Judgment: The Road To Delusion

By Barry Elwin-Jones

JUDGMENT AND CONSEQUENCES

We can be drawn into others people's consequences by giving consent to their actions or by judging their behavior. The energy field that links us together works on all levels, spiritual through physical. We constantly put out energy for the approval or disapproval of our friends and family. When energy in any form comes to you from another person, the judgment you put on it ties you to it, regardless of type of judgment made.

 Love, compassion and allowing keep you free and independent of others' consequences. Without judgment, you remain free. Being drawn into other people's issues is often our downfall. We can discuss matters, advise carefully and be there for someone, but judgment is the banana skin we slip on.

 Our past determines our perception of truth in this moment. Because we have placed judgment on past events and people, we cannot see clearly in the present. When we judge a situation, we have said that we know the answer to this person's problem, but no two people tread the same path. No two people share exactly the same feelings. No two people experience the same reality, so how can we know what is exactly right for another soul?

 Skilled counselors carefully guide people to their own solutions, and if they are wise, do not make judgments. I liken others' issues or energies to a cobweb of energy, swirling around looking for similar vibrations to blend with. If we wish, we can become entangled in them, and soon they have become ours as well, filling our lives with the issues of others and leaving little or no time for us. We become emotionally bankrupt and physically exhausted, of little use to ourselves and no good to anyone else. It is far wiser to send people to qualified counselors and supplement this action with love and compassion and any physical support they may need.

 Judgment generally happens so quickly that we don't even recognize we're doing it. Immediately after the judgment is made, the emotion resulting from that judgment floods in and we are overwhelmed. Then decisions about how we are going to react to this situation are filtered through past experiences, and this completely obscures the truth of what is actually happening in the now.

 There are three steps to breaking out of the judgment cycle. First, learn to stop judgment, but also be tolerant and understanding of yourself as you learn mastery. Second, control your emotions. Don't suppress; allow them, feel them and let them go just as you would do with a thought that you no longer desire to have. We do not have to react to our emotions any more than we do our thoughts. We do not deny what we think; therefore do not deny what you feel.

 Third, look to past judgments to determine where the thought was born. The thought, the emotion and the judgment possibly had absolutely nothing to do with what is happening in front of you. The truth cannot be seen through the past, or we will be in delusion. The absence of judgment lets us see truth.

 SEEING EXPERIENCES WITHOUT JUDGMENT

Problems begin to accumulate in our bodies as we judge people and events in our lives. What we judge as good, another person may judge as unacceptable. Ten people in a room will judge the same event ten different ways. You tell me who is right? Letting go of judgment is so difficult because we have trained ourselves to be so good at it. Seek to understand your current judgments in the light of past events.

 THE KARMIC WEB

Every thought we think, every word we speak and every act we commit is community property. Just like fish in the ocean, each movement sends vibrations out through the sea around it. Our thoughts generate a vibration in our energy fields that attracts thoughts of a like vibration. Continued negative thinking generates a heavy and depressing atmosphere in our aura and soon repels people near us. The opposite is true of course; positive thinking and positive emotions attract others. Even when we're mired in negative energy, however, our Inner Lights still manage to shine; people recognize our lights and come to our aid in times of need despite the outer blanket of negativity.

 THE EGO'S GAME

When we involve ourselves in others' problems, our spiritual development is put on hold while our ego tells us how wonderful we are for saving people from themselves. For thousands of lifetimes, we have involved ourselves in the karmic play of birth, death and other people's issues. How long are we going to continue to put off our own spiritual growth? How much longer are we going to play the avoidance game by busily looking after others so that we don't have to look at ourselves?

 Interacting with people is how we learn, but the lesson needs to be brought back inside and integrated from within. EVERYTHING THAT YOU EXPERIENCE IS HAPPENING ON THE INSIDE. EVERYTHING IN LIFE IS AN INTERNAL EXPERIENCE. Life is an inner journey. Eventually, we realize that we are not consciously enlightened enough to fix every one else's problems. When we do enlighten ourselves, we demonstrate allowing with love and compassion, not interfering. Taking away others' opportunities to learn makes it all the harder for them next time, and binds you to them karmically, so that you will need to experience lessons together.

 RELEASING YOURSELF FROM THE GAME

Your love and compassion will do more for your sister and brother than ego-driven rescues, no matter how major they may be. The hiker who leaves the lost and fearful group to find the trail home refuses to play the game of fear and illusion and of being lost, and strikes out fearlessly, ignoring the cries from the others that they will surely perish if left alone. After finding the way, the hiker returns to the lost ones and shows them the way home. Meanwhile some have died from fear, but the majority is saved. If this person had stayed with the group, they would have all perished. This person is the real hero in life.

 Save yourself first, then go back and show your light to others. This is the ultimate rescue. It takes more courage to show the way than to follow. This does not mean you abandon those who need a helping hand; it is the way you give assistance that counts. Love and compassion are your tools. Each person needs to play out the roles and learn the lessons of his or her individual path, and move on without interference. Don't weave unnecessary karmic webs - become free.

 WE'RE THE KEEPERS OF OUR OWN KARMIC RECORDS

There is a third aspect that sometimes we find hard to understand. Lessons come to us that don't appear to relate to our current state of mind. We may have for some time been positive and loving, working hard to improve; yet the lesson seems to come from the past that we have left behind. A simple and apparently harmless statement can trigger these lessons. A word can reverberate into the universal energy and bring back to us a long lost situation that we believed we had dealt with. The lesson can also come in a form that is not easily recognized. Nothing that we need to release is forgotten under karmic law. It is all written in our records, of which we are the keepers. We determine the timing and intensity of lessons through our thoughts, words and actions.

 CREATING OUR OWN LESSONS

We write our own karma. We arrange our own lessons by the vibration of the thoughts, words and actions we release into the cosmic ocean. Our moment-to-moment thoughts create the next moment, and so on it goes. We are also the ones who have the say over what goes and what stays. Our counselors in spirit help us between lives to modify our behavior so that each lifetime is better.

 Absolutely no one interferes, however; it's up to us. We are the masters of our own destinies. Nobody does anything to us or for us. For us to receive from spirit, we must have first have earned it. At our disposal is the most loving non-judgmental law that allows us to learn our lessons in our own time, with the infinite patience of our Creator seeing only perfection in us. That loving law is the Law of Karma (aka, the law of action). This law creates a most intricate web, sensitive to the subtlest vibrations. We reap exactly what we sow in each moment.

 The process of growth does not cease after each lifetime, so it follows that the energy of the incoming soul will attract what it needs for its chosen lessons. Whether the lesson comes in childhood or adulthood, the soul still learns and moves on.

 We bring with us vibrational records, belief systems, likes and dislikes. In other words, we bring a whole lot of influences that we have not dropped off between lives. Therefore, we really never start the next incarnation with a clean slate.

 A child of six months has a highly developed belief system already in place; the beliefs just have not fully become part of the consciousness. Then parental influences and life experiences modify and mold them, many times ruining them as well. We have all marveled at how a young child has likes and dislikes and is individual in characteristics foreign to the parents. On the surface we see a child, but in fact the soul may be far older than you or I, and perhaps much wiser.

 With regard to the parents, having no solid belief system one way or the other does not guarantee anything but confusion in future karma. Our beliefs along with our thinking and focus put vibrations into motion that in turn create our realities (future karma). The universe can only deliver what we ask for through the vehicle of our thoughts, words and actions. The soul's journey is totally in line with the need to learn and grow. Lessons chosen are the right and choice of the incarnating soul.

 We may continually ask questions about why things happen, but we will never truly know, for the journey is sacred to that soul. We must honor each individual's path as his or her own. Whether the experience is an entity attack or a disease, it is of no consequence; it is the lesson that is important.

 It actually matters little what we do, it is WHY we do things that is important. This all relates back to the vibrational history we bring with us. With all of these chosen experiences, whether ours or another's, we can choose to express love and compassion to the suffering soul so that we may ease the pain and lighten the load. This is essential to spiritual learning. Love and compassion may sound like echoes of many other teachers' philosophies, but these answers come from thousands of years of wisdom, and are easily found in all religious teachings.

 Reprinted with the kind permission of the author, Barry Jones.

Barry Elwin-Jones is a reikimaster  and offers training in Higher Human Values to both organisations and individuals. The training is aimed at assisting people to recognise  and utilise their own inner power. Please visit his website at http://www.lightpaths.com.