Rumination & Negative Self-Talk
In today's session with Nkechi Nkaja, you'll be focusing on combatting rumination and negative self-talk with mindfulness. Rumination is a repetitive thinking pattern characterized by the tendency to focus on negative events, unpleasant feelings, or uncomfortable experiences. And it affects all of us. There are four main ways in which we ruminate: 1. Personalizing – when something bad occurs, you always blame yourself. 2. Filtering – you magnify the negative aspects of a situation and filter out the positive. 3. Catastrophizing – automatically assuming and anticipating the worst. 4. Polarizing – things are either good or bad, there is no in-between. If it's not perfect, it's a failure In this session, you'll see how you can call upon mindfulness to extract yourself from the cycle of these unhelpful thoughts.
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