Judgment

The interesting thing about judgment is that when we judge that it’s a bad thing, we’ve lost the point! Judgment is simply making a decision whether something is good or bad or scary or safe based on some sort of historical information.

Tony Robbins says “the past does not equal the future.” Thank goodness, this is true. It enables us to change and to become more of our authentic selves. When we know better, we can do better. If we base our understanding of the present only on what we know about the past, we are surely limiting ourselves and the world. When we let go of what we know and look at things more as possibilities, we set the stage for miracles to happen.

We can deceive ourselves by believing that if we keep everything the same, we will be safe. The fallacy of that is that when everything around us is changing, we are not safe by not changing with it. Our desire to rest on our past achievements will certainly put us in a situation where eventually we are forced to change.

Judgment isn’t bad, but it is limiting. As soon as we judge something, we have limited what it can become because we’ve energetically put boundaries on it. Whether good or bad judgments, each has the ability to prevent us from seeing the truth of a situation, person, place or thing. Our best bet is to simply experience situations, people, places and things as they are. Doing this enables us to experience all of the parts of what’s happening without the judgment filter applied.

It makes for a fuller, richer experience and keeps life interesting. It also keeps us from sometimes putting a square peg (new experience) into a round hole (past similar experience).

Try this: go through your day with the intent that you will be aware of your judgments. It’s a fun experience as long as you don’t judge your judgments.

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