Daily Inspiration: January 13. Reducing Self-Judgment

Imagine a day when you realize how every single step along your path (regardless of how much the ego had programmed you to judge yourself for it) was and is a perfect and sacred co-creation with God. When you take some time to look back at your past, you can see how all of your experiences have helped you become the more mature and self-aware person that you are today. Now, imagine having the vision of God and knowing that all decisions and experiences (past, present and future) are designed to help you understand your true eternal loving essence and nature. What further need for judgment of self and others would you have if you understood that God uses all for good? Imagine being able to see each and every step along your path as a gift that you offered yourself to help you reach a higher level of consciousness. If every step along our path has helped us, in one form or another, become more peaceful, joyful, compassionate and forgiving, would you not call that a successful journey? Now, with the gift of time, we can see how our so-called  ‘mistakes,’ ‘sins,’ or ‘errors’ actually offered us some of our greatest growth opportunities, life lessons and wisdom. If we can be at peace with that, because of our better understanding of our past, can we not also have peace now, knowing that our present experiences will offer our future-self these same gifts? Understanding the useful nature of each moment helps us de-programmed ourselves from our own judgments. With this clarity, we can begin to see each moment as perfect, sacred and good. As our understanding of the nature of our journey increases, our judgments decrease. Now, we no longer need to judge ourselves as less than or not good enough. Now, we no longer need to judge others for the part they played in our awakening.

Your whole life’s journey is what you have come into this world to express, experience and share. You would not be who you are today if it were not for each one of your experiences. Both the so-called good and bad experiences have been of use. Once this is recognized, would gratitude not be the appropriate response to your whole life’s journey? Is it not by overcoming your challenges that you can best help others overcome theirs? Understanding this, can not some of your darkest times not become your brightest light? If you are able to use the bad experiences to help others overcome their own struggles, then were they really ever bad in the first place? Would those you helped, not be grateful for your grit and determination? Are that grit and determination not a function of having to overcome your challenges? Should gratitude not be the appropriate response for your strength and resolve? What point is there to judge something in your experience as bad, if after all was said and done, it helped you become a stronger and wiser person? Is your life experience not the best communication tool that you have to help others overcome their own struggles? They will in their own time, thanks in part to you, overcome their own challenges. They will then themselves have the tools that you taught them. It will be with these tools that they will then use to teach others a way out of the darkness. In the end, not only did you overcome your challenges, and help some overcome theirs, but also those people you helped, will themselves help others. You will actually help many you will never, at least on Earth, ever get to meet. 

Today, let us practice ending our own self-judgments. Being all One, we begin to do so by making the conscious decision to decline the ego’s demands to judge others. What an incredible heavy burden will be lifted off our shoulders when we recall that we have every right to decline the ego demands for judgment. Being all One, when we judge another, we are in essence judging God as wrong. We are in essence saying that the journey that they have co-created with God is incorrect. We will never achieve true peace of mind as long as we continue to unconsciously judge God as wrong. Today, let us practice doing the opposite of judging self or others. That is, trusting fully in God. Trust and non-judgment now become our roads to peace. Now, we trust that each child of God is accomplishing their mission on this planet in the best way they currently know how. The more we trust this truth as true, the more peace of mind we will experience. Each moment of our lives is co-design with our Creator to help us all grow, heal and awaken us to our true loving nature. Today, when the ego once again demands judgment, we simply decline its request, forgive self and others, trust God and experience peace. The more we practice declining the ego’s demands for judgment, the more grateful we will become to those who have offered us the opportunities to forgive, trust God, and fine peace. In this awaken state of mind, gratitude becomes our natural response to all those who are presented to us. Gratitude then becomes a symbol that you are experiencing the present moment as the gift that it is. As you begin to become aware of the gifts within the present moment, your judgments of self and others dissolves back into nothingness from which these delusions came.

Today, if the ego demands judgment: 1) Recall all of the suffering and pain that the ego’s mindset has brought you. 2) Decline the ego’s request. 3) Remember that because God is Perfection, each person’s journey is perfect for them. 4) Forgive your misperceptions of God’s perfection. 5) Place your trust in God instead of the ego. 6) Notice that the more you trust the Divine, the less judgmental you become, and the more peace you have. 7) Be grateful to God for helping you see the situation with greater clarity and understanding. 8) Pat yourself on the back for awakening to this new way of seeing. 9) Be grateful to all those who have been a part of your growth and awakening process. 10) Become an example of non-judgment to others.

I would love to read your thoughts on this post. How does it affect you? How do you think you can implement it in your life? Is there something else that we can add to this post to make it more helpful or complete? Is there something in your own life experience, any life strategy that you partake in, that relates to this post that you think others will find useful? Please be so kind as to share your thoughts with us, in the comment section below.

All glory to God.

Peace, Health, Happiness, Love, Laughter, and Light.

James Blanchard Cisneros

Author of the book “You Have Chosen to Remember”

If you are interested, please check out the video about today’s inspirational message.