Looking Without Negative Judgment or Analysis

There is a vast difference between LOOKING and THINKING and between LOOKING and ANALYZING and between LOOKING and ASSIGNING MEANINGS to the things you look at.

The valuable of being able to simply LOOK without thinking, analyzing or assigning meanings is amazing. In actual fact it is impossible to have upsets, problems and difficulties if one is simply LOOKING.

To begin, or expand, your understanding and experience with this, I invite you right now to do the following exercise.

  1. Pick an object in the room and LOOK at it. Put you attention on LOOKING, on seeing the details of what it is you are looking at.
  2. Now, let's look at some of the MEANINGS you may have attached to what you are looking at. Do you consider it pretty, nice or just OK?
  3. Now notice the DIFFERENCE between the object itself and its MEANING (i.e. the value judgment that it is pretty, nice or just OK).

In actual fact there are only two things in the universe - STUFF and MEANING. We look at a piece of stuff and we say, "that's nice", or "that's ugly" or "that's of value" or "that sucks."

We look at stuff and we assign meaning. Often we assign meaning so fast we don't notice we do it. We see someone doing something and we say to ourselves, "That's dumb." We have just made a value judgment. We have just assigned a negative meaning. We have decided, "That's dumb."

Now a negative meaning assigned instantaneously produces a negative effect within ourselves. The principle is, NEGATIVE MEANING - NEGATIVE EFFECT INSTANTLY. POSITIVE MEANING - POSITIVE EFFECT INSTANTLY.

Strip the meaning of "Dumb" off the action and we would simply be observing an action. Simply LOOK without judgment, meaning or analysis, and you will simply see what is. You may also be amazed at what you begin to see if you do this for any period of time.

Now, attempting to NOT THINK or NOT JUDGE or NOT ANALYSIS while you are looking will most certainly result in your thinking and analyzing. The idea is to put you attention on LOOKING not on attempting not to think.

Simply practice LOOKING and it will all sort out.

 

THE LOOKING WITHOUT JUDGMENT OR ANALYSIS EXERCISE

This is a very simple and basic exercise. Two people sit facing each other. They then simply LOOK at each other and continue to LOOK without making any judgments of any kind. You do not speak and, for the most part, you look into each others eyes.

The focus is on LOOKING. It is totally OK to smile and enjoy what you are doing.

Thoughts, ideas, judgments and impulses to think and do other things will of course occur. The idea is not to try and stop these for you would then be doing an exercise called, "Trying to Stop These." You simply let these things drift by and focus on looking.

The exercise is very simple but not always easy.

In doing this series of WonderTech Life Mastery Exercises, I recommend that you do at least ten minutes of this at the start and end of each exercise session.

Periodically, do more. In fact it is highly valuable to continually increase the duration of the exercise. The idea is to develop the ability to continually look without judgments when you choose to, and thus be able to do it in daily life. "How long can you simply look at another without judgment?" is a question I invite you to answer and then expand the time you can do it.

How long can you look before you create boredom? (You don't truly Get Bored. Getting Bored is an effect viewpoint. What you do is make judgments such as, "this is stupid," or "I have had enough of this," or "I have decided that there is no more value to get out of this," and then you quit simply looking without judgment and begin the exercise called "Creating Boredom" or "Creating Thinking" or "Creating Analysis of What I Am Doing" or any one of a billion other things you could do rather than simply Looking Without Judgment.

In actual fact the amount of gain you can get from doing this exercise is unlimited. The number of things you can discover if you continue to LOOK is unlimited. The number of details you can see if you continue to LOOK is unlimited. The amount of astonishment and excitement you can get out of LOOKING into the very soul of another is unlimited. The amount of LOVE you can experience doing this drill is unlimited. The only thing that limits it is your decision to limit it by, ceasing to do it for any reason or doing something other than Looking Without Judgment. I invite and entice you to discover that these statements are true.

In doing the exercise, one person keeps track of the time and says, START OF EXERCISE and END OF EXERCISE after the agreed upon time has been reached.

Start off with a couple of minutes and then extend the time to ten minutes and longer.

If one of you suddenly has a big win or great experience of some kind, it is OK for either of you to express it and then continue the exercise (or not, as you choose). Also, if you are the time keeper, and you notice your partner really light up or have some great win, that is a good time to end off the exercise. Ending on a win is always a good guide line.

After you have completed an exercise session, always ask each other:

 

  1. How did it go?
  2. Did you find that you were able to LOOK without making JUDGMENTS?
  3. Were you able to LOOK without analysis of what you saw?
Again, as far as I can tell there is no limit to the gain one can get from doing this exercise. It can be a doorway to magic and I invite you to treat it that way.

 
John Michael Rafanello
WonderTech's Chief Visioneer

 
 
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