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Mindfulness serves as a tool to shift away from automatic reactivity by enabling one to pause and remain present.

“When I'm not aware, I'm so reactive. It even you can hear it in my voice. I would go, Lou, put away the phone or the iPad. And that's when I'm in reactive mode. But when I'm mindful and specifically when I know that I'm aware all the stuff that's happening, I know, oh yeah, he's doing this”

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