Our building project has been on hold awaiting the roof trusses. They were finally delivered yesterday afternoon. We are now awaiting eagerly the arrival of the workmen. Hopefully some building will happen today.
Teachers teach what they want to learn. Even in cases where they spout knowledge by rote, they are trying to learn something. Teaching cannot be separated from learning. The subject today is one in which I have just recently developed insight to and I am still attempting to fully grasp.
It appears that every judgement we make limits us in some way. Even those little judgements we think of as teasing or joking chip and chisel away at our ability to feel love. We isolate ourselves with our judgements.
I am learning about how we are all connected through our heart/mind connection. There seems to be actual energy flowing between us.
In each individual there exist a connection with the heart center and the brain. We feel love in our heart and it flows up and bathes our head space. When we are open and relaxed we can actually feel the energy in our chest area expand and flow through our whole body. As we go about our daily life we are more aware of our thought processes, than our heart center, but that doesn't mean our heart center is shutdown, it continually communicates with the brain adding insight and broader understanding. What we call intuition. The heart center is what saves us from the cold and often erroneous logic of the brain.
The ego doesn't thrive in the presence of an active heart center. The ego likes to control by using fear. It is constantly on the alert for things that it sees as dangerous and attracts thoughts in an attempt to control. The ego shuts down the heart center with thoughts that cause hurt feelings. When our feelings are hurt we isolate ourselves. We build a wall around ourselves for protection. We may hurl word bombs over our wall but we won't let anything in.
So how does judgement fit into all of this? How does judgement cause pain? Imagine for a moment that we are all functioning perfectly. We are internally connected. Our hearts and brains are working together. If we pay attention, we are aware of our love for each other. Then one of us makes a judgement of an other. It need not be vocalized, at some level all are aware of the happening.
The person who has the judgmental thought limits the flow of energy from his/her heart center. To the degree of the judgement he/she becomes a little colder, perhaps more calculating. Less love energy bathes the brain and some loss of connection happens with all the other folks.
The person who is being judged begins to limit their connection with the one judging. If they have good self esteem, they may be able to dismiss the judgement as an aberration but they will be wary and a wall, perhaps thin at this point, will come up. If they don't have good self esteem their feelings will be hurt. They will isolate themselves from the other and if inclined will throw their own bombs over the wall.
To some degree this is a continual ongoing process. We all do it. Our judgements cut ourselves off from others as well as ourselves. With every judgement, no matter how big or small, we isolate ourselves and impair our ability to love and appreciate the world and those around us. In moderately good relationships we continually make course corrections. We forgive ourselves of our own judgements and of those close to us. If we keep our eye on love and value the intimacy with the other, we attempt correction as soon as the judgement manifests.
However, even the smallest judgements, things we don't recognize as judgements, we may think they are mere observations, chip and chisel away at the other person. This can become an unconscious process. We don't realize what has happened until a rip roaring fight erupts. At this point both feel they are in the right and the other has slipped their moorings. Then the fight is not a negative as it serves to reconnect. However, there are easier ways to do it.
Each one of us needs to look at it from our own personal point of view. Of course we are concerned and compassionate for others but this is something we need to do for ourselves. As much as we may hurt others with our judgements, we hurt ourselves more. With every judgement we isolate ourselves. We sever the tie between our heart and our mind. We retreat into some facsimile of ourselves. We can't express love or feel it from others. We dig a moat around ourselves and wall ourselves off from our feelings. The worst outrage we can feel is that no one loves us and the conclusion we come to is that we are unlovable. The barrier around us becomes filled with rage and that is a painful obstacle to deal with. We don't realize we have done it all by ourselves and to ourselves by embracing one little judgement after another.
The good news is that no matter how much we in-cyst ourselves with pain and rage, we can walk out in the bright light of day at any time. It is much like a butterfly emerging from a not so attractive chrysalis. All that we need to realize, is that it is all not true. It is an illusion created by our judgement and it can be over in a second.
Once we realize judgement is not something to play around with, we become alert. We dismiss such thoughts from our mind as soon as they are recognized. When we continually turn towards love we protect ourselves from the consequences of judgement.
The old energy of divisiveness has gone. It has been replaced by the energy of inclusion and togetherness. Soon judgement will be impossible in the brilliance of love that encompasses humanity.
Love and Peace, Gregg
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