Are you feeling stuck, not quite yourself, more negative than positive, anxious, worried, bored, numb or apathetic to life? Do you notice that when you make changes in your life you often end up in a similar situation as before the change and again...
We all should love ourselves and love all others, but this is difficult for most, if not all. Although it is difficult for us to fully love ourselves, it is not always easy to see the aspects of ourselves that we dislike or like about ourselves. The ego does an incredible job of hiding how we truly feel about ourselves, but there is a way around that deception. The key to uncovering your dislike of certain aspects of yourself may be found through our judgment of others. Think about what bothers you most about others. When you are talking with those close to you and you are complaining about others, what are you complaining about? When you think about others, what behaviors are you passing judgment about? If someone is neglecting their family, are you complaining about their behavior and not realizing that you are in some way neglecting a part of your life. It may not necessarily be your own family, but it could be some aspect of your life. It's the neglect that you are judging. Anytime you hear someone judge another person for what they do, how they act, how they look and so forth, these people inwardly judge themselves for those same aspects. Just think, do you judge others about things that you are satisfied with in your own life?
Think about the most recent judgments that you have had about others. If you are not able to think of any, over the next week, notice when you make a judgment on another person or group. Take a note and then compile all of the specific judgments that you had during the week and write them below. Now here is the difficult part, take those judgments that you made on other people or groups and turn it on yourself. Specifically, take the judgments one by one and think about how those judgments may be directed toward yourself. Write down those comparisons using the space below.
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What did you discover about the people in your life and your judgments on others? Use this as free thought. Write whatever comes to your mind.
Or draw... (maybe you are not not interested in always writing, possibly you like to draw, create music or record a conversation with someone about what you have learned. Again, this is something that you can do with any of the observation sections.)
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