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Staying on Track with Tickles and Sparkles #11 January 24, 2008 Written by Julie Humphrey Greetings from Julie, I hope you are having a great week. Just a quick reminder we will be going into a Mercury Retrograde on January 28th 2008 to February 18th 2008. If you have any questions about the retrograde please feel free to email me julie@ticklesandsparkles.com How to stop being in Judgment of other people? The other day I was thinking to my self what will I write this weeks newsletter on? What can I write that will get people to thinking in a higher state of mind. Then I got the word Judgment! it hit me from out of the blue. Well since then I have been pondering what judgment really is and why we are so unaware of our own judgment of others. I am sure that every person on this earth has at one time or another been judgmental of another. In fact I am sure that you have probable been in judgment of someone today, maybe it was on your way to work or even at home with a child or spouse. It could be a judgmental comment about someone you work with. If we take a moment to think about all the judgment we put out each day about someone or something it will over whelm you. Just watching the news on TV can put you into the state of judgment. Think about why we are a society that is motivated by judgment of others but do not even want to think about being judged by someone other than ourselves. Oh! and we definitely judge ourselves and at times quite harshly. When we look into the mirror we judge the way we look, I know I have been hard on my self at times. But there are many times when I look beyond the judgment of my self and see the beautiful spirit that is truly who I am. I hope you will do this next time you take a look in the mirror. Each person on this earth is different, some are thin some are tall some like me are short. Some people are overweight and some are underweight. Some people think in terms that are so radically different from ours and what happens? We judge them for this difference. We judge people who are not the same race as us, what ever color you are I am sure you have made a judgment of another because of his or her skin color. As I think more deeply about this subject I could go on and on about the judgment we have created as a people. Lets say you and group of friends are meeting at a local restaurant for lunch, as you sit there listening to the people around you what are you hearing? is there talk of how good life is or is there talk of others that are not around to hear the gossip about them which is undoubtedly judgmental. Yes we all are guilty of this kind of gossip but how can we change it? I am sure that there must be a way to open our minds enough to listen to that little voice inside that says, "Judge not least ye be judged." We have to constantly remind our self to not say the negative things that instantly come to mind as we go through the day. We have to constantly recognize if our thoughts are judgmental or thoughts of love and kindness. I know this is a big responsibility to take on and that at first it may be a challenge to keep unkind words and thoughts from becoming a judgment of others or our self. But with practice anything is truly possible and we are here to learn and grow. My challenge for you this week is to practice keeping track of what you put out into the universe by way of judgment. Think about this statement "if you do not have something nice to say do not say it." By becoming conscious of our thoughts and actions we will more easily be able to recognize when we are going into judgment. You can think of it as a lesson in retraining the brain. As we all know our thoughts are energy and when we voice them this energy grows, it flows to the person you have talked about or thought about and if it is good the person will feel it with love and harmony but if it is negative it can hurt this persons feelings and make them feel down. I am sure that no one means to hurt another's feelings by purposely sending out negative energy. It is up to you now to start creating a less judgmental society and to show others by your own actions how much you love them. We are all responsible to our self and others for the actions we take each day no one can make us think or say something mean to someone else. It is a choice we make if we like something or not, but we need not decide what others should or shouldn't like or do. God gave us free will, I think we are expected to use this free will with love and gentleness in all manners of life. "I would love
to hear from you how you have let go of Judgment of others" Affirmation of the
Week If you are interested
in finding out how you can bring in more positive awareness into your
life and make some wonderful changes I now have openings for personal
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