In my life, I have come to realize a current blind spot. I hold myself to rather rigid and best effort life practice. These come from the typical trilogy of body, mind and spirit. I don't think I have had many blind spots in addressing the needs of the body, since this became a passion in High School, and a profession throughout life. Food, fasting, herb's, fungi and other super nutrient's since the 60's. I have maintained a high level of activity and exercise throughout as well. My blind spot simply was allowing judgement to co-mingle with my walk.
The fact that the least tolerable, common experience, that I regularly encounter, is other's who feel a right to visibly and verbally judge other's. For these people, I become judgmental myself. This is a cosmic snowballing; what go's around, comes around. Judging judgment is not at all bad, but casting judgment at people is, for me, an unacceptable family value.
When you separate action from person, you are able to have both discernment and compassion. Why do people express their value's or belief's, to other's in a big nurse portrayal? Fear? High Stress or problem's in their life? We often fear things that are significantly new or different. This can lead to self-protection, which I have been told is a form of violence itself. The expression "survival of the fittest" involves creative adaptation to the necessities of continued life and species reproduction. Microbes learn and adapt to prescription medicines, plants travel with time, to their adaptive homes. Animals learn new way's and new food sources as long term changes occur. For the "high on the food chain" species, survival involves overpowering and consuming other species of life. For the giraffe, adaptation involves a very long neck, reaching the unconsumed highest leaves of the trees surrounding the tundra.
So, when we encounter surprising, new and profoundly different experience our reactive, self-preservation leads to run, hide or fight responses. Our fight or flight chemistry has a sustained influence on many, many aspect's of life. Digestion, sleep disturbances, confused thinking are a few of the obvious consequences of sustained and elevated adrenalin. So, for me, I believe that judgin other's for behavior is, and has alway's been an unacceptable village practice.
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