Judgments are assessments frozen in time. They may be conscious or unconscious. As soon as a judgment is created, our whole system contracts and it shuts down other possibilities. Judgments are sticky and not easy to release.
Judgments are illusory. Whether they are positive or negative, when the thinking mind draws conclusions and has lost it capacity to be curious it believes what it sees is real. Our practice is to remember that we are not our minds if we want to stay away from righteousness and calcification.
There is a distinction to make between reality and truth. Our truth is personal, it combines our infinite and finite self, our physical experience, and our wisdom. Our truth needs to be uncovered and can change through our life. Reality is it and we don’t really have access to it unless we have mastered the mind which most of us have not.
Self-judgement is often rooted in fear, impatience, and overall, our thinking mind. Our homework is to tune into self-love. Self-love is not a practice of complacency; it takes courage, humility, and consistency to experience equanimity, an important quality of love. A meditation practice, if done the proper way, will develop our capacity to listen to our fears, our needs, our attachments, and our dreams. If we stay steady in our practice, we will fall in love with every part of us including our self-judgments.
Peace to all…
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