What is Judgement?
Judgment is measuring something and then not allowing the measurement to change. The way society measures something is often very different than how individuals measure life.

KINDS OF JUGDEMENT

Personal Judgment

A person uses judgment as a fast way to sort through options and to make choices without thinking.

Social Judgment

Societies use systems of judgment to maintain “order” and a balance between its membership. Judgment is all about measuring what is right and what is wrong to keep those with power in power.

Judgement vs. Judgment
Judgement has two spellings. It doesn’t matter which one you use. Judgment is in more common use. To practice releasing judgement, I will freely use both spellings, as in judgment, people will insist on only using one version.

No Judgement
Releasing Judgment isn’t easy. We measure ourselves all the time. Most especially to time.

You see time represents relationship and relationship is just filled with all sorts of measurements. So it doesn’t take much before a person is judging everything as you compare time and relationships.

What is the issue about judgment?

Judgment allows no true change.

Without change, we lose our spark of individuality and uniqueness in the world.

The trouble with judgment as a way to measure oneself, it limits how much change can enter one’s life. Worse once a person begins to judge their life, it forces them to push their judgments outward, to judge other people’s lives to maintain the balance of their judicial system. Judgement forces everyone to have all the same answers to life. Once a person makes a judgment, they very rarely take it back, and then often only under great pressure and conflict.

Judgmental individuals very rarely have inner peace, since judgment produces a busy schedule trying to force placation of the outside world to personal measurements. The process of pushing one’s truths and beliefs onto others is the attempt to maintain personal balance. A judgmental person must always defend oneself against outside changes. Many judgmental individuals are too busy attacking others even to notice they lack inner peace until they slow down. Because of this, they rarely do slow down; they continuously work to ignore the many problems of their lifestyle.

So how does one live without judgment?

One truth is: Opinions are not judgment, that it’s OK to have many opinions!

Opinions by nature do change! Opinions are your personal feelings on an issue or situation at a given moment. As we age, a person discovers more information which will be used to shift your opinion to include the new facts. When opinions are not allowed to change over time, they slowly harden, a person shifts into becoming opinionated and this is the edge when they begin to hold to their opinions as if they were the truth. 

Once holding your view as the only truth, it means your opinionated outlook has calcified into judgment. Once opinions have mutated into judgments, it’s tough for a person to change their views and actions. In western culture, the trend is to push opinions into becoming judgments, and that is the terrible mistake most people make.

In a judgmental culture, opinionated people are view upon as the trouble makers!

Judgments are measurements that we don’t allow to change easily. Opinions, however, are small snapshots of time, of looking at the world but snapshots that are allowed to freely change as we discover new information, as we expand our awareness.

To learn how to live without judgment is to learn how to appreciate and respect opinions, yours and others. To use opinions to test and explore the world with but never to measure the world either.

Judgment always contains the seeds of its issues. No human judgment system can be perfect. When perfect, it would mean no free will could exist. When perfect, there would be no questions, no grey areas, no wrong actions, merely only always right actions. Being human by default, exploring the nature of being a story… means making mistakes and being able to fumble around a bit. Seemingly a perfect judgment system is for ants, bees, termites, and robots. Let’s hope, we never witness humanity becoming too trapped by its judgment systems, and yes modern humanity is at risk of being trapped by codified judgment systems.

To be judgmental is to live life to a very defined set of rules with effectively limited (or no free will) choices. To live in this manner means to limit one’s potential and to live in a manner that reduces one’s graceful possible actions. Very few people like to be “judged” since to be judged is often to be measured by an outside set of rules. People only willingly accept judgment from others if we believe they support the same values we base our life upon.

SO DON’T BE JUDGEMENTAL

EVEN THE ONE WHO WAS BEING JUDGE COULD BE THE JUDGEMENTAL!

Thanks for reading!!!

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