Stand or sit up, clap your hands, and move your body. Connect with your senses by noticing what you can hear, see, smell, taste, and feel. The idea is to reconnect with the world.

Most of the rumination happens when you are in a state called “waking sleep": when you are doing things, but yo...

Try these techniques:

• Acceptance: Acknowledge that whether you like the situation or not, it is the way it is.
• Learn the lesson: Your brain will review events until it feels you’ve gained something from them.
• Action: Do something about your situatio...

Stress is largely caused not by other people or external events, but by your reactions to them.

When you ruminate, your attention gets caught in an unproductive loop.

So step up and redirect your attention to areas in which you can take useful action.

But pressure could be converted into stress, when rumination appears: the tendency to keep rethinking past or future events while attaching negative emotion to those thoughts.

Rumination is ongoing and destructive, diminishing your health, productivity, and well-being.