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Another way to transform judgement is to experience what it is like to become that other person that you judge, experiencing what it is like to have their experience. Identifying with the other person, walking a mile in their moccasins, is a very old practice in many spiritual traditions, and was particularly evident in Ghandis life and work in freeing India from British colonialism. Whle identifying, it is helpful to think of the NLP presupposition that Everyone always makes the best choice that is available to them. How is it that this person finds this attitude or behavior to be the best choice available to them? Aligning Perceptual Positions, a process developed by Connirae Andreas [2] is a very specific way to help someone move from judging someone from the outside to a compassionate understanding of what someone else experiences from the inside, and it also clarifies the persons own experience of responding to the other person.