Hello!
Thank you so much for attending our ACTIVATE! workshop. This is a page I created so that students have resources to return to regarding how to locate & use your Heart-Codes.
LOCATING your heart-codes:
- Relevant questions include:
- what is my essential nature?
- what are my deepest values?
- what do I feel when I align with each of those values?
USING your heart-codes:
- Write them down (often!).
- Read them aloud.
- Recite them silently.
- Check in with the feeeeeeeelings when you are deciding how to approach your day, your week, your year.
For example, one of my heart-codes is generosity, and remembering generosity has seriously affected how I do ALMOST EVERYTHING in my life.
A bit more about the mechanics of habit change:
- start with the heart-codes (it works, stay with them evvvvvvveryday);
- check in with how you are applying your heart-codes in all aspects of your life:
- physical body (how you move, feed, nourish yourself);
- your subtle body (mind, wisdom, and spirit);
- your environments;
- your relationships;
- your work in the world (as we discussed, this is not limited to your job);
- regarding specific habits you want to add or subtract, study yourself and your relationship to internal and external expectations– I highly recommend Gretchen Rubin’s books Better than Before and The Four Tendencies;
- if you need external accountability, get your community involved (feel free to comment here and find a new accountability buddy to check in around your heart-codes).
- try to get into the habit of focusing on the habit of practice and checking in– appreciating your overall capacity to grow is key!
Additional resources I recommend:
- My complete habit-creation strategy and notes from workshops past:
A downloadable habit-strategy worksheet:
- Begin Where You Are, a little video:
- Carol Dweck// A path into the future
Habit Tendency Quiz by Gretchen Rubin: SO useful for setting yourself up for success with habits. Once you have your results, learn more about how to support your particular habit tendency in these podcasts by Gretchen Rubin:
- Upholder: make sure to only say “yes” to what you really want to become a habit.
- Questioner: do the research so that you are on-board with the habit.
- Obliger: make yourself accountable to another.
- Rebel: connect the habit to your identity or mission; do it whenever the mood strikes you.
Food for Thought// Is Free Will Really Free? on Radio Lab
Nilofer Merchant// Big Questions, Deep Faith & Real Power
NY TImes// How to Stick to New Year’s Resolutions
- Why don’t I do this already?
- Why do I want to do this NOW?
Stay in touch.
All goodness, Kelly