Ruminate: Journal Prompt 7

Rumination takes advantage of your fears. Who could blame rumination? Your fears supply well-targeted content that keeps you clicking.

Ruminate: Journal Prompt 6

Rumination, like a persistent mosquito. Rumination, fallen down a dark hole, aggressively telling you who you are.

Have you ever taken a young child on a walk? If you have, you are quickly aware that your goals are different.

Rumination must find a way outside of you, away from the echo.

Beneath the overwhelm of rumination there are signals—a white flag waving, a yellow light blinking—there is something trying to get your attention.

When rumination takes over, you are miles away, down a long hallway, in the corner of a dark room, with the door closed, you are isolated.

While rumination can be a normal experience, it can be terrorizing if the content is negative and anxiety-provoking.

Respect the communication of your body. If you listen, your body will tell you how to manage your energy.

Perhaps you are on the other side of energy management, you have no trouble conserving and protecting your energy, but rather in expending energy.

You cannot manage something you do not recognize. What does your drained energy sound like?