Confessions of a worry wart: Judgment

Alot of things come as you sit and self reflect and as I traverse my new journey of discovering how my fear has effected my life I learn a new shocking fact each time. As a worry wart I am very hard on myself.  It becomes so easy to pass judgment on myself and to critize not only what I have done but even what I have yet to do which honestly limits my progress in every aspect of my life.  I seek growth every day so when I discovered my fear made me judge not only myself more critically but every one around me I was heart broken.  I wish to be someone who lifts people up at all times.  I wish to be a light for others and for myself, but in my fear I first start to break myself down little by little which invites my criticism of others to abound.  

My opinions of myself and others get in the way of being truly loving and accepting and we are works in progress,  always,  so my "opinions"  have no place in my relationships or my knowledge of people.  I recently read that the scariest part of the word opinion is the word "pin."  I love this because it describes what our opinions can do to others.  In my fear I have regarded others opinions of me and judgments to be gospel.  With this has opened doors to that three letter word pin. It causes us to be pinned down in expectations but we are more than we appear.  So by enabling ourselves to be pinned down by others we limit our our growth and our gifts from manifesting in our lives.  I suppose this entry will remain short because I just want to say first I'm sorry to everyone in my life for limiting our relationship, limiting who you are and doubting who you can become from the fear that has resided within me.  Then I will also apologize to myself because it all starts with you!!!  Learn to love yourself,  embrace yourself and push yourself to your limits because I do believe if given the opportunity we would be AMAZED at what lies within us.  I know that there is more than meets the eye to us all and just ask over the next week that we all try to love freely,  accept others without judgment and remember people can only affect who you are as much as you allow.  As I read this book I'm reading I hope to share with you my new discoveries and hope it helps you to free yourself of your judgments and the judgments of others as it starts to help me.