Use Mindfulness to Help You Be Less Judgmental 

Mindfulness is a powerful tool to push judgmental, fearful, and unkind thoughts away 
from yourself. It’s applied both in attitude, practices, and behaviors. When it comes to 
judgments, we often both internalize harsh and critical thoughts upon ourselves and 
project such thoughts onto others based on their past actions or our predictions for 
their future actions. Mindfulness can help circumvent such negative judgmental 
thoughts. 


What Is Mindfulness? 

With mindfulness, you’re able to be fully aware and present in what you’re doing, 
where you’re at, and everything else your senses take in, and put distance between 
happenings and your reactions. Mindfulness combines this awareness with the ability 
to not let circumstance and thought overwhelm you or cause you to be overly 
reactive. In other words, you’re not on autopilot. 

Each human has a natural mindful nature. However, in today’s highly sensory world 
of hustle and bustle and technology distractions, being truly and completely mindful is 
something that takes practice and improves with each application. Did you know that 
research shows that you can actually remodel the physical structure of your brain 
with mindfulness? 


How Does Judgment Improve Through Mindfulness? 

Our ancestral background makes us social creatures by nature. Humans have long 
lived in tribes, making social judgment (both self-directed and outwardly directed) a 
huge factor in our mindset. It wires us to regret the past and fret the future, which in 
turn sets you on a path of negative reflection to find faults, activate criticism, and 
inflict judgment. 

Mindfulness is used to downgrade negative emotional responses so that judgments 
are less reactive, less personal, and less important in your hierarchy of feelings and 
needs. By living in the present moment only, you don’t fall on the stumbling blocks of 
your own and other’s negative judgments. You become more self aware and self 
accepting. 

Your thoughts and feelings can be carefully observed without the weight of judging 
them as good or bad. There’s an increased connect with your own physical and 
emotional state without getting sidetracked by self-criticism and judgments. 
Mindfulness allows you to weed out and control destructive feelings. You examine 
the current moment as it is, not as it relates to the past or might relate to the future. 


Mindfulness to Avoid Judgment Must Be Consistently Applied 

Keep in mind that mindfulness isn’t some unrealistic goal of eternal calm or muting 
the mind. As you feel judgmental thoughts invade, simply take note of them and allow 
them to pass by without judging them, yourself, or others. 

The thoughts may try to capture your attention, pushing you back or forward into the 
weeds of negativity. When this happens, gently bring your thoughts back to the time 
and space at hand. Mindfulness is all about this consistent and recurring process of 
bringing yourself back to the present moment.

