Using your values to live the life you want and boost your mood

What are values?

Values refers to the things that are important to you. They determine how you spend your time, what you commit to, and how you want to live your life. Our values can guide our activities.

The usefulness of values

Looking at your values is useful for anyone, as they can really benefit from taking the time to look into what they spend their time doing, and seeing if it fits with who they want to be as a person.

In Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), we use this approach with anyone with any type of difficulty.

More specifically, values work within Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is also so important when working with people with depression. When people feel depressed, they usually do not want to engage in many activities like normal. However, choosing activities that fit with their values can often be the key to doing more. This in turn, boosts their mood and minimises depression.

How you can use values

Looking at your values can be so helpful, whether you need to boost your mood or just live a more fulfilling life.

If you’re interested in thinking more about values, have a look at the worksheet below from Psychology Tools.

You can use this to think about your values in each of the different life areas, the importance it holds for you, and the success you have had with it recently. You ideally want to be most successful with the most important values you have.

If you’re finding a mismatch, consider what activities you could be doing to boost the success of meeting that value. Try to pencil these activities into your diary, so it is more likely you will do them.

How can Brighter Life Therapy help?

Sometimes self help isn’t enough, and psychological therapy is required. If you are interested in using our service, we do provide CBT and psychotherapy sessions for children, young people and adults. Please do not hesitate to contact us by using our referral form below:

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