Let’s start with a review of some previous learning:
Seeing through the mind – Everything that you see and experience, you see and experience through the filter of your mind, meaning your mind at your current vibrational level. As you rise in vibration, you still see through the filter of the mind, but how you see changes because the mind is different at a higher vibration. The mind is simply thought, so as thoughts change, perception changes too.
Judgment – When the ego-mind judges, it compares, and then favors or rejects. Although humans tend to think that their own personal judgment is sensible, it is actually low vibration distorted thinking. It causes the sense of separation and conflict.
Today’s reading invites us to notice how we feel as we look at the world, and then notice that how we feel is based on judgments in the mind. (That is, the decision to favor or reject.) For example:
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- If the mind judges that this special holiday with family is going the way it is supposed to go, I feel happy. If the mind judges that the holiday is not going the way it should go, I get upset.
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- If the mind judges that my appearance is favorable, I feel good about myself. It the mind judges that my appearance is not favorable, I feel bad or self-conscious.
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- If the mind judges that someone’s reaction to me means they think well of me, I am satisfied. If the mind judges that someone’s reaction to me means they do not think well of me, I am uncomfortable.
- If someone makes a negative comment about me that touches on a repressed judgment I have of myself, I get angry. If someone makes a negative comment about me that I see as meaningless, I am not affected by it.
In other words, the way I feel comes from my judgment. This is always true, and there is never a situation when this isn’t true.
This is good news. It means that if I inquire into thought, see ego-based judgment for what it is and let go of it, my perception and my experience will improve.
The challenge is that most people believe their judgments are right.
When we hold onto the idea that our judgments are right, we resist the opportunity to rise in vibration. In order to get beyond the defense of “I’m right,” we need to be willing to see that our judgments are merely low vibration thinking and nothing more than that.
When we see that our judgments are the cause our own unhappiness and they block our ability to see unity consciousness, we discover the willingness to let go of them, because they are obstacles to what we want most of all.
