Creating
Space
“Today
I shall judge nothing that occurs.”
A
Course in Miracles
According
to the blog, Deciding to be Better, non-judgment “creates silence
in your mind.” It opens up space for creativity instead of the
negative thought patterns that always follow judgmental ones. Being
judgmental leads us away from ourselves to a less than positive
place. In that place, we attract to us the same energy we are putting
out—negative attracts negative. By practicing non-judgment we help
ourselves lead a more positive life and attract to us positive life
circumstances.
If
you're like me, your mind is trained to judge. At some point in life,
being able to make an accurate judgment call may have been necessary
to survival—or at least felt necessary. A child in a less than
ideal living situation will develop the keen ability to register
tension in a room, and powers of observation that tell them when
things are getting dangerous. This hyper-vigilance becomes habitual
of necessity, and can become a life style if we never consciously
attempt to change it.
We
can take the law of attraction to a whole new level by focusing on
what we want our life to look like. We open ourselves to creativity
and the flow of positive energy by disconnecting from our judgmental
mind. Practice may need to come by degrees. We might not bite off a
whole day, but perhaps one hour at a time by giving ourselves the
affirmation, “I will not judge anything that occurs this hour.”
When a negative thought arises, we can repeat our affirmation, or
remind ourselves, “Remain neutral.” It is a practice, however,
and all practices take time. Be gentle with yourself. It is the child
in you who learned this, so treat yourself as you would any
child—tenderly and with patience.
In
the Spirit,
Jane
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