Little Disturbances

When you spend time with friends, family or colleagues, do you focus on what you like about them? Or does that one annoying little thing they do dominate your awareness? Do you ever wonder why your attention lingers for so long on the negative stuff? Maybe it’s...

Judging the Outside?

We’re in charge of where we direct our attention. What we focus on and how we interpret what we see is what determines how we feel. When we find ourselves focusing primarily on negative aspects of people and situations, we might need to take a look at how...

Self-Esteem

The way we treat others affects our own self-esteem because our subconscious mind understands the truth that we’re all one. When we verbally or even mentally criticize someone, it registers the judgments as if they were about ourselves. Our self-esteem has a...

Judgments Are Clues

It may be ironic, but the behavior we don’t like in others often reflects our own. It’s far easier to dislike in others, the behavior we don’t like in ourselves. It’s difficult to objectively see faults in ourselves because our egos are...

Judgments Are Reflections

What we wish and envision for others eventually becomes our own reality. Our thoughts and words about them always affect us first because our subconscious mind makes no distinction between us and them. Harsh judgments lower our self-esteem because, when we judge them,...

Condemnation Is a Clue

The better we feel about ourselves, the less likely we are to talk about others’ inadequacies. We still recognize our preferences, but we don’t waste time cataloguing the ways others don’t measure up. Catching ourselves in such behavior is a perfect...