Healing the Judgment Habit

There is an important distinction between discerning and judging and an article by Jennifer Hadley offers to expose it:

“Many things in life seem painful, horrible, destructive – even evil. Yet if we live in a universe of oneness and divine order, there must be a spiritual purpose to everything, regardless of whether [or not] we see it. 

[Ernest] Holmes taught that evil is [one definition of evil]: “that which appears destructive. And we all know that appearances are deceiving.”

Hadley goes further in her expose, relating the roots of our habit of judging, among others, to what she calls “traditional belief systems” which according to her, don’t support the concepts of divine right order and encourage the judging habit.

“Judging others, and ourselves,” she writes, “is reinforced by traditional belief systems, which don’t support the concepts of divine law. In old belief systems, God is Chief Justice himself, a tyrant who plays favorites and tests us”. In those systems of belief, “God serves as the omnipresent judgment role model. In that old thought system, we search for ways of self-medicating to ease our suffering, rather than spending our energy sharing our gifts and talents. The habit of judgment is not only socially acceptable, it’s encouraged. You might say our culture is addicted to judging.

One can choose instead to be “available for Spirit to bring forth love, healing and harmony” or divine right order.

In conclusion she says:

“When[ever] I’m willing to give up my opinion, I’ll finally have a chance of seeing divine order… Each time I demonstrate my willingness I become lighter.”