Expansion and contraction is just the nature of consciousness: # 1

1)---When a judgment arises, we lose touch with our Being-ness and suddenly feel very small.

2)---A judgment shrinks our attention onto the content of the judgment.

3)---We 

get caught up in the content and keep ourselves busy (at least mentally if not actually) trying to make life fit these judgments.

4)---Consciousness naturally expands, when we stop our effort and involvement with the content of our thoughts, we usually experience an expansion—a natural relaxation and broadening of our awareness.

5)---Anything—the color of someone’s pants, the electrical outlet, the temperature in the room—can be experienced as a simple observation or can trigger a judgment. Most of our experience passes as observation. We’re actually only capable of having one judgment at a time. Most of what’s in our experience right now is not a problem for us at all. Many more things register in our Being as neutral than as judgments.

6)--- Check this out for our-self: The next time a judgment arises, ask our-self what was coming up just before that. We will often find something that seems uncomfortable, and the judgment serves to temporarily contract our awareness off of the discomfort.