Releasing Judgment We learn to be judges of others,
Usually at a very early age,
While listening and watching parents or teachers pass comments and pronounce judgment about other people's behaviors.
We also learn to like and dislike,
And it's not long before the two are mixed.
When we dislike anything,
It often becomes a projection of disapproval that we then expand into a negative judgment.
The moment we judge another's behavior,
The moment we create a negative assessment of the other,
We are erecting a barrier between ourselves and them.
This creates the disconnection,
And even when there is a connection,
It feels as if there isn't really.
When we judge another,
There is the tendency to label them,
And when we label them,
We cease to attempt to understand them.
We have created a belief about them,
Labeled them with that belief,
And decided we are right.
This is why we sometimes walk away from an interaction with another thinking and feeling we are not connecting properly.
It's as if we are missing each other,
And that's because we are not having a relationship with the person,
But our belief about that person.
Although the belief was created in the past,
It comes up to the forefront of our consciousness when we are present in their presence,
In the present.
Yesterday's judgment is well recorded and parked within our consciousness.
Today's judgments are well recorded and parked within our consciousness,
And they become the baggage that we bring to today's relationships.
Now think of somebody who you are having a difficult relationship with.
As they come in the screen of your mind,
Drop all images that you hold of this person,
And see them as pure awareness.
Nothing physical,
Just subtle awareness.
Just as you are a being of peace,
Love,
And joy,
They too are of the same fabric.
And notice when you have the next interaction with them,
You don't feel the barrier that you did in the past.
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