Through non-judgment, you switch focus from the negative to the positive. If you’re viewing the world as bad, ugly, problematic; or judging those around you as arrogant, selfish, sinners... then your focus is subconsciously negative. Often you don’t even realise this.
Even those on the spiritual path might go through life thinking they are focused only on God, but by engaging in subtle labelling this is where you are dwelling; this is what your energy fields are emanating and this is what you are creating in your current realities every moment.
Through a conscious practice of non-judgment you could train your subconscious mind to remain in a positive state of being.
As the journey deepens however, ‘thou shalt not judge’ becomes the gnosis that ‘there is nothing to judge outside us’ since the world and its people are but reflections of Self.
This often leads to a phase where you do not judge the outside or other, but begin to flagellate Self as the source of all that you meet as life.
This serves a vital purpose initially; because when you realise that it’s all about you, you cannot distance yourself from the qualities you’ve been projecting onto others and perhaps for the first time you make an effort to change the source that is you, rather than pass the buck outside.
Self-blame is not a healthy frame of mind. However, once Self-blame has turned your attention within, you are ready to move on by coming to terms with the fact that there is nothing like ‘bad’ or ‘evil’ to judge. Because all your facets are aspects of the One God or Self choosing to experience its different aspects for a larger purpose.
Judgment is becoming redundant indeed. You stop judging Self or the other and instead, view all as being part of a larger picture, knowing now that there is a larger purpose behind each quality or experience that you might have formerly judged as negative.
At this point comes another revelation. Thus far, non-judgment has always implied a moving away from judging anything as negative or wrong or less.
But a natural extension of not judging anything as ‘bad’ implies not judging anything as ‘good’. If you were to judge anything as good, your negative judgment is only hidden, as everything that does not fit in with your criterion of good, is actually automatically rendered bad. This is a big leap in consciousness and it takes you beyond ‘judgment’ into a state of being without labels.
Non-judgment does not mean non-observation. You will observe, there will be discrimination, even preference. You may indeed view someone as angry or arrogant or a cheat for example but without the judgment of it being good or bad; without adding the usual inner plethora of: “she should not be”, “how can she be”.
You cannot move away from the spoken language and will need to use the words, yes, but if you are truly not judging from within, then your energy signatures are not emanating judgment.
This brings us to a profound understanding that if we were to use all such words like angry, arrogant, cheat and so on without judgment, we are going to change the energy behind these words — where they do not imply an automatic negative verdict — and we will indeed develop language without labels.