Letting Go of Judgment and Experiencing Reality Posted by Gini
Grey on November 15, 2011
Letting go of judgment allows you to experience reality
as it is.
In order to experience reality as it truly is with all its
vastness and richness, we need to let go of judging others,
ourselves, and situations.
Judgment stems from the mind where we carry our limiting
beliefs, distorted memories, and duality perspectives. Our
intellect can be a handy tool when used wisely, but when we let it
dominate it whittles everything down into small pieces to fit into
even smaller categories so we “think” we understand things.
In reality life is too grand, too vast, and too diverse to
understand, let alone judge with our analytical minds. But as we
drop judgments and think less, we open up to our higher knowing and
experience the vastness without needing words to explain. We feel
present, clear and unlimited.
We’re rapidly evolving into higher levels of consciousness than
ever before – some call it unity consciousness, Christ
consciousness, or heart consciousness. The name doesn’t matter, but
the experience of it does. Judgment blocks us from experiencing
this higher dimension where we see all the colors of the rainbow,
not just the ones we’ve been conditioned to see or expect to see or
think we’re allowed to see.
Outside of judgment our energy flows with ease, our body knows
how to perform at optimal levels, and the words “should or
shouldn’t” don’t exist. Freedom is the only rule. And as we grant
ourselves freedom, we share it with others.
How to Let Go of Judgment
Many of us on the spiritual path to awakening know it isn’t
helpful to judge, yet we do it anyway, and then we judge ourselves
for doing it. Or we spew our charged opinion on those who will
listen with the tag line: “all judgments aside,” as though that
makes a difference. Any form of judgment casts a shadow on reality
so it all has to go.
Here are some suggestions for letting go of judgment.
Let go of stories. We all have our stories from
our past. We carry them around in a backpack in case we need them
one day to justify our current fears and limitations, or to bond
with another. But all this does is weigh us down by attaching us to
past painful experience, and to the shields and guards we erected
to protect ourselves. We can’t see reality as it truly is if we’re
looking at ourselves, other people and life situations through our
stories. None of our stories shows the whole perspective, only our
limited view at the time. And this is one place judgments stem
from. Trust yourself that you are safe without your stories.
Drop opinions. How often do you base your
opinions on what you’ve read or heard from another? Does that make
it so or does it just stem from another’s perspective based on
their stories and beliefs? Opinions often contain a right vs. wrong
or good vs. bad perspective. When you transcend duality, you see
that things are simply what they are – no bad, good, right or wrong
– just experiences. The next time you are about to spout your
opinion ask yourself if it comes from your experience, or higher
knowing, or if it stems from fear, rumor or ignorance.
Move beyond beliefs. Beliefs are just ideas we
think are real or true, yet we what we believe today is much
different than several centuries ago and what we’ll understand
tomorrow will look different than today. When we put our faith into
a belief it gives us a sense of identity and safety, yet this is an
illusion. Beliefs can’t create anything except limitation. They box
us into a perspective from which we judge everything else by.
Spend some time reviewing your beliefs about men, women,
different cultures, money, political parties, and anything else you
judge in life. Then ask yourself if what you believe is 100% true
reality. If there is even 1% you’re not sure about, you’re missing
the whole picture. Then take another stance and look at the people
and situations you have opinions about from the opposite
perspective. Notice how your beliefs change depending on what lens
you look through. If you detach from your beliefs, you’ll let go of
judgment as well. Then the beauty of reality will reveal
itself.
Accept yourself. Anytime you judge yourself,
you slip into the ego mind and you prevent yourself from healing,
growing and being the bigness that you are. We are here to
experience, grow and have some fun along the way. There is no wrong
way of doing life, and we are only responsible for ourselves. Even
mistakes are a part of the rich experience we came here to have.
Fully accept all of you and you will blossom.
As we let go of judgment we move out of the head and into the
experience of our higher selves. This is a rich, clear, present
space from which to experience reality as it truly is.
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