Judgment & Non-Judgment-2*

Chances are, you’ve often invited yourself to be less judgmental.

In this post, I’m offering you a personal practice:

a ‘how to’ approach to accomplish just that purpose.

I offer it to you as a follow-up of my blog post

(dated 5-09-2024) that immediately preceded this one.

Some of us are naturally oriented to ‘practices’, of course,

and some of us are not.

If you happen to be among the first group,

please check out the following practice to see if it might be helpful to you.

If you’re not, feel free to ignore it,

though you might want to read through it reflectively

to see if anything in it just might strike a chord in your eager soul.

As you know, we all live in five dynamic states of awareness.

These states allow us five unique styles of perceiving and experiencing life.

In this practice, I invite you to spend a few minutes contemplating each of them—

in order to support yourself in embracing a fuller state of non-judgment.

I’m envisioning you as spending 15-20 minutes in this exercise,

spending a few minutes with each of these five approaches,

then moving on to the next one.

Of course, you can modify or change that approach to fit your own style.

1. Our “human” state of consciousness.

As human beings, we are trained to think dualistically and morally:

seeing everything as positive or negative, right or wrong, good or bad.

We can actually use this duality-oriented mind to help ourselves

take more charge of judgmental thinking. For example:

a. Mind-based approaches:

· Ask yourself: What is the deeper meaning or invitation in my judgment?

Once aware of that invitation, say yes to it and follow its prompts.

· Thank your mind for creating this judgment as an uncomfortable but helpful step

toward increasing and strengthening your personal growth.

· Rather than judging your judgments as wrong, undesirable or bad,

welcome them as an opportunity to ‘practice’ becoming non-judgmental.

b. Heart-based approaches:

· Embrace your mind as a supportive friend and partner, here to help you.

· Ask your heart to fill your mind, and this moment, with its love.

· Love your judgment, love your judging self, love your judging mind.

· Forgive yourself (and your mind) for having embraced this judgment.

2. Our “spiritual” state of consciousness.

As a spiritual being, your nature is one of ‘light’ rather than physicality or duality.

Your spiritual consciousness is filled with and propelled by light,

one that comes in many flavors: pure light, healing and nurturing light,

love-filled light, awakening and transforming light, to name a few.

These qualities of light are available to you at any moment—like, right now.

As a light being, you are free from the human limitations

of individuality, separation and boundaries.

In short, you live in a state of ‘unity’ and ‘oneness.’

You’re one with everything, everyone and every situation.

Your state of oneness is a consistent resource for you—always!

a. Unity-oriented approaches:

· Become ‘one’ with the person whom or situation which you’re judging.

· Wrap your invisible arms around them; embrace their heart.

· Merge your own ‘self’ with that person or situation.

· Look at the situation through the eyes of the other person, with compassion.

· If you sense that the person is in pain, ask your spirit to be a healing presence.

b. Light-filled approaches:

· Embrace your nature as a being of light. Be that light.

· Experience your light shining brightly and powerfully—

on you, on the other person, on the situation.

· Invite your spiritual light to penetrate your mind,

shining its laser-like healing into your judgment.

· Notice how light is living in and moving through you.

· Look at everything through the eyes of pure light.

What do you see now?

3. Our “being” state of consciousness.

Your human soul houses an amazing ‘higher truth:’

the truth that everything simply ‘is.’

It also houses an amazing “being:’

You! You as an ‘essential self.’

This is-ness centered you lives beyond all concepts:

especially those of duality, morality, physicality and even unity.

Here, in your deepest soul, you experience only a state of pure ‘essence.’

As your essential self, you are now free to take these approaches:

· Reminding yourself that evaluations exist only in the human mind,

picture yourself now free of all moral evaluations or interpretations.

· Look anew at the person/situation strictly through your “is-ness” eyes.

· Think of, and embrace, it/them as “It just is!” or “They simply are!”

“They are neither right nor wrong.” “They just are what they are.”

· Sit quietly with the “you” that now sees everything as just what it is—period!

· Notice how, now that you’re no longer judging anything, you are more at peace.

· Sit in that state of inner peace for as long as you desire.

4. Our “quantum” state of consciousness.

If shifting your focus from human to spiritual seemed like a big leap,

then from a spiritual one to an ‘essential’ one felt perhaps more extreme,

you’re now in for an even more drastic shift:

a leap from the very concept of existence to one of non-existence,

a grand entry into the quantum world—and the ‘quantum you.’

Welcome to this realm of mystery, magic and endless possibilities.

Here, where ‘potential’ reigns supreme, even your ‘essential’ self is left behind.

In support of non-judgment, try on the following quantum approaches:

a. Possibility-filled approaches:

· Remind yourself that what we call creation is simply an imaginary realm

where any and every possibility has an equal opportunity to express.

· Recall that everything in and around you,

including this person or situation that you’ve been judging,

is simply one possible scenario among so many other possibilities.

· Embrace the object of your previous judgment as simply one of those possibilities,

one that has every right to, and deserves to, be in play.

· Rather than making it about yourself—after all, that self doesn’t really exist—

observe it simply as creation playing out this possibility for its own purposes.

b. Mystery-oriented approaches:

· Picture reality as a giant pool of mystery-filled emptiness,

wherein nothing makes sense and your human mind becomes useless.

· Pour your judgment(s) into the middle of that mystery-rich ‘nothing’

and watch it (them) dissolve into complete non-existence.

· Accept that the previously judged person or event has no purpose

except that of inviting you to embrace its unreality-filled mystery.

· Invite yourself to find the inner peace of knowing nothing

and accepting the total mystery of everything.

5. Our “quantum void” state of consciousness.

You’ve now arrived at the ultimate source of everything: the quantum void.

Complete nothingness, emptiness, non-existence.

Here, nothing exists except, perhaps, the pure fantasy of a ‘something’

that we’ve come to call creation. That fantasy includes the seeming ‘you.’

From this perspective of “emptiness dreaming,” you could:

· Recall that what has appeared to happen has not in fact occurred,

but only appears or seems to have taken place.

· See it—and everything, in fact—as a make-believe fantasy,

an enticing movie, a creative moment of “Let’s pretend!”

· Accepting the complete un-reality of what you’ve judged,

find and embrace its empty, non-existent nature.

· Acknowledging that it has existed only in your human mind,

let it go completely. Watch it disappear—

dissolving back into the void out of which it was imagined.

· Finally, sit for a moment in the inviting embrace

of this all-encompassing ‘nothingness. Drink in this intriguing void,

while it more completely immerses you within its nothingness.

Notice that this ‘absence of everything’ is you,

and you are it.

6. Our collective and "holistic" perspective.

Often, once we’ve experienced different perspectives over time,

we begin to notice them blending together, becoming a unified perspective.

If it feels right to you, look through all five of these lenses simultaneously.

If you embrace this “five-in-one” experience often enough,

you begin to see the entire story of creation, the fuller picture of life—

including your own life—emerging from its ‘over-the-forest’ perspective.

And you find a strange feeling of inner peace filling your depths,

as you notice that, quite by happenstance,

you’re no longer judging anyone or anything.

Quantum Source ... Quantum World ... Quantum Void ... Quantum You!