How judging creates a
prison that locks you into a reality you don’t want.
I recently listened to a great interview where they talked
about the vital principals pertaining to us being able to shift and change our
world to one that is more peaceful and loving. One of the major principals is around judgement. It was eloquently explained
that when we judge something we are inadvertently keeping the very thing we don’t
like locked into our current reality. It will then continue to show up and
annoy us until we learn not to judge it. I knew I had to write a post on this subject
as I had an experience recently that I can use to illustrate the importance of
this message.
Calling time on judgement
Judgement is as old as the Bible, even older in fact.
It is something that has been part of our society for thousands of years. When
we make a judgement, we are forming an opinion about something or someone that
is negative and most of the time these are based on assumptions from what we have seen, heard, read or been told by someone. We all have a tendency to judge things in our lives from the film
we saw at the cinema, the colour Cheryl dyed
her hair, to the person we just met. It
has almost become second nature and we do it without even knowing we’re doing
it because most of the time it’s done subconsciously. It is a negative
programme which runs in our subconscious mind that we should actively seek to
change.
Many of the judgements we hold are ones we formed long
ago and that we keep on repeating over and over. We have been taught to judge from a young age
through listening to our parents, siblings, carers, teachers,
the media, other children and so on and by taking on board their opinions as our own. It is important for us to all practice discernment and to not simply take on board other people's opinions but have direct experience ourselves before forming a conclusion. The current dictionary definition
describes judgement as ‘a considered decision or sensible conclusion’ but
this is far from the truth and shows the current belief system that rules the
masses.
When you judge something you are unknowingly labelling
it with a negative charge. This charge keeps the very thing you don’t like in
your reality because of the negative charge you have given to it. Your
subconscious mind will also label and judge everything that looks like that
person or thing with the same label e.g all fat people eat too much
and are couch potatoes, all kids wearing hoodies are hooligans etc. They will continue to appear in your reality
until you have learnt to practice non-judgement and discernment. I hope you are now aware of just
how detrimental judging can be.
Stop judging and start
choosing
I want to show you how can stop judging by practicing non-judgement and help to free
yourself from what you don’t like by sharing my own experience with you. Last
Sunday you may recall it was lovely weather like it has been this weekend. I
was happy that spring was in the air and the sun was shining. I went to the park
and saw above me a bright blue sky and warm golden sun. There didn’t seem to be
a cloud in the sky, however I noticed above me long white chem trails criss-crossing
overhead cutting through the blue expanse of sky. It made me really annoyed to
see them on such a nice day, spoiling my good mood. I was angry to think that chemicals
are being sprayed into the atmosphere and are poisoning our plant and animal
life and ultimately affecting our health.
Pics of chem trails taken above where I live in Bethnal Green
In that moment of feeling angry I have judged chem.
trails as bad and harmful - given them a negative charge and bound them to my
current reality. Ok, I hear you say, so how do you not judge chem. trails if
you see them? We know they are bad and it
is understandable that you feel angry? Well, my friends, this is simply a
matter of opinion (or a judgement) you see. It is hard not to get riled up
about these things when you have an opinion about them. If I didn’t know they
were chem. trails and what they were doing I wouldn’t have judged them as good
or bad, I would have just observed them.
Observing and
acknowledging what is, is very powerful as this stops you from making a judgment. It puts you in a place
of power because you are not reacting with fear, anger, hate or any other
negative emotion which only limits your experience and keeps you in a lower
vibration. If I simply allow myself to look at the chem. trails and acknowledge
there are chem. trails in the sky. It will bring up a feeling in me that I need
to acknowledge as the relative TRUTH about how I feel about
them. The feeling provides me with a
point of reference as something that I don’t want in my reality.
We all have choices but our choices are based on only
one thing and that is preference. When
you have preferences, you have choices. Judging
is taking away that choice and creates a self-imposed prison based on your
previous judgements.
We can only change and shift our outer
reality and experiences through making conscious choices and these can only be made by
having preferences. To have preferences instead of judgements we need to
become a neutral observer. By this I mean taking a neutral position by
simply observing and acknowledging what you see and any feelings that arise without
judgement and then letting them go.
We then need to do some personal inquiry and discerning: the
chem. trail is also an outward reflection of an inward condition. Ask yourself, what is this chem. trail trying to tell me about the way I am living my life? It might be
there to show that the way we are currently living our lives is toxic. Where are we putting chemicals into/on our
bodies? If we smoke, drink, eat GM foods and buy non-organic skincare then we
will continue to see the chem. trails as a reflection of not living in
alignment. I am consciously trying to eliminate toxins in my body. It is hard work as toxins are found everywhere, but this is why we can’t
expect the world to show us what we want if we are not in alignment with our
highest virtues and values.
When you stop judging and labelling things you feel
much freer. It allows you to flow with life’s current and allow what is as you know there is a Divine
order to everything. It stops you getting sucked into negative thinking,
blaming and complaining. When you don’t allow something to impact your reality
negatively and move you off centre, then it cannot harm you and it opens you up
to limitless possibilities.
Let me know your thoughts on judgements and
preferences.