Perhaps most people would think of self-judgement as being a single thing which resides in someone’s mind and relates to how they see themselves. We’re going to expand that perception now, along two dimensions.
If we judge other people or the way the world is, it is always a reflection of the fact that we are judging ourselves. So all three of the following are expressions of self-judgement:
- Judgement of ourselves for the way we are
- Judgement of the way the world is
- Judgement of the way other people are
Judgement of the world basically translates as, “My world isn’t the way it should be, because of this factor or event, etc., and I’m not okay with that arising in that way”, which is a self-judgement, because our relationship with the world is a part of who we are, a part of our relationship with ourselves. So it is fundamental rejection of reality, and of self.
Self-Judgements Also Reside in The Body
Furthermore, science has long-since demonstrated that all Shadow Baggage, all self-judgements, also reside in the physical body, specifically in the nervous system. Self-judgements are not just things of the mind.
So in a sense we have a grid of six ‘boxes’ or ‘squares’ (what Kissing Consciousness calls ‘The Grid of Six’) in which self-judgements exist: Three different surface appearances (self, world and other people), multiplied by two different locations (mind and body):
- Judgement of ourselves, located in our mind
- Judgement of the world, located in our mind
- Judgement of other people, located in our mind
- Judgement of ourselves, located in our body
- Judgement of the world, located in our body
- Judgement of other people, located in our body