Silence the Damage

 Silence is one way to minimize the damage that can come from judgments.  You see a person, place or situation and you make a judgment about it in your mind, and emotions spark up.  BUT then you don’t say anything.  You keep silent.  This is not to avoid a needed response.  It is to silent a lethal response that improves nothing, and can make matters worse with no useful change.   Silence might be the best response.  Or this silent pause, might allow for a more useful response to come forth that is not filled with vitriolic judgment that separates us.  We want a response that builds relationship not create chasms that divide us into enemies.