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I was talking recently with a student who had gone through this phase of lashing out at his 15-year-old son

and then just hugely regretting his anger, his aggression.

And he realized it was coming from his own sense of inadequacy in parenting and in more

that he just felt out of control in his life.

And so he deepened his intention. He committed himself because he felt

like it really mattered to when he noticed he was about to pounce to pause. That was his

intention to pause and just to tell himself, this is coming from my own pain.

Josh is struggling to, just to remind himself.

And it helped him take a kind of timeout so he could respond later from more sanity,

you know, for more balance. He could call boundaries that needed to be called, but really from care. And maybe you like this person can think of

times recently or not that it would have made a huge difference if you had

remembered your intention before reacting and how that might have made possible more presence,

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