What Guides Your Heart?

Your personal set of values, however you choose to express them, shines through your words, actions, and how you are in the world. What values give your life its own purpose and authenticity?

What personal values have changed for you over time?

How does your body respond when you act in a way that’s not in accordance with your values?

• I can’t tell: 2%

• Feeling sick: 48%

• Feeling clumsy: 19%

• Heart rushing, sense of fear or anxiety: 69%

What drives you to honor your values when it’s difficult to do so?

THE BIGGEST THING FOR ME IS COMPASSION. Having compassion for myself is very challenging for me. I find it easier to be compassionate to my patients, my staff, my loved ones than I do, deep down, to myself.

But it’s a huge personal value for me, because I was my own worst critic. I was trying to do so much in achieving and succeeding by all these criteria I had. It was really when I started to see myself in a far kinder, more compassionate light, that I would just say to myself, like, Are you just trying your best? Just ease up.

DR. SALLY SAFA

• “My hope and belief that if I follow through with those values, I can help make the world just a little bit better.”

• “I owe it to my family to be my best, because they rely on me.”

• “Knowing that everyone is fighting their own battles.”

• “I want people to be honest, so I need to be honest myself.”

• “Being true to myself and having self-compassion.”

• “Remembering the web of connection: What we do to one person affects others.”

• “Love.”

Has mindfulness helped you succeed at sticking to your principles?

Yes, I feel it has helped

% I don’t think so

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