How can you help clients reduce stress by identifying their values and purpose?

Our virtue can be used against us. We can be doggedly dedicated to our values causing us to be overcomitted and stressed. Be mindful of when your values are causing you to sacrifice other parts of your life that need attention. Spending too much time in a valued activity ie work, volunteering, fitness, or religion can drain your energy. To be well, strive for an optimal level of arousal which means you are engaged, not underperforming nor overly stimulated. Your values can guide you without causing stress. Good luck!

Quand on parle de valeur, gardons à l'esprit qu'il s'agit de "ce sans quoi je ne serais pas moi-même" ! La valeur ou les valeurs sont le carburant intrinsèque et profond de l'individu.

You can assist clients in reducing stress by helping them identify their values and purpose. By understanding what truly matters to them, individuals gain clarity, focus, and direction in their lives. This process allows them to align their actions with their core beliefs, leading to greater fulfillment and reduced stress.

Fine-tuning your values to find your purpose is merely following your contributions. By simply answering, “What values are important to you?” Is it love, honesty, empathy, justice, joy, gratitude, kindness, creativity, etc.? When we fine-tune our values… we find the NON-negotiable ones. I've found doing so has helped me to reconnect with my authentic self and find more contentment, purpose, and joy in my life. This essential part of our thinking and being is so missing in our world today and needs to be taught to future generations so that they can have better coping skills and work on cultivating and connecting to their internal value system to discover early on what purpose means to them.

Identifying your values can help you focus on what's most important. Losing sight of our primary values can lead to stress over peripheral issues. For example, Sarah, a physician I coached found herself stressing if she ran behind schedule. Having a personality that featured a high degree of agreeableness, she stressed over patients' complaints. After a closer look at her values, she realized that timeliness was important, but her primary value was to give the best care, not make every patient happy. After weighing the trade-offs, she decided to focus on her primary value and was less concerned over a few complaining patients. After all, even the patients who complained received her best care...and that's what mattered most to Sarah!

Values guide behaviour. When you act in accordance with your values and purpose you bring out your authentic self. You feel satisfaction and a sense of congruence. When you behave in ways that do not align with your values and purpose you experience self doubt, begin questioning your own credibility. This leaves you with a lack of trust in yourself, guilt and regret. When you operate in ways that are congruent, when you hold certain values strongly and also demonstrate them in your words and actions, you have integrity. And integrity is something that helps you cope and make better choices in life.

Values and purpose serve as guiding principles that provide individuals with a sense of direction and meaning in their lives. When facing stress, aligning one's actions with their values and purpose can offer clarity and resilience. By prioritizing activities and decisions that resonate with what is truly important to them, individuals can reduce feelings of overwhelm and increase their ability to cope with challenges. Knowing that their efforts are contributing to something meaningful can also foster a sense of fulfillment and motivation, which are crucial elements in managing stress effectively.

A business leader is often faced with a choice between between what they need to do to maximize short term profit for the company, and what they feel in their heart to be right. If you decide to go against your conscience, it means you are at war with yourself. This causes deep seated stress. In the long term this is harmful to you as a person. But also, over time, this will likely harm the company. Richard Branson speaks about this when he describes how he always places the well being of his employees above profit, and he seems to have done alright. There are numerous examples of successful companies where leaders care more about people than profit. Retaining your integrity is always worth it in the long run.

To know and identification of causes which increases stress is important factor in stress management . Because of these issues patience level is challenged.

Help clients reduce stress by guiding them to explore their values, passions, and long-term goals. Encourage reflection on what brings fulfillment and purpose to their lives. Assist in aligning daily actions with their purpose, fostering a sense of meaning and direction, alleviating stress and promoting well-being.

Our purpose in life is very personal and it can only be uncovered by someone or something. Our ability to connect with 'our' 'self' helps us relalise our values and purpose. Clarity in our mind and thought process also play an important role.

One thing I have found helpful is reflecting on the principles and beliefs that guide life. What matters most? Considering values such as honesty, integrity, compassion, family, friendship, personal growth, adventure, or spirituality. Additionally, this goes hand in hand with considering various aspects of life, including relationships, career, health, hobbies, or community involvement. Reflecting on how these different areas align with each other's values and sense of contribution and purpose.

I find asking for feedback can be a great tool in helping you uncover your purpose. Don't be afraid to seek feedback from colleagues, friends, and family - their insights can be incredibly valuable—shedding light on our strengths and helping us identify areas where we can make a significant impact. If you're unsure how to start the conversation, try asking questions like, What do you think my strengths are? or What do you consider me really good at? You can also ask for specific examples of times when you've shined or felt particularly engaged and excited.

To identify your values and purpose, reflect on moments you felt most fulfilled. Ask yourself what activities bring you joy and a sense of accomplishment. Consider traits you admire in others. List these insights and look for patterns. Your values are reflected in consistent themes, and your purpose aligns with activities that deeply resonate with you. Summarize this reflection into a personal mission statement that guides your decisions and actions.

HIGHER ORDER PURPOSE Important to note that values and purposes of your Life may not be the same. But once we choose our purpose based on the Core Values, we will have little contradiction and conflicts in life between what we preach and what we practise! However, larger the purpose, greater will be the joy of fulfillment. The Higher Order Purpose of Existence ( HOPE) ought to be the guiding principle!

My work can be quite stressful at times, but I know that what I do is important. And even though events may not go as planned I know that I have done my best and worked within my values system. Even in my writing I can feel a sense of pride and acknowledgement when I know that my writing will be of benefit to readers. By knowing that I have stuck to my values, I motivate myself to continue and have that feeling of accomplishment when a I know I have written a valuable piece. And FYI, all writers love to receive feedback and reviews of their work.

Identifying my purpose helps me make decisions that are aligned with my "why" as a menopause coach. It then allows me to set healthy boundaries and say "no" to things that don't align with my priorities, which reduces stress. However, when those stressful moments occur, reflecting on my values and purpose reminds me of the bigger picture.... it's not about me but the women who I support!

Writing down values that are important to the client gives clarity and a sense of control over what they abide by. This can then be mapped to their purpose, and broken down into small, achievable tasks, which once again contributes to a sense of control, thereby reducing stress.

L'activation des valeurs est un acte conscient pour rassurer notre cerveau. Court, facile et sans danger, voilà le mode opératoire idéal pour cette conscientisation.

The other day, I was working on something for my business. I struggled to concentrate, and then I asked myself: “Why am I doing this?”. And I said:”I’m doing this because it is my mission to help women thrive in their female bodies, I need to share what I have learned, so they can also feel their best in their bodies”. Now I realized, I was working on something that was bigger than myself, and so it helped me to step up and get to work! Your purpose and values give you direction, they keep you focused, so you know better what to do and not to do. Which helps in making decisions.

As a coach or therapist, we can facilitate our client's discovery of their values and purpose through reflective exercises and open-ended questions. Encouraging clients to explore their passions, strengths, and aspirations. Once identified, we can help them understand how these can be applied to their current life situation and challenges. Supporting them in setting goals and making decisions that align with their values and purpose, and guiding them in developing strategies to integrate these insights into their daily lives. Regular check-ins to monitor progress and adjust plans as needed can reinforce their commitment and facilitate stress reduction.

Do together with your clients a complete biopsychosocial assessment of their life situation, this should then help with learning their specific goals as a person. Try to view goals as a place in the arc of development and be mindful of social and cultural values.

A method I use with my clients is to discover values and purpose by 'role reversal.' I get them to imagine they're someone else observing their life. In that place, they notice what they see as their priorities based on their actions, not words. Then, I get them to engage in a 'value embodiment' exercise. They are asked to adopt a value they're curious about for a week, integrating it into all decisions, and observing the impact on their emotions and choices. These experiential approaches provide insights into what genuinely resonates with them, revealing values and purpose through lived experience rather than introspection alone.

Loving yourself Forgiving yourself Not blaming oneself Accepting mistakes can reduce stress. In my practice Acupuncture has proven to be best to reduce stress increasing blood supply to brain.

Es ist in erster Linie unfassbar wichtig, sich selbst an erste Stelle zu stellen. Komme, was wolle. Nur wenn ich selbst zufrieden, gefestigt und ?voll aufgeladen“ bin, kann ich für mein Umfeld positiven Sinn stiften. ?You cannot pour from an empty cup.“ Und dann hei?t es manchmal, den harten Schritt zu gehen und zu jemandem ?Nein“ zu sagen. Im ersten Moment fühlt sich das hart und furchtbar gemein an, wenn dem Gegenüber dabei noch erkl?rt wird, warum es gerade ein ?Nein“ ist, versteht diese dies meistens sofort. Die eigene Erwartung, auf Widerstand und Unverst?ndnis zu sto?en, verl?uft sehr h?ufig ins Leere. Auch hier gilt die Devise: Im kleineren Kreis ausprobieren und erste Erfahrungen sammeln.

Neben der Wertebetrachtung erachte ich die Betrachtung der Bedürfnisse als wichtig. Stress entsteht oft auch auf der zwischenmenschlichen Beziehungsebene. Gewinnen wir Klarheit, welches Bedürfnis für uns gerade zu kurz kommt und welches beim Gegenüber, gelangen wir schneller zu Konsens oder Kompromissen. Es kollidieren niemals Menschen, nur ihr Bedürfnisse. Aus meiner Erfahrung sind es im Wesentlichen sechs: Abwechslung, Wachstum, Sicherheit, Zugeh?rigkeit, Bedeutsamkeit und Beitrag leisten.

In terms of identifying our values, we must do it per area of life. Values are what’s important to us and therefore we have different values in the different contexts of our lives - our health, money, work, relationships. What we deem important for our health may be totally different about money. It can be very useful and insightful to explore our values per areas and examine if there is any conflict. This could be very useful to recognise how we formed habits that may be damaging for our wellbeing because we prioritised a value for our work. When we know these we can reprioritise what’s important to us for both work and health in a way where we can support ourselves and progress in both area in more balance.

For me it is crucial to introduce mindfulness practices and reflective exercises to help clients cultivate self-awareness and presence in the moment. In my experience is a perfect complement. I try to encourage them to engage in activities such as meditation, journaling, or nature walks to connect with their inner wisdom and intuition.

Ich bitte meine Kunden, in Bezug auf ihre Gesundheit eine neue Identit?t auszuarbeiten. Oft wird ein bestimmtes Ziel verfolgt, z.B. Abnehmen. Dabei geht es nicht nur darum, sich mit den Lebensmitteln auseinanderzusetzen, die Gewohnheiten zu hinterfragen und prüfen, was mit dem Alltag vereinbar ist. Es braucht auch eine neue Identit?t. Es nützt nichts, das Gewichtsziel erreicht zu haben, aber mental noch immer die übergewichtige Person zu sein. Es ist nicht haben-tun-sein, sondern sein-tun-haben. Die erste Frage: Wer bin ich, was strahle ich aus? Und die zweite Frage: was für ein Lebensstil pflege ich? Sind diese Fragen gekl?rt, ist das Ziel/Resultat eine logische Schlussfolgerung und kann ohne Stress erreicht werden. Wir fühlen & leben es.

Les valeurs sont en lien avec la conscience de n?tre corps, de nos pensées, de nos émotions et comportements; avec nos sensations, nos perceptions, n?tre histoire, nos désirs pour le futur... Elles sont un amalgame d'énormément de choses. C'est en cela qu'elles font partie intégrante de n?tre être profond et contribuent au développement de n?tre identité. C'est pour cela que les conna?tre et les faire vivre en nous est si important pour n?tre équilibre et n?tre bien-être.