The Daily G.I.F.T. from The GratiDude

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Morning Platitude from The GratiDude

Going back about four years ago or so I made a conscious effort to reduce the amount of judgment that I have in my thinking and my consciousness. I realize that judgment of others is one way that I limit my ability to connect and to fully appreciate the unconditional love that is my default program.

I don’t want to limit my default program.

Now what I don’t want to do is start judging my judgment and being hard on myself because that would just put me into a tailspin. Instead, I decided that I would recognize when I’m feeling judgmental and replace that sense of judgment with a healthier type of thought which is rooted in curiosity.

Shifting to curiosity is also a quick reminder that the only thing I’m reacting to when I judge someone is my own thoughts because I don’t know anything about that person. All I am reacting to is simply my own thoughts and assumptions coming from their appearance or whatever details I can extra extract from a particular situation or a meeting or an encounter.

Curiosity and judgment can’t operate together at the same time. That’s why it’s so cool to replace judgmental thoughts with curious thoughts.

What I did going back those handful of years was I used a physical queue or a reminder on my body, and I wore a sterling silver ring that had a reddish stone in it on one of my fingers.

I wore this ring every day for a full year as a concerted effort to practice daily or reduction in judgmental thinking.

My ring became a curiosity ring.

When I would feel judgment and myself, deciding that I knew what was going on with someone else, I would take some deep breaths and touch the ring and use that as my queue to move into a state of curiosity and start to imagine all of the different scenarios or details about a person that are equally or were equally plausible Just to disassemble my original assumption, or thought about that person, and to show myself that those judgmental thoughts are not valid. Furthermore, their negative energy and they’re a waste of time.

According to many spiritual and personal development perspectives, yes, being judgmental is often considered to lower your frequency, as it is associated with negative emotions like criticism, negativity, and a sense of superiority, which are seen as vibrational states that pull you towards a lower energetic level.

Why is this the case?

Negative emotions:

When you judge others, you are often tapping into negative emotions like anger, resentment, or superiority, which are considered to have a lower vibrational frequency.

Closed-mindedness:

Judging others can limit your openness to new experiences and perspectives, which is seen as a barrier to a higher vibrational state.

Self-perception:

Judging others can also reflect an internal judgment of yourself, further contributing to a lower frequency.

Key points to remember:

Discernment vs. Judgment:

While it’s important to have some level of discernment in life, excessive judgment is what is considered to lower your frequency.

Focus on self-improvement:

If you want to raise your vibrational frequency, practice self-awareness and work on releasing judgmental thoughts towards yourself and others.

I’m giving you a peek into how my mind works and the ways that I hold myself accountable to learn and grow based upon the information that I’ve received from my higher self and from other fields of information. My assumption underlying this is that I have unlimited capabilities and capacities that I’m not even aware of and I need to keep pushing myself to learn and grow so I can explore the extent of my own talents and the wide range of my life experience.

I was the same height I am now in 10th grade playing JV basketball and I usually drew the slowest weakest defender on the other team at least at the beginning.

I ended up leading the team in scoring that year, not that I was pouring it in for 30 points a night as my team leading average was something like 14 points a game.

Nonetheless, I never saw a shot that I didn’t like and was not too concerned about shooting percentage as much as getting my licks in when I could. The defender who started the game guarding me, often got switched out in the first quarter because I’d usually score half of my 14 points on the fat, slow kid and then have a pretty average game after that.

The other teams always judge me by my appearance, and didn’t even take the time or energy to see if I could shoot during warm-ups and instead they just put fat Albert on me and cross their fingers.