, go into research. What is a core value? Maybe in Google or whatever it is and do it and ask these questions. Am I spending time on something I value the most?
Am I respectful of my partner or parent or friend who has a different core value and still love him or love her for her or his being? You can go one step meta level to discuss each of those core values and say, Hey, come on. You also list your core values and find out where you're spending time. Most of the time I'm also going to do that.
And let's let's compare our activities and let's find out something a common point where we can spend time together matching our core values and then be respectful of each one's different core values. With that said, I thank you for being a patient listener and sharing your insights. I received several testing on us both yesterday and day before yesterday, but I will read a couple of them. I'm honored Lalita that you mentioned my reflection on your yesterday's episode.
Just keep it coming and never ever feel to send me the link every morning. You are doing me a favor dear Lalita. You are thus inspiring me. I'm finding the podcast so damn vitalizing and heartening.
God bless. There's another one this person says viewing your podcast is one of my favorite. It is so amazing and inspiration that Lalita wanted to explore another area of interest when she hit the milestone of six years. She is doing something that she loves and is good at.
Although she didn't have a goal of how many people have listened to her podcast, it is incredible that she has reached a milestone of one K total place. Congrats to her. Thank you so much all my listeners and I will be reading the other testimonials in my next episode. Normally I record my episode in the morning before at least before 8 30 a.m.
True confession today. It's already 10 10 what 10 40 a.m. So thank you so much for being with me and looking forward to seeing you in my next episode. Bye bye and have a great day.