I think this is exactly the right message. It’s a habit and we don’t have to keep doing it.
Also, reading this, I realized that my web app BetterQualities (which provides guidance for letting go of various unskillful qualities as they arise) actually doesn’t offer any guidance for stopping rumination. That’s quite an omission on my part! (It’s funny that this didn’t occur to me even when I alluded to rumination in the Heedfulness Workouts post...) And since I typically encounter maybe one rumination-causing event per year, I don’t know when I’ll be able to develop and test a method of my own for countering it.
Would you perhaps be open to providing a short, actionable guidance text that would help the app’s users let go of rumination when they experience it? This could be in exchange for, e.g., linking to one or more of your articles from the app and my Substack. If that sounds like something you might consider doing, we can hash out the details over DM.
My mind’s default state is to ruminate all day long if I let it. For most people, short-term rumination (even if it’s all day long) isn’t all that bad. But if you’re beating yourself up for days, weeks, or years, then it certainly qualifies as a problem worth addressing.
I think this is exactly the right message. It’s a habit and we don’t have to keep doing it.
Also, reading this, I realized that my web app BetterQualities (which provides guidance for letting go of various unskillful qualities as they arise) actually doesn’t offer any guidance for stopping rumination. That’s quite an omission on my part! (It’s funny that this didn’t occur to me even when I alluded to rumination in the Heedfulness Workouts post...) And since I typically encounter maybe one rumination-causing event per year, I don’t know when I’ll be able to develop and test a method of my own for countering it.
Would you perhaps be open to providing a short, actionable guidance text that would help the app’s users let go of rumination when they experience it? This could be in exchange for, e.g., linking to one or more of your articles from the app and my Substack. If that sounds like something you might consider doing, we can hash out the details over DM.
My mind’s default state is to ruminate all day long if I let it. For most people, short-term rumination (even if it’s all day long) isn’t all that bad. But if you’re beating yourself up for days, weeks, or years, then it certainly qualifies as a problem worth addressing.
I’ll DM you on the side.