The antidote for escalation is having a proactive environment.
This creates a space preventing escalation in the first plac
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Stories
Telling yourself stories about your expectations of how the interaction is going to go or predicting what someone is going to say or what your dog is going to do, robs you of living in the moment and responding to what is happening in the here and now.
Creating Problems Just to Solve Them
I paused for a minute and recognized, I spent more time figuring out how to correct the problem than if I would just slow down a bit and be aware of what I was doing in the first place.
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