Judgment Day Over; Transcend Into Love

I've been going through quite a bit of psychological/physiological clearing for the last year. Aside from work, I've been mainly living like a monk. I've been watching my food/supplements looking for optimal health, exercising pushing in more prana into uncharterered territories, read/watched mainly esoteric material as I find myself gravitating away from material I had once found fascinating, and have meditated my emotional ass off where emotional crap just flows down my grounding cord leaving me two belt knotches smaller (a feat of which two years of exercising/diet couldn't accomplish). 

Although a long way too go and with the fear of losing my sanity, I'm not sure whether it's intuition or just plain smarts absorbing information, my neurons have been firing me with plenty of "ah-hah" insights. The best comparison I can make is akin to how certain teachers/gurus say that they've "downloaded" information. With that, I grasp certain insights here and there, which is what I think we all do. Except, probably unlike others, I try to place more awareness into these ideas. Recently, a friend made a comment about judgment being an issue for him. This morning (11-12-15), the neurons fired off in assessing his situation, which really has plagued all of us. 

I grew up in a protestant elementary school, where we were taught the whole "judge not lest ye be judged". (Matthew 7:1). However, give the followers of this creed any issue from women's rights to other religions and you're left with massive judgment. Another words, this was not a "turn the other cheek" crowd. (Matthew 5:39). This was a crowd who felt all others should hold the same opinion, but done from the fear that those who do not hold such opinions will be condemned to hell (Dante's fiery Hell that is). 

My friend's comment was based on a quote derived from Matt Kahn who stated that you will attract what you judge. Provided that the law of manifestation (attraction) expresses that you manifest what is being held in your emotional body, if we spend our time judging with condemnation, then that should manifest based on the emotions we associate with such judgment. Better stated, next time you're judging someone or something, take note of your emotions and how that feels for you. If you walk around in that emotional state, or should I say "attached" to it (karma), guess what you're going to manifest. 

However, much like how noticing a thought in mindfulness meditation is actually a first step, since you realize you are something beyond that thought and not tied to it, the same applies with judgment where recognizing that you are judging is great first step. In this recognizing, you're disassociating your Self from the circumstance, where you are capable of seeing your ego body that is doing the judging in a third party perspective. Given that the goal is to not manifest that particular emotional attachment, we have to negate that emotional vibration and move into a higher emotional sensation.

In order to negate a judgmental emotion, the only and best method I could think of is simply to love. In fact, I've heard numerous gurus state that there is only one scale of emotions with love on one end and fear on the other. So you really need to increase your emotions to be more, or should I say "feel" more, on the love side. Once you realize that judgment harms yourself more than the object of your judgment, you have to forgive and love that portion of yourself. 

Nonetheless, we've been taught by pretty much almost all teachers that judgment is bad. So as soon as we start to judge ourselves for judging others, we tend to beat our own selves down since we've been given the definition that it is bad. Much again like mindfulness meditation, how many people beat themselves down for having a thought? Move this beyond judging others, we also tend to overly judge ourselves based on the collective societal belief system bombarded on us. For example, we all probably judge our physical body based on the numerous media outlets depicting its ideal version of beauty. So the key is to forgive ourselves for judging others, for judging ourselves, and then send love to those aspects of ourselves and know that it's okay if judgment happens again. We're a work in progress. The goal is to transcend judgment, not overcome or fight it since those situations still leave a form of desire. 

By sending love to yourself for judging others or your own self, when making an honest attempt to stop judging, you shock your emotional body out of that judgment sensation. Like mindfullness meditation, you shock your emotional body's attachment to thoughts. It's like being really engrossed in a film, then having the film cut-off prior to a climactic scene. The viewer is slightly less engrossed in the film and therefore less attached. Hence, you're negating your attachment to judgment. What we are attached to (karma) further manifests in our lives, and negating negative attachments is negating negative karmic manifestations. 

Understanding the importance of your emotional body and the ability to manifest what you attach to it (karma), that makes you think of how religion has been propounded at least since the fall of Sumer/Indus. For were we not taught to feel guilty for our "sins", or live in a society where punishment is more to harm than heal. In teaching a hell, or instigating fear as our news media consistently vomits, are we not moving the audience to have disruptive emotional bodies where they manifest thereof?

Rather than judge and punish, it's time to send love to those aspects of others and ourselves and understand that we are collectively creating these shifts out of our lower emotional sensations. Once we've done that, then will we still need/want to judge, condemn, etc.? It's time to transcend and manifest a new "reality", one where judgment is solely a tool to assess our decisions based on our emotional body.