27/06/2025 Shift Insight

We have some tremendously insightful exchanges going on here below, about the nature of Discernment as opposed to making judgments, of people and situations. So what is the crucial difference, and how can we ensure that we're making choices aligned from the Soul?

The Difference between Judgment and Discernment

First, we need to determine the difference between a judgment and a discernment, because it's fine and necessary to make the latter. A judgment is where you make a fixed opinion of someone or some situation and then form some inner fixed strategy for dealing with the situation - you "condemn" them or the situation without room to change. A discernment on the other hand, you recognise as a perception of the situation, a relativistic viewpoint, that can change, evolve and flow according to the soul.

I'll give you an example of a situation that a lady described on an Openhand workshop that happened to her:

She was walking down the street and coming in the opposite direction was a large street person, shabbily dressed, carrying a bottle of alcohol, and swaggering across the pavement. She wondered should she cross the road? But instead, decided that it was the trusting and loving thing to do to carry on. She got knocked over by the street person!

When we explored it in session, she realised that she was making a strategy to always trust people and their actions - that the divine would look after her. Yet she recognised that the soul was guiding to cross the road. She'd overridden it. In other words, she'd overridden a discernment by the soul. There would be no judgment in the action by the soul, no condemnation of the street person, but the flow wanted her to cross the road.

To be clear, a discernment is where you're noticing a situation as you perceive it to be, but without fixing on a strategy that you "always apply". Instead there's an openness for the soul to then come through and simply act, which would always be according to the flow and the highest interests of all life. It's an in-the-moment feeling response.

What happens to our consciousness when we make judgments?

In the example I described above, you are in the presence. You're in the One. From the One, action simply arises through the soul according to the universal Torus. Crucially this is a spontaneous flow and never the same twice in any given situation. This is the ideal configuration of beingness, enlightenment, that souls are working towards.

A judgment is where you form a fixed opinion of a situation and then inadvertently condemn it to be the same as last time. You're not allowing it to change or others in the dynamic to change. Hence you keep recreating the same patterns and challenges - by the Law of Attraction, you keep manifesting these disharmonious situations.

Most importantly, when you form fixed judgments of people or situations, you're actually defining your consciousness as a fixed identity in relation to them. You cease to be the One and are now limited by the inner identity you've inadvertently created.

The Problem with Fixed Value Systems

Another critical issue to explore are fixed valued systems within yourself, that then cause you to make judgments about a situation, rather than discernments. Take, for example, "That I should visit this particular family member, or members of family, when they are always undermining, judgmental of my path, or even constantly gaslighting me."

It's the idea, the meme and judgment of society's value system that you should be expected to visit people of your family, even if they continually undermine what you do, and are continually negative toward your expression of reality and chosen path.

Why continue to visit them? What's the point? Why would you be governed by feeling obliged?

It may be that you still have something to learn: for example, that your real supportive family is your star family in the ether! It may be that you're still judging and limiting yourself, thereby constantly creating that negative mirror in the outer. Maybe you're still derailing yourself with doubt and disbelief. And thats why you keep manifesting projectional and negative people. In which case, they're a very good mirror, until that is, you develop self belief and belief in your path.

However, once you've forged soul in the situations, why would you now continually subject yourself to that energy? Is it not then right to form a natural boundary and move on? Or, if you continue to visit, being very clear inwardly that's still not due to attachment, and be sure to set your internal boundaries.

The Shift is flowing through Grey Areas

The shift is now flowing through copious grey areas as we progressively unravel the Old Paradigm. Realise that everything is a perception and you could be wrong about a given situation. Work to approach each moment afresh, with a "beginners mind". Believe that a new outcome could be possible from what you expected. Allow for the fact that you could be wrong about a person and that they could change.

This way your consciousness becomes soft and malleable - you can flow through life's situations more effectively and make aligned choices with the Universal Torus. It's going to bring greater harmony and success to your life.

Bright blessings

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