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The
Universal Law of
JUDGMENT
Our life becomes more like the judgments we make.
Judgment: The Process of forming and giving an opinion.
The Law of Judgments states that both our inner and outer life will always correspond to the judgments we are making. To the degree that we consciously practice right judgment we will experience prosperity, freedom, and joy.
Conversely, to the degree that we unconsciously engage in any kind of negative judgment, we will experience lack, limitation, and loss.
There’s a passage in The Sacred Writings that points to the effects of negative judgments:
Judge not, and you shall not be judged.
The Baditude of Judgment
I refer to the tendency of judging negatively as the Baditude of Judgment. Few tendencies are more self-defeating than that of judging negatively. Negative Judgments will do to your life what bad infections do to your body. The Baditude of Judgment can quickly turn the potential for an abundant life into the reality of hell on earth.
Example: “This economy is in terrible shape!”
Negative judgments are a double-edged sword because every time you judge anything as negative you strengthen in yourself the very negativity of the judgments you’ve made. Judging the recession as terrible intensifies feelings of terror and leads you to waste countless hours complaining with other lost souls. Complaining worsens your own economic life because when you complain about your problems they multiply.
Judging with non-judgment and acceptance
The right use of this profoundly important law is found in the extraordinary qualities of non-judgment and acceptance. Non-judgment is any judgment that is free negativity. And acceptance is the acknowledgement that the current condition of your life requires you to take certain actions coupled with your willingness to take those actions without complaint.
Example: “The economy moves just like the ocean.”
Instead of judging the economy as terrible, see it as being like the tides in the ocean; sometimes it’s high and sometimes it’s low. Accept it for what it is, as a temporary condition, which requires you to take certain actions, and then take those actions willingly rather than dreadfully. Non-judgment and acceptance allows you to go through any low tide with courage and grace.
There’s another passage in The Sacred Writings that promises a good life to those who practice right judgment:
Judge with right judgment and good shall come unto you.
Set an intention to practicing the law correctly by avoiding the mistake of making negative judgments and being more about non-judgment and acceptance. And good shall come unto you.
REFLECTION
- How would your life be different if you stopped negative judgments and practiced non-judgment and acceptance?
- How ready and willing are you to begin that shift?
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