should noting involve quality judgments?

[u/kreayshawn777]

I've recently started noting in day to day life and am wondering if it's okay to note in terms of categorising an experience into either a positive or negatively valanced thing. I typically note without having this problem but sometimes I encounter qualities that feel like they may be positively valanced so I think about using labels like beautiful or sublime. But these feel like qualitative judgments which I think may interfere with equanimity where perhaps we are neither attached nor averse to the thing we're experiencing.

[u/_spacious_joy_]

This is a thing in Theravada noting such as Mahasi. You note the vedana of a sensation as positive, negative, or neutral. You don't need to describe it beyond that.

[u/scienceofselfhelp → u/_spacious_joy_]

This.