When we judge ourselves for our mental experience, we are only making things worse. “What a horrible person I am for having that thought!” “A nicer person would feel sympathy rather than annoyance in this situation!” Did you choose to have that particular thought or emotion, however? If not, should you be judging yourself so? We can release ourselves from the tangled knot of self-judgment by accepting the fact of our experience in the here and now. “These are the thoughts and emotions that are arising in my conscious awareness in the present moment.”
