My family moved around a lot when I was younger, so my sister and I were very fortunate to be exposed to a lot of different cultures and way of thinking, helping us to open our minds and broaden our perspective. During the process, we also encountered many bourgeois, suburban people who like to live in totally conformity and looked negatively upon anyone or anything that didn’t fit. My sister and I often felt victim to such thinking, and we came to detest such judgement.

But one day, in conversation with my sister, I came to realize…we’re doing the same thing they are — by judging judgement!

Although the thought repeatedly nagged me in the back of my head, I had no idea what this meant for myself or what I need to do — until I started my Dahn Yoga practice.

Through many different BEST 5 workshops, I was able to expand my brain and consciousness to see what judgement really is for myself. It was just my defense mechanism — a way of rejecting anything that I felt had attacked and hurt me in the past. And through this, I found a very quick way to escape resolving whatever pain I felt inside and simply blaming the situation.

And now I understand that even judgement has a different side of the story too. People who judge certain things in other people have somehow built up preconceptions from certain experiences in the past. And the strongest ones probably come from the most deeply painful experiences. And through understanding this I can much more easily embrace and love judgement too — fully accepting without judging that judgement.