The most important value in life. List of basic life values. Can all three types of values coexist peacefully in the mind of one person?
How many of them are there? List of all life values huge, but anything too big can be divided into parts. In the synton approach, the basic life values of a healthy person can be grouped into three main circles of values:
- Personal life and relationships
- Business, business, work,
- Own development
If these parts are divided into smaller ones, we get the following list.
Love, excitement, entertainment and relaxation.
These are the values of joy - have fun, enjoy, live to the fullest. Journey to a distant warm country, where the azure sea and white sand. Playing in a casino when betting takes your breath away. The romance of meetings in a cafe, where there is a cozy twilight and a wonderful person opposite.
Family, understanding, children.
This is a long-term relationship in a couple, parents and children, friends and relatives. It is the value of relationships with other people. Here, too, there is love - like joyful care, affectionate attention, warm respect. Here is a man after a working day joyfully goes home - there is his family, his wife and children. Here a young guy drops everything and goes to help his parents with the garden - because the parents are already hard, but he loves them. Here is a woman ruffling her child's hair and sitting next to her to read a fairy tale.
Home, comfort, money.
This is the value of an orderly life. It lies at the junction of two spheres - after all, “home, comfort, money” are very necessary for the family and will not interfere with rest. On the other hand, money is already a way into the sphere of “Business, work, business”. A young couple travels to IKEA for the day to buy furniture for their new apartment. They carefully choose every chair and every shelf - you want to buy a lot, but less money than you want.
My business, my projects.
What do you do for a living? What do you do with your time when you go to work? What plans do you make when you fall asleep at night? All this is the value of the business. Everything related to your work, your ideas and plans for creation and development is collected here. The guy from adolescence was fond of photography and video filming. Everywhere I tried to grab something unusual. Ten years have passed - he shoots expensive, high-quality clips and wants to aim at cinema.
Career, power, status.
It's a value social development- obtaining a higher social status, new opportunities to influence and do. A man changes the car over and over again, buying more and more prestigious brands. A woman goes only to expensive boutiques. Each of them shows their status and each worked hard to reach such a height.
Education, professional development.
It is difficult to do your job well without education and experience. Therefore, the value of mastery development is in the area of “Business, work, business”. On the other hand, any education and professional development necessarily leads to personal development. Therefore, the value of developing mastery simultaneously belongs to the sphere of "I and my own development." Here is a girl carefully looking at what a Hollywood star looks like at the Oscars. The girl is a stylist, she watches the ceremony to catch the most fashionable trends. The girl is at work.
Personal growth, social and psychological skills.
This is the value of personal development. Personal growth can be briefly called the word "wisdom". This is maturity, balanced conclusions, attention to other people. Social skills are behavior in society, for example, the ability to speak one language with a worker, and another with an intellectual. Psychological skills are overcoming your fears, mastering your emotions, purity and clarity of thinking. The girl was caustic and quick-tempered, next to her it was hard. She took care of herself and became softer in communication, more accurate in expressing feelings. People immediately appeared nearby.
Beauty, health, harmonious development.
Appearance, a slender figure, well-developed muscles, the ability to dance and move beautifully - this is all the value of the body. This value lies at the junction of two spheres - when a person takes care of his health, he necessarily develops, therefore the value rightly enters the sphere of "I and my own development." On the other hand, beauty and health has a strong influence on relationships and therefore belongs to the area of “Personal life and relationships”. It is easier for a sporty, fit guy to interest a girl. A flexible and graceful girl is easier to attract the attention of a guy.
Spiritual growth, knowledge of life, realization of destiny.
If you live not only for yourself, if it is important for you to leave a good mark in life - you have the highest motives, you can be called a person with spiritual aspirations. If you are a lover of literature on spiritual practices, which sells a standard set of astrology, yoga, esotericism and healing along with psychotherapy and oriental teachings, then you are just a buyer of literature in this genre.
Human life values play key role in his destiny, because decision-making, the realization of the right to choose, the realization of life's purpose, relationships with other people depend on them.
Each person has his own system of life values, his own priorities. Everyone certainly has values. But, for the most part, people are not aware of their values. And this should definitely be done in order to, as they say, make life easier for yourself. After all, when making any decision, from the smallest to the most momentous, one should turn to the system of one's values, and then, it is quite likely, it will be possible to avoid painful doubts and worries.
Human life values- the basis of life choices of varying degrees of importance.
For some, material values are important: money, food, clothing, housing. For some, spiritual values are a priority: spiritual search, disclosure and realization of one's life purpose, creative self-development, the fulfillment of one's earthly mission. But there are so-called universal values that are important for all people. Among these are the following:
1. Love for yourself (which has nothing to do with selfishness). Only self-love helps to show love towards other people.
2. Warm relationships with people on which our whole life is built.
3. A close loved one, a soul mate who has a special place in your heart. After all, only a couple living in love and harmony is able to realize themselves and leave a mark in life.
4. Creating a home.
5. Love for children.
6. Love for the Motherland - the place where you were born and spent your childhood. This is one of the most important factors in the formation of personality.
7. Work or other social activity. Of course, the work is very important. But in modern world there was a catastrophic bias in her direction. Too many people devote much more time to earning money than to their own health, sports, raising children, creating a home together.
8. Friends and associates. Communication with such people gives joy and self-confidence.
9. Rest. It is rest that allows us to find peace and balance, to concentrate on ourselves.
And it has a really huge potential value. But the value of the resource in itself does not mean anything.
As a metaphor, let's take, for example, a diamond - a valuable, expensive stone, but in itself it is not very attractive: it is just a piece of rock, beautiful, but so far meaningless. It is later, when the diamond is cut by the hands of the master, it will shine, playing and shimmering with its sparkling facets, reflecting Sun rays young day and will rivet with its beauty the eyes and give joy.
It is the same with a person’s life: if he, an attentive master, builds his life soundly and beautifully, taking care that the same strong lives are built next to him, his life becomes a masterpiece, his main and great creation. If a person randomly stacks bricks anyhow, uses everything that comes to hand, does not care about a strong foundation and reliable walls, builds on the one hand, destroys on the other, and even prevents others from building - his life turns out to be nothing more than than a pile of bricks piled together.
And in the first case, a shining Temple turned out to be in the place of the lived life, and in the second case, a dirty dump.
If life is spent in vain, nowhere, in drinking and empty chatter about beautiful things, the value of such a life as a result turns out to be low, although the resource itself was very expensive.
For comparison: they took a diamond and exchanged it for two bottles of burnt vodka. Extremely stupid, but alas, it happens.
If life is lived beautifully, strongly, taking care of at least oneself and one's loved ones, or many people at one's own expense, the value of such a life will be high.
The faceted Diamond shone with magnificent facets.
A person makes the value of his life himself: it depends on his choice in which direction he wants to live and will live. And only his choice will be where to give away an irreplaceable, and therefore incredibly valuable resource: bury it under a pile of bricks or invest it in a magnificent Temple.
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Human life is a great value. It is not comparable to any other value (other type). In this sense, it is similar to a transfinite number. Which, by definition, is greater than any integer or real number. Infinitely more. But mathematicians have come up with such tricky rules by which you can still work with transfinite numbers. That is, with infinity. And it turns out that one infinity can be greater than another, and so on.
So, the value of human life is not comparable with the value of anything else. It is, by definition, more valuable than anything else. But it can be compared with the value of another human life.
Thus, the transfinite theory of the value of human life gives reason to believe that in some cases you can sacrifice your life (for example, when it comes to saving many other lives good people) or kill someone to save yourself, your loved ones and friends from death ... By the way, if someone attacks, maliciously encroaches on someone's life, then he can (and should) be destroyed in any quantity, even to avert the risk by no means 100%.
What is the sense of life? How to live fully and happy life? What is truly valuable in life? Am I living right? These are the main questions that we are all trying to find the answer to ... In this article, I offer you a new opportunity to reconsider your life priorities and find answers to these "eternal" questions for yourself.
When I became seriously interested in this topic and began to search, I found that the best answers to these questions are given to us by people who in their lives have come face to face with their death.
I studied bestselling books about people who found out they were going to die very soon and changed their priorities in life; collected various studies on the topic “what one regrets before death”; added a bit of oriental philosophy and as a result this list of five true values \u200b\u200bwas obtained in the life of every person.
If not for my illness, I would never have thought about how wonderful life is.
1. Identity
Everything in life has its purpose. Every living being on the planet has its own mission. And each of us has a role to play. Realizing our unique talents and abilities, we gain happiness and wealth. The path to our uniqueness and mission lies through our desires and dreams since childhood.
Individuality is the highest value in the world.
Osho.
One woman (Bronnie Wee) worked for many years in a hospice, where her task was to alleviate the mental state of dying patients. From her observations, she revealed that the most common regret people have before death is the regret that they did not have the courage to live the life that was right for them, and not the life that others expected from them. Her patients regretted that they never realized many of their dreams. And only at the end of the journey did they realize that this was only a consequence of their choice, which they had made.
Make a list of your talents and abilities, as well as a list of favorite things in which they are expressed. This is how you find your unique talents. Use them to serve others. To do this, ask yourself as often as possible: “How can I be useful (to the world, to the people I come into contact with)? How can I serve?
Quit the job you hate! Do not be afraid of poverty, failures and mistakes! Trust yourself and don't worry about the opinions of others. Always believe that God will take care of you. It’s better to take a risk once than to regret later that you lived a gray and mediocre life, “killing yourself” at an unloved job to the detriment of yourself and your loved ones.
Always remember that you are unique and your mission is to give the best of your uniqueness to the world. Only then will you find true happiness. That's what God intended.
Discover your divinity, find your unique talent, and you can create any wealth you want.
Deepak Chopra
2. Self-discovery and spiritual growth
Stop being an animal!.. Of course, we need to satisfy physiological needs, but only in order to develop spiritually. People are mainly chasing material well-being and are concerned, first of all, with things, and not with the soul. Then, as the primary meaning and purpose of human life is to realize that he is a spiritual being and, in fact, he does not need anything material.
We are not human beings having spiritual experiences from time to time. We are spiritual beings having a human experience from time to time.
Deepak Chopra
Realize God within you. Man is a transitional being from the animal to the spiritual. And each of us has the resources to make this transition. Practice the state of "Being" more often, when you have no thoughts and you do not need anything, when you simply feel life and enjoy its fullness. The state of "here and now" is already a spiritual experience.
There are people among us, not many, but there are those who understand that it is necessary to start saving money for old age even at a time when it is far away, so that a certain amount has time to accumulate ... So why not take care of what is more important than money, oh soul?
Eugene O'Kelly, Chasing the Elusive Light
And there is no need to improve yourself, you are already perfect because you are spiritual beings. Engage in self-discovery.
To know oneself as well as possible in order to be as big as possible for the world is the most important task of man.
Robin Sharma
Even when you reach your goals, true success is not about the achievement, but about the changes in consciousness that occur as an inevitable consequence of your progress toward those goals. It's not about achieving goals, but about what happens to you in the process of achieving it.
3. Openness
How often, in the face of death, people regret that they never had the courage to express love to their near and dear ones! They regret that they often suppressed their emotions and feelings because they were afraid of the reaction of others. They regret not allowing themselves to be happier. Only at the end of the journey did they realize that to be happy or not is a matter of choice.
Every moment we choose a reaction to this or that situation, and each time we interpret events in our own way. Be carefull! Watch your choice every moment.
What goes around comes around.
folk wisdom
What needs to be done to become more open?
- Give free rein to your emotions and feelings. Ride the coolest attraction and scream at your pleasure; share your feelings with other people; become an optimist - rejoice, laugh, have fun, no matter what.
- Accept yourself and life as it is. Allow yourself to be who you are and let things happen. Your task is to dream, move and watch what miracles life brings you. And if something does not turn out the way you wanted, then it will be even better. Just relax and enjoy.
I die and rejoice. And I'm going to have fun every day I have.
Randy Pausch "The Last Lecture"
4. Love
It is sad, but many people only in the face of death realize how little love was in their lives, how little they rejoiced and enjoyed the simple joys of life. The world has given us so many miracles! But we are too busy. We cannot take our eyes off our plans and current concerns to look at these gifts and enjoy them.
Love is food for the soul. Love is to the soul what food is to the body. Without food, the body is weak; without love, the soul is weak.
Osho
The best way to raise the wave of love in your body is gratitude. Start thanking God for everything that he gives you every moment: for this food and a roof over your head; for this fellowship; beyond that clear sky; for everything you see and get. And when you catch yourself getting irritated, immediately ask yourself, “Why should I be grateful now?” The answer will come from the heart, and, believe me, it will inspire you.
Love is the energy from which the world is woven. Become a missionary of love! Give people compliments; charge everything you touch with love; give more than you get...and move through life from the heart, not from the head. It will guide you on the right path.
A path without a heart is never joyful. You have to work hard just to get there. On the contrary, the path that has a heart is always easy; it doesn't take much effort to fall in love with him.
Carlos Castaneda
5. Relationships
When life passes and in everyday worries we often lose sight of our relatives and friends, at the end of the journey we will feel devastation, deep sadness and longing ...
Spend as much time as you can with those you love and appreciate. They are the most valuable thing you have. Always be open to communication and new acquaintances, it enriches. As often as possible, give people your attention and admiration for them - all this will return to you. With joy and disinterestedly help, give, and just as joyfully accept gifts from others.
Bliss is also contagious, like any disease. If you help others to be happy, by and large you help yourself to be happy. .
Osho
PS: Recently I came across an interesting poll online: “What will you regret before you die?” 70% of the participants answered “When the time comes, then we will find out ... ».
So what will you regret at the end of your journey?
Value is the significance, importance, usefulness, and usefulness of something. Outwardly, it acts as one of the properties of objects or phenomena. But their usefulness and significance are not inherent in them due to their internal structure, that is, they are not given by nature, they are nothing more than subjective assessments of specific properties involved in the public domain, they are interested in and need them. In the Constitution Russian Federation It is written that the highest value is the person himself, his freedom and rights.
The use of the concept of value in various sciences
Depending on what kind of science is studying this phenomenon in society, there are several approaches to its use. So, for example, philosophy considers the concept of value as follows: it is the socio-cultural, personal significance of specific objects. In psychology, value is understood as all those objects of the society surrounding the individual that are of value to him. This term in this case is closely related to motivation. But in sociology, values are understood as those concepts that are called sets of goals, states, phenomena, worthy for people to aspire to. As you can see, in this case, there is a connection with motivation. Moreover, in terms of these social sciences, exist the following types and spiritual. The latter are also called eternal values. They are not tangible, but sometimes have much greater value for society than all material objects put together. Of course, they have nothing to do with economics. In this science, the concept of value is considered as the cost of objects. At the same time, two types of it are distinguished: consumer and the former represent one or another value for consumers, depending on the degree of usefulness of the product or its ability to satisfy human needs, and the latter are valuable because they are suitable for exchange, and the degree of their significance is determined by the ratio that is obtained with an equivalent exchange. That is, the more a person is aware of his dependence on a given object, the higher its value. People living in cities are completely dependent on money, because they need it to purchase the most necessary goods, namely food. For rural residents, monetary dependence is not as great as in the first case, since they can get the products necessary for life regardless of the availability of money, for example, from their own garden.
Various definitions of values
by the most simple definition this concept is the statement that values are all those objects and phenomena that can satisfy human needs. They can be material, that is, tangible, or they can be abstract, like love, happiness, etc. By the way, the totality of values that are inherent in a particular person or group are called Without it, any culture would be meaningless. And here is another definition of value: it is the objective significance of the variety of components (properties and features of an object or phenomenon) of reality, which are determined by the interests and needs of people. The main thing is that they are necessary for a person. However, value and significance are not always equivalent. After all, the first is not only positive, but also negative, but the value is always positive. What satisfies cannot be negative, although here everything is relative...
Representatives of the Austrian school believe that core values are a specific amount of goods or benefits that are necessary to satisfy what more human its dependence on the presence of this object is realized, the higher its value. In a word, the relationship between quantity and need is important here. According to this theory, goods that exist in unlimited quantities, such as water, air, etc., are of little importance because they are non-economic. But the goods, the quantity of which does not satisfy the needs, that is, there are less of them than necessary, are of real value. This view has both many supporters and opponents who fundamentally disagree with this opinion.
Changeability of values
This philosophical category has a social nature, since it is formed in the process of practice. As a result, values tend to change over time. What was significant for this society may not be so for future generations. And we see this from our own experience. If we look back into the past, we can see that the values of the generations of our parents and ours differ in many ways from each other.
Main types of values
As noted above, the main types of values are material (contributing to life) and spiritual. The latter give a person moral satisfaction. The main types of material values are the simplest goods (housing, food, household items, clothing, etc.) and goods of a higher order (means of production). However, both of them contribute to the life of society, as well as improving the quality of life of its members. And people need spiritual values for the formation and further development of their worldviews, as well as worldview. They contribute to the spiritual enrichment of the individual.
The role of values in society
This category, in addition to being of some importance to society, also plays a certain role. For example, the development of different values by a person contributes to the acquisition of social experience, as a result of which he joins the culture, and this, in turn, affects the formation of his personality. Another important role of values in society is that a person strives to create new goods, while maintaining the old, already existing ones. In addition, the value of thoughts, actions, various things is expressed in how important they are for the process. community development, that is, the progress of society. And at the personal level - the development and self-improvement of a person.
Classification
There are several classifications. For example, according to it, material and spiritual values are distinguished. But according to their significance, the latter are false and true. Classification is also carried out by areas of activity, depending on their carrier, and by the time of action. According to the first, economic, religious and aesthetic values are distinguished, the second - universal, group and personality values, and the third - eternal, long-term, short-term and momentary. In principle, there are other classifications, but they are too narrow.
Material and spiritual values
Regarding the first, we have already managed to tell above, everything is clear with them. These are all the material goods that surround us that make our life possible. As for the spiritual, they are the components inner world of people. And the initial categories here are good and evil. The first contribute to happiness, and the second - everything that leads to destruction and is the cause of discontent and unhappiness. Spiritual - these are the true values. However, to be so, they must coincide with significance.
Religious and aesthetic values
Religion is based on unconditional faith in God, and it does not require any proof. Values in this area are guidelines in the life of believers, which are determined by the norms and motives of their actions and behavior in general. Aesthetic values are all that gives a person pleasure. They are directly related to the concept of "beauty". They are associated with creativity, with art. The beautiful is the core value. Creative people dedicate their lives to creating beauty, and not only for themselves, but also for others, wanting to bring true joy, delight, admiration to those around them.
Personal values
Each person has their own personal orientations. And they have different people may be fundamentally different. What is important in the eyes of one may not be valuable to another. For example, classical music, which brings lovers of this genre into a state of ecstasy, may seem boring and uninteresting to someone. On the values of the individual have big influence factors such as upbringing, education, social circle, Environment etc. Of course, the family has the strongest influence on the personality. This is the environment in which a person begins his primary development. He gets his first idea of values in his family (group values), but with age he may accept some of them and reject others.
Personal values include the following types of values:
- those that are components of the meaning of human life;
- the most general semantic formations, which are based on reflexes;
- beliefs that have to do with desired behavior or completing something;
- objects and phenomena to which the individual has a weakness or is simply not indifferent;
- what is important for each person of a person, and what he considers his property.
These are the types of personal values.
A new approach to defining values
Values are opinions (beliefs). Some scientists think so. According to them, these are biased and cold ideas. But when they begin to activate, they mix with feelings, while getting a certain color. Others believe that the main values are the goals that people strive for - equality, freedom, well-being. It is also a way of behavior that contributes to the achievement of these goals: mercy, empathy, honesty, etc. According to the same theory, true values should act as some kind of standards that guide the assessment or choice of people, actions and events.
