Model how to listen to someone non-judgmentally.
Mindful eating means purposefully paying attention, non-judgmentally, to the experience of eating.
The training and deployment of this skill involves paying attention, on purpose, in the present moment, non-judgmentally.
My friend acknowledged it pleasantly and non-judgmentally, while I repeated it, as if confessing, almost wishing it weren't true.
Each time you gently and non-judgmentally notice your attention wandering and actively bring it back to the object of your meditation, you are strengthening your mindfulness muscles.
Mindfulness is not about trying to change things, but accepting them as they are, non-judgmentally, with as much kindness and gentleness as possible.
Mindfulness is not about trying to change things, but accepting them as they are, non-judgmentally, with as much kindness and gentleness as possible.
You can do all of this while engaging in "experiential acceptance" — a willingness to non-judgmentally remain in contact with negative emotions, and other difficult experiences.
But the researchers found that the only facet of mindful parenting that seemed to increase an adolescent's well-being is non-judgmentally accepting one's parenting skills.
"Self-compassionate persons, accepting both suffering and loss, allow themselves to non-judgmentally engage in self-appraisals rooted in warmth and kindness". (Shapira&Mongrain 2010).
Weerasethakul begins non-commitally, non-judgmentally, with a bunch of Thai army reservists in uniform in the northern forests, crowding for a group photo while one of their number readies his digital camera.
