Greetings.
This is a talk about how to move out of judgment.
Many people are suffering from being in a perpetual state of judgment.
Our ego minds judge what we do not understand.
If it witnesses behavior that it does not like,
It takes offense and judges the person behind the behavior as stupid,
Hateful,
Mentally ill,
Violent or the like.
One result of being in a state of judgment is a short-lived feeling of superiority.
We get a little hit or high from perceiving ourselves as better than or above those we judge.
Unfortunately for the ego,
This elevated response to judgment is temporary,
Which means we will experience a further call to judgment in order to maintain or repeat the elevated state.
Despite this temporary lift,
The state of judgment is not pleasant over all.
It keeps the mind focused on negativities about others,
Circumstances or even towards ourselves.
Often it keeps us engaged in unfair comparisons between ourselves and others.
It associates with feelings of insecurity one is trying to overcome.
At the root of judgment is fear of what we do not understand.
It hurts us more than it hurts those we judge.
Since it is not our true nature to sit in judgment,
It depletes us of our energy,
Our joy and our health.
Yet there comes a time when each of us desires peace of mind and peace of heart above all else because we have had enough of this suffering.
When that time comes,
Then you are ready to give up judgment and choose for your peace instead.
To Muda,
Move out of judgment is truly a decision.
You choose to forgive what you do not understand rather than judge it.
You recognize that the essence of every person is light and love and you also know that poor behavior towards others is the result of false ideas about oneself,
Unhealed hurts or inner wounds and projection of those hurts onto others.
You also realize that you never have all the information,
So your perception of others is most likely not the whole story.
Remember that hurt people hurt people,
Yet these hurts are temporary and can be healed because they are not part of the essential self.
What if instead of judging someone,
You choose to ignore their presentation and instead focus on the underlying light and love that they are,
Thereby energetically amplifying the truth about them?
If on the other hand you continue to buy into the reality of their presentation,
Your energetic frequency will be in agreement with the signals they are sending out,
Which will serve to hold them right where they are.
You may not be able to see any evidence of their light and love because they are so deeply surrounded by dark energies.
In this case,
You will have to have faith that the truth is present in them despite how it appears.
Sometimes we are judging others from our biases about what is true,
What is good,
What is fair,
What is valuable,
What is correct.
In these cases,
You have to ask yourself why you have made such a judgment and what you get out of it.
Chances are,
You do not really know the purpose or the value of the attributes,
Opinions or actions of others as they relate to their lives.
For example,
I may judge someone for their addiction,
But it turns out that the experience of having and overcoming an addiction results in this person becoming a strong support,
Advocate and teacher of others with addictions.
Who are we to pretend we understand the meaning of people's life experiences and to what they lead?
So we judge what we do not understand and we also judge what we presume to understand when we truly have no real knowledge of the greater purposes of the elements of a person's life.
A little humility is called for.
Scientifically the frequency of energy generated by individuals can be measured.
We know from the work of Dr.
David R.
Dawkins and others that superiority generates a frequency of 1.
9 hertz.
Fear and judgment are low frequencies in the range of 0.
2 to 2.
2 hertz,
While love,
Compassion and gratitude are in the range of 150 hertz and higher.
Ultimately you move out of judgment and into your peace out of concern for yourself.
You love yourself enough to want peace of mind and once you have tasted it,
You will not want to trade it in for anything.
When we open our hearts to the flow of love and light through us,
We see how valuable it is and how truly insignificant is the little hit the ego gets from judging.
An oft quoted line from the Christian Bible is,
Judge not,
Lest ye be judged.
Who is it that will judge you if you engage in judgment?
It is you.
You will judge yourself for the same perceived indiscretions for which you judge others and this will keep you out of your heart.
Judgment is not compatible with love and love is what you are.
So let's pause and do a mini meditation to begin the process of letting go of judgment.
Forgiveness of yourself is an essential step as most people are their own worst critics.
So think now about something you hold against yourself no matter how trivial.
Does this self criticism keep you from feeling good about yourself?
Does it get in the way of having inner peace?
Does it interfere with self love?
If so,
Would you like to change your mind and heart so that happiness is more accessible to you?
If you had a little child,
Envision what you would say to your little child if they had the same issue you have.
How would you speak to them if they were overweight or made a mistake or failed at something?
Would you not be supportive,
Forgiving and allowing for change in your young child?
You can choose to adopt this same attitude toward yourself instead of demeaning yourself for holding your past against you.
In your mind's eye,
See yourself talking to yourself with kindness and compassion about this issue.
Try a little tenderness.
If you have been mean to yourself,
Forgive this as well.
Often we think harshness or punishment will motivate us,
But in fact it does just the opposite.
Give yourself a warm hug on the inside.
You are always doing the best you can with the understanding you have at any given time.
Appreciate this fact.
Now perhaps you want to forgive but do not know how.
If so,
Then I would recommend the Hawaiian practice of Ho'oponopono.
You can learn more about this very simple but powerful practice in my recording about it on this app.
Forgiveness may come easily to you in some situations and be extremely challenging in others.
It takes commitment and practice.
Now think of a situation about which you have judgment of another or a group of people.
You may sense annoyance,
Irritation or frustration.
You may feel frustrated that the position or actions of others make no sense to you.
Just be with these feelings.
As you sit with your judgment,
What conclusions do you come to about this person or persons because you do not understand their behavior?
Practice if you feel you are superior,
Smarter or more conscious than them or better in some way.
Pay attention to how good this assessment feels to the ego.
Does it feel good to judge others for their religion,
Employment,
Political persuasion,
Races,
Opinions,
Appearances,
Sexual orientation,
Interests,
Social status or relationships?
Be with the feelings without trying to change them.
Be honest.
Own whatever comes up.
Now also contemplate how it feels to be judged by others for your choices,
Your associations,
Your appearances,
Your color or ethnicity.
What comes up inside you towards those who judge you?
When you see that judgment both given or received cuts us off from our hearts.
But it does not have to be this way.
You can remember that love is our true nature.
You can ignore the presentation and hold to the deeper truths about yourself and others by forgiving the presentation and trusting that if you had all the information about the people in the situation you would understand how they arrived where they are.
You would have compassion for their pain,
Awareness of their defenses and the ability to forgive the temporary feelings and conditions behind their choices.
You simply don't have to have all the information to know that if you did you would understand.
So are you willing to choose to forgive what you don't understand for your own peace of mind?
It really is that simple when you are motivated to protect your peace and happiness.
Do you see that if you learn to stop judging yourself harshly it will be easier to also stop judging others.
I know there are those who will respond to all this by saying that the people they judge are in the wrong.
The truth is there is always more going on than we understand.
It is arrogant of us to think we have a full grasp of what is going on with others and why they take the positions they do.
People have subconscious contracts with each other to act in certain ways for the purpose of exposing false beliefs.
Those who make our lives the most difficult are often our greatest teachers but we don't get to realize this if our hearts remain closed.
Sure,
If someone has harmed you,
You need to get away or set boundaries.
But if you remain in judgment about this person over the long haul,
You are the one who will suffer because judgment will keep you out of your peace.
Your love,
Your peace and your happiness are solely your responsibility.
You choose for or against these every moment by how you use your mind,
What you store in your heart and what memories you keep alive.
Each of us has the power to choose for love and peace each moment despite appearances and we do so out of love for ourselves.
When we value our peace,
Our joy and our quality of life,
This choice becomes paramount.
Begin today with your relationship to yourself by recognizing that despite mistakes or personal challenges you are an infinite being of high vibration having an experience in a dense environment which we call the physical.
You can choose to express your true nature,
Your high energetic self by refusing to keep judging yourself as unworthy of higher states such as peace,
Love and joy.
You can forgive whatever perceived weaknesses you have and treat yourself with kindness and respect.
Opening your heart toward yourself will raise your vibration.
Forgiveness is the first step toward releasing judgment and each of you can do it.
It is a choice.
You will find that when you love yourself deeply and fully then you can learn to love others unconditionally as well.
Bright ones,
Thank you so much for listening and I wish each of you a judgment free day.
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