Why do we spend so much of our time focusing on what other people are doing? And why do we feel the need to constantly comment on it?
While technology has helped our world grow closer together, it’s also being used to tear us a part. Now that we have access to most everyone’s inner thoughts and feelings online, we feel entitled to an opinion about it. But when we form an opinion about someone, positive or negative, it’s teaching us to become the judge and jury. We’re no longer seeing the world in its variety of hues and colors, but as black and white, right and wrong, good and bad.
So the following practice asks us to open our minds, rephrase how we label others, and refrain from making a snap judgment. Use this when you find yourself getting frustrated by a situation you can’t control, or after holding onto anger from any emotional encounter.