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worksheets .Mindfulness WorksHeet 5a   (Mindfulness Handouts 5–5c)
nonjudgmentalness, one-  mindfulness,  
 effectiveness c hecklist
Due Date:       Name:                   Week Starting:  
practice nonjudgmentalness:  Check off an exercise each time you do one.
     1. Say in your mind, “A judgmental thought arose in my mind.”
     2. Count judgmental thoughts.
     3. Replace judgmental thoughts and statements with nonjudgmental thoughts and 
statements.
     4. Observe your judgmental facial expressions, postures, voice tones.
     5. Change judgmental expressions, postures, voice tones.
     6. Stay very concrete and describe your day nonjudgmentally.
     7. Write out a nonjudgmental description of an event that prompted an emotion.