What is it?  Nonjudgemental awareness is when you REMOVE THE FILTERS of perspective applied to an emotion or situation, seeing it TRUTHFULLY and realistically.

 We are taught to view life through the FILTERS of society, cultural and environmental bias.  People are often either optimistic or pessimistic in nature.  Past experiences also inform how we view any given current situation.  Our judgement occurs rapidly as a survival skill, hard wired into our PRIMAL brain to avoid imminent danger.

 But judgment isn't the whole picture, merely a subconscious reaction.  It can easily misread a situation or negate an emotional state that is trying to be expressed.  Allow yourself to "PUT IT OFF TO ONE SIDE" and view the situation or emotion as neither positive nor negative.  SEE the truth WITHOUT judgment and you will OPEN UP different PERSPECTIVES you may not have considered initially.  Now your reaction is based on what is ACTUALLY occurring, not an interpretation viewed through filters.  

 I DON'T recommend IGNORING the judgments but rather put them off to one side.  Think of it as seeing something out of the corner of your eye.  It's in your field of vision but it's not the primary.  Emotions ignored often break free uncontrollable at inopportune moments.  Psychology has a lot to say about repression.  Filters can do GREAT HARM OR SERVE you depending on the filter.  For example, past experiences may help to inform PARTIALLY with NEW, truthful information adding context to present situations.  Pessimism may add negativity that WASN'T there until YOU added it.

 When you put it off to one side, you add SPACE to determine if those judgments are VALUABLE and should be brought into the moment or harmful and dealt with another time.

 Nonjudgemental awareness allows us to work on what is actually occurring.

 Image is AI generated, the content is all me ;)