Nonjudgmental Awareness
Nonjudgmental Awareness is the simple action of refraining from automatically cataloging experiences with people, places or things with immediate terms that assign positive or negative beliefs, such as good or bad labels that generate bias, division and closed mindedness.
The Negative Ego mind control has conditioned humans to be excessively judgmental, which promotes Mental Rigidity and stunts emotional growth and learning from others. When we are judgmental, we constrict ourselves into small spaces that generate limitations that block Self Awareness. When we are nonjudgmental we are being open minded, we allow our mind to expand through the ideas, perceptions and experiences that are shared through others lenses. In this way we gain a much larger perspective that includes more people, and we gain greater knowledge, Discernment and feelings of shared experiences and unity. We are willing to deeply understand and tolerate others because we have Empathy and we know many people have different view points and values than our own.
Stopping Judgmental Behaviors
If you find yourself being judgmental in your self talk or directing judgmental views towards others, especially in superficial means where you know nothing from direct experience about that person, observe yourself and stop yourself from continuing the train of thought or feeding into Malicious Gossip. Choose loving kindness. By making the effort to deeply understand others perceptions and to have Empathy for them, will help you to better understand how they feel and the reasons why. Put yourself in their shoes and ask how they are feeling.
Discernment
Discernment – Without using ego judgment test the personal Resonance of people, events and circumstances that you choose to engage with or exchange with, determining which is either aligned to your person or not aligned to your person, in that moment. There is no right or wrong answer, only personal resonance and choice. That answer may change continually in different timelines depending on when you ask the question and what powers of discernment are cultivated. Learning personal discernment builds our necessary boundaries to discover what is productive and supportive for fulfilling our spiritual path or not. Discernment allows for continual productive growth and for the effective use of our personal energies and focused attention. By upholding our personal boundaries and applying discernment towards all things that we focus our energy and our attention upon, we are more effectively managing our Consciousness and life force.
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