How Does Being Present Cause Integration?

Being present is something i can do. I can start it. I can stop it. But these, these are not things you're doing. These are results. So to use the language of psychology, these are states you can get into. But these are traits that you cultivate. You want to become more incitful and less reactive. It's a weird kind of paradoxical not doing. Ands the same thing with not judging. Not judging is something you're doing; but again, you can start it, it can stop. You can re start it again. Now questions immediately emerge by making this distinction: How does being present cause insight or how does being present reduce reactivity