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  • Jane Cornelius posted an update 6 years, 6 months ago

    Finally sharing my judgements from the first call.. been noticing them as they come up. They are not always there, they feel less heavy than before but still there under the surface, in how I show up sometimes, in decisions I make or don’t make, in what I expect from life or other people.

    I judge my body as too fat and gross and ugly.
    I judge myself and my behaviors around eating and food as disgusting and embarrassing and shameful.
    I judge myself as not good enough for a relationship. That I’m not loveable, that no one will want me. I judge myself as a failure in past relationships and not enough.
    I judge how I relate to other people all the time. That people think I am wrong or dumb or annoying.
    I judge myself at work as lazy. I judge my lack of career advancement as lazy and pathetic and judge myself as a failure because I haven’t done more with my life.
    I judge my behavior around finances as terrible and judge my past mistakes as wrong and bad.
    I judge myself for not being a good daughter and then judge myself for caretaking and enabling my mother.
    Underneath it all I know these are all the same judgements. There’s something wrong with me. I’m not good enough. I’m wrong, I’m bad, I’m a mistake.

    • I really relate to the sometimes subtleness of judgments and sometimes not subtle at all. Judgments are so hard to witness. I truly feel the sting of them and know how deep that harshness can go. Reading these makes me feel so much compassion for your experience. Gentleness comes up for me.

      • I could feel the harshness reading them back to myself, even though as thoughts in my head I don’t recognize that harshness when I’m telling myself these things. But witnessing them outside of myself I felt compassion toward the girl that’s been telling herself these things her whole life. And a desire to be more gentle with myself.

        • That’s such a win Jane to have that awareness of..Whoa, I’m being really harsh with myself and intend to be more kind and gentle. Next steps are catching the harshness and bringing in the gentleness. You won’t be perfect at this and you won’t want to strive for that but imagine catching yourself sooner even a couple of times a day. Over time, this makes a huge difference.

    • Beautiful process Jane. I share a lot of these same judgments in my old story. As I read through your post, it brought up a lot of compassion for the human condition and the awareness that it is all part of my spiritual curriculum. I’m open to the learning that these judgments are here to remind me of my divinity and the more I align with it moment to moment, the less reminders I’ll need or notice.