308. How to Stop Replaying Scenarios in your Head and Ruminating Thoughts
Do You F*cking Mind?
Alexis Fernandez-Preiksa - Neuroscientist and Mindset Coach
4.9 • 914 Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2024
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Summary
Do you constantly replay scenarios in your head? What is rumination? And how can you stop these thoughts from taking over your life? In this episode we’ll find out what rumination is, why it happens to some people, and how you can turn it around so you can start living life to its full potential.
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| 0:00.0 | A Listener Production |
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| 0:15.2 | I think I'm being manipulated. |
| 0:17.0 | Someone told me you could live with half a brain. |
| 0:19.4 | This is Do You Fucking Mind, Mindset Hacks for a Badass Life? |
| 0:23.3 | Hosted by me, Alexis Fernandez. |
| 0:25.7 | Hello everyone and welcome to the episode of today. |
| 0:30.2 | So in today's episode, I want to be talking about the idea of replaying scenarios in your head. Another way of looking at this is ruminating thoughts. |
| 0:41.7 | But it's this idea and I get asked quite often and a lot of the time it comes down to |
| 0:46.9 | relationships and interactions you've had with people, but it can also be missed opportunities. |
| 0:51.2 | It could also be when you failed at something, when you feel like you fell short |
| 0:54.6 | or you could have done something better. And it's this, you replay the scenario again and again and again and |
| 1:00.0 | again and again and you find yourself stuck in a loop. You can't break out of it. You're like, |
| 1:06.4 | I just don't want to think about this anymore. So I'm going to explain to you firstly what exactly |
| 1:10.9 | is ruminating thoughts, like what does it mean? What is it? Then I'm going to talk about why it happens |
| 1:17.1 | or why it's more likely to happen to some people versus other people depending on your past |
| 1:22.6 | situations. And then I'm going to give you some little tools on how to grab these thoughts when they're |
| 1:29.0 | happening and turn it around so you can do something a bit more productive with that thought. |
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