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From the experience I've acquired over the years, I've come to the realization that everyone has

their own personal thresholds for dealing with past issues, and it's essential to respect them.

As I've stated before, I have my masters in social work

and I actually was a licensed psychotherapist in private practice for about a year. My therapeutic approach was obviously based in mindfulness and no matter what the issue the client was seeing me for, I truly felt that mindfulness could help.

Oftentimes though, I had to reference other therapeutic approaches.

All in all, though, mindfulness helped in some way.

So a mindfulness technique that I used to do with my clients is called mindful reflection,

where we would gently reflect on the client's past. We often started with their childhood and then

we gradually worked our way forward. This is a very useful technique because our past

contains a lot of useful knowledge and lessons to learn from.

And much of our current behavior and choices are actually based on past experiences.

So also keeping in mind that many people have suffered from traumatic experiences and

mindfully reflecting on these experiences can be a bit tricky.

Such was the case with this particular client.

We'll call him M.

M originally came to see me because of his anger issues.

He would frequently lose his temper at the slightest agitation.

He started to notice how it was starting to affect his marriage, his second one, and also

his work environment.

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