By admin 
What would happen if, just for one day, you decided not to judge anything?
Not forever. Don’t worry. Tomorrow you may judge again if you really miss it. 
But today, just try.
Perhaps you will make it for a minute before the first judgment appears. Maybe ten minutes. An hour. Half a day. Perhaps you will suddenly notice at dinner that you have been surprisingly quiet inside. And if you make it all the way until bedtime……wow !!
But this is not a competition. There is nothing to win, and certainly nothing to feel guilty about when you discover that your mind seems to have been professionally trained as a full-time judge.
Because that may be the most interesting part of the experiment: simply noticing how often we judge.
We judge people, situations, weather, politics, traffic, clothes, food, ourselves. He shouldn’t have said that. She always does this. This is ridiculous. That person is selfish. I handled that badly. This day is going completely wrong.
Judgment slips into our thoughts so naturally that most of the time we don’t even recognize it as judgment. It simply feels like an accurate description of reality.
So if you discover that you cannot stop the judgments in your mind, try something easier: don’t say them out loud.
Let the thought come, but don’t give it a microphone.
This can reveal something quite funny about us. Why do we so often want to tell someone else what we have judged? Perhaps because a judgment feels much more convincing when somebody agrees with it.
“Did you see what he did?”
“Yes! Unbelievable!”
Ahhh…..what a relief. Now there are two of us. It must be true.
But what if today you simply leave the judgment where it appeared? You notice it, you don’t fight it, you don’t condemn yourself for having it, but you also don’t send it out into the world looking for supporters.
Something unexpected may happen.
A little space appears between what happens and the story you immediately tell yourself about what happened.
And in that small space there may be more peace than you expected.
So try it.
One minute. One hour. Until lunch. Until dinner. Maybe until bedtime.
And whenever you catch yourself judging, there is no need to think, Oh no, I failed again! That would simply be another judgment joining the party.
Smile, notice it, and begin again.
Just for today.
With love and light,
Gonny