Gossip is about judging others.  It’s about deciding what’s wrong with somebody else, so we feel better about ourselves. Gossip is not about kindness and love.  It’s about judgment and fear.

Gossip is everywhere.  It’s all over the news.   It’s on entertainment and reality shows.  We have magazines dedicated to gossip, like People and Us. Gossip permeates our culture.  It’s easy to get sucked in. 

Gossip is about looking outside of ourselves for validation and wanting someone else’s piece of the pie.

The top three reasons to avoid gossiping are:

What goes around comes around

What we judge we become.  When we gossip about and judge someone that is exactly the kind of person we are going to become.  

It may be dressed up differently, but we will find a way to manifest the very thing we disdain in our lives.

Gossip reinforces ‘lack and limitation’

Gossiping keeps us small and focusing on, consciously or subconsciously, everything that is ‘wrong’ with us. 

It keeps us in fear and out of the love we so greatly desire.

Gossip keeps our hearts at war. 

When we are in judgment and gossiping, we have a heart at war, not at peace. 

Gossip keeps us in conflict, frustration, anger and sorrow. 

It reinforces everything we ‘hate’ about the world without looking inside and filling ourselves with love.

When others around us are gossiping, we don’t have to participate. 

We can ignore the conversation, change the subject or leave. 

It’s about choosing a new way of being, regardless of the reaction of others. 

It’s about choosing love.