Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Corey Muscarra, and in today's episode, I'm going to share a simple strategy

you can use to help with rumination.

More to come on that in a moment, first, let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

So let's touch on rumination and thought loops, where we find ourselves really caught

in a negative thinking pattern, the mind just seems to be looping on repeat, or we're

just ruminating about something incessantly.

There are a lot of reasons why this could happen, which I won't go into all of those right

now, but I want to talk about the experience of when that's happening.

Most often our orientation is one that could be characterized with the sentiment of,

my mind is ruining my life right now, or just a general frustration with that thought

loop, feeling at war with it, frustrated by it, feeling like if it were to only stop,

I would feel better.

And so we have this experience that's arising, and we might do a lot to try to redirect

it, anchor our attention on the breath, focus on something else, think positive, and sometimes

that can be useful, but a lot of times it's not, and it just creates more internal pressure

and frustration.

So one thing I have found helpful for these patterns is to really completely shift the

energetic orientation to the thoughts themselves, by energetic orientation, I just mean how

you are orienting to that experience.

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