In my writings and videos I often write and speak about mindfulness. In talking about mindfulness I emphasize the present moment, yet I am aware of how our past and our future work together. The definition of mindfulness instructs us to live in the present moment, nonjudgmentally.
“Nonjudgmentally” means we need not put a value judgment on the present moment. We are simply to experience the moment. The minute that we think this is a good moment or a bad moment, we have judged the moment.
The issue with placing judgement on our present moment means we lose a bit of the experience because in our judging, we’ve already made a determination within ourselves as to what we feel is happening. Our judgement may not be true to the experience. We may not be feeling or experiencing the moment the way that we think we are, so if we spend some time feeling what we feel before we label it as good, bad or otherwise, we might come up with a different experience.
[For more of this story, written by Christopher Shea, go to http://psychcentral.com/blog/a...ed-through-baseball/]
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