values

•Values are often vaguely defined by you. •Values are conceptual; they are not tangible. •Values support your needs. You attempt to satisfy those needs through actions consistent with a particular value. •Values are often acted upon to satisfy your need for security, stability, control and respect for your rights as a human being. •Values change as your needs and circumstances change; they are fluid, yet many stay with you for a lifetime. •Values are internalized through learning or adopted as a result of life experiences. •Values change between cultural groups. Those important to one cultural group are not always important to another. •Values are sometimes common values within certain social groups. For example, conservative values within politics or social values upheld by a specific community. Sometimes values strongly influence the behavior of a particle culture or social group; other times the relationship is a weaker one. Regardless of the strength of the relationship, how values and behaviors interact differs across cultural, political and social groups. While values differ across cultures and groups, that are many that hold true across the spectrum and are shared with many other people in your culture, your social groups and beyond. These values include honesty, loyalty, caring, loving, compassion and respect. When others around you share these values, you are more likely to work together toward a common goal. Yet, even as you share these values, they work inside you and guide your soul in a way that is specific to you.