“Your values are your unconscious mind’s blueprint for how to live your life when you’re on automatic pilot.” John Overdurf
Values are things that are important to you in different contexts. They are based on your beliefs and experiences, and act as cognitive filters for making decisions. They are the basis of motivation and basis of evaluation. Values are beliefs themselves, and like other beliefs they have supporting (subjective) evidence that presupposes the existence of that particular value.
Value words are abstract nouns – you cannot easily perceive them with your five senses; you cannot easily draw it. E.g., safety, health, communication, faith, honesty, success, career, wellbeing, etc.
Values connect or link between something we perceive and how we feel. When we think of or experience a value, it can elicit a specific internal sensory response. It’s a stimulus-response pattern. When you get your values met, you feel good.
“Your values are basically generalizations about what kind of experiences are important to you. You value experiences that feel good, and negatively value the ones that feel bad.” Steve Andreas