> We have heard this many times in the walk of our personal growth. This phrase has much more weight than what you would think. You are probably thinking that this applies to those events you see on TV or with the interesting things you see with your neighbors. Have you ever thought that this applies to every instant of your life, in every situation that you live and in every thought? Are you getting confused? I hope so. Your confusion is a state of mind that is preparing your for new knowledge.
> In every situation you are judging. When you interact with family members you are judging what is good and bad. When you go to work or school, you are judging how is good or bad. When you see someone in church that is badly dressed you start to judge that the person could be just a slob, a lazy person, a thoughtless person, a person that lacks respect and much more.
> How many times have we been in a situation where you judge someone that you just met and afterwards you find out that the person was totally different to your first impression? This should give you a clue that you are really not good at judging people. And if you are not good at judging people, why do you work hard to judge people and with that decide on important decisions on your life?
> What makes you special or better to judge others? Do you really have your scales of justice well calibrated to have the degree of master judge?
We dedicate so much time to mental and verbal judging and we dedicate so very little time to judging ourselves. To judge ourselves is not so that you can set a verdict of “hell” or “heaven” on yourself. Listen carefully; I want you to be the judge of your own life. For the moment forget about the “hell” and “heaven” verdict. The act of judging ourselves is so that we can calibrate our own evolutionary processes and to be masters of our life. It’s a process of learn and improve.
> Everyday we must seek to be better, to be better in the game of our personal judgment calibration. And as time should go by, we will reduce even more our habit of judging others. Are you seeing what I’m asking for? I’m asking you to be less prejudice.
> Another thing to keep in mind is that our judgments are calibrated according to our own personal values (your life experience, your education, your programming, and your evolutionary stage). So, every human has a difference set of values. Our judgments cannot be the same; they could be similar on some occasions. Remember that because we do not have the same values, this should tell you that YOU do not have the absolute truth. You are likely to be wrong.
> In conclusion, every time you think you are judging. Try to be more sensible in your thoughts. Do not assign yourself the task of judging others, this task is not for you if you have only been on this earth for few years of existence.
> One final comment, we also need to learn to forgive ourselves. If you are a tough judge on yourselves, you have to learn to forgive yourselves with the same or more desire.
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