Without Fault

From an evolutionary experience, our brains are hard-wired to quickly find faults in our environment. 

It helps us survive if we sense what is wrong to avoid danger. However, societal messages may feed us ideas that everything is broken, aging, falling apart, and in need of repair. 

But what if it isn’t? 

Picture a person, your home, your body, your job, etc. What would it be like if you didn’t see any faults? 

We might be a lot happier in our lives. I notice that I can get very curmudgeonly if I’m always finding fault with everything around me. If I stop looking for faults, suddenly I’m less annoyed and disappointed in everything and everyone.

As individuals, we are habituated to noticing places for improvement, but that leads us to chronic discontent.

And chronic discontent leads us to frustration and agitation. 

And that leads us to more blaming, judging, and criticizing of others. 

And that ruins our relationships and our wellbeing. 

It is in everyone’s best interest if we can stop our fault-finding habits. 

If you are noticing a pattern of feeling discontent lately, pause this week and let your brain entertain for a moment that something or someone is without fault. Can you feel the shift inside you when you consider that? It’s liberating.

Life becomes a lot lighter when we stop fault-finding. 

Finding-faults has become a language we bond in, gossip we engage in, and it fuels our consumer spending. It is a low-energetic-toxicity that we get in the habit of swimming in and we don’t even realize we have become so negatively biased in our lives.

You don’t have to work at finding good right now, just stop the fault lists and the rest will fall into place. 

There is a lot of beauty and good around us, but sometimes we cancel it with our habit of seeing what's missing, broken, or imperfect.

Try seeing the world around you without fault today and see what happens. 

Sending you love,