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How to Stop Ruminating | Feel the Feelings Beneath Your Thoughts (Guided Meditation)

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You already know how exhausting rumination is. You've overthought it to death, picked it apart from every angle, told yourself the story a dozen different ways… and somehow, the thoughts just keep looping.

Here's the truth: rumination isn't primarily a thinking problem, even though it shows up as thoughts. So when we try to think our way out of it, reason with it, or reframe it, we end up staying stuck in the exact same loop.

That's because our thoughts are often symptoms of feelings living in our bodies. When we have thoughts that keep cycling over and over again, it's usually because there are unprocessed feelings or unacknowledged emotions underneath them.

In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a soothing somatic meditation using Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM), my favorite somatic emotional processing technique.

This meditation helps you feel the feelings beneath your thoughts (rather than just thinking about them again) so they can finally begin to resolve and release, and the ruminating can finally stop.

✨ Perfect for rumination, overthinking, feeling your feelings, and somatic emotional processing

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Episode timing:

00:00 - Why You Need To Feel The Feelings Beneath Your Thoughts
04:06 - Guided Meditation To Stop Ruminating
39:43 - Conclusion and Reflections

Read more about the somatic approach to stop ruminating thoughts: https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-h...

Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Exercises: https://helloinnerlight.com/somatic-h...

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12 Comments

@jroddski5433 1 month ago

I realize that the pain in my back was just trying to protect me and keep me safe. But now it can just relax and trust life because I trust life.

@JuliedUnienville 1 month ago

I connected to a part who felt abandoned at birth. It shook and was in much pain. At the end, it had received presence and compassion from my entire self and guide. There was a connection between them. My abandoned part settled as my entire self sent its light. My abandoned part was grateful to have been listened too.

@JulieRushton-m5w 1 month ago

I was treating my ruminating thoughts like they needed to be tamed and I realise they are really deep wisdom that needs to be seen and integrated.into my life. They are the bravest most courageous parts of me. Thank you for helping me in this realisation and giving me the chance to thank those magical strong parts of me. ❤🙏☺️

@benjaminharden929 1 month ago

Very powerful stuff, thank you for your wonderful gift ♥️🙏

@P1nkN1nja 1 month ago

Can you do more somatic sleep meditations? The one you have is incredibly helpful!! I'm sure many people will appreciate another one.

@alanstander4351 1 month ago

This is good timing as the subject of ruminating came up lately. Because of that I did some reading on it and found the name for a person who ruminates about the past is simply a ruminator. I can relate to that a little but not much. I ruminate about the future and the name for a person who does that is Cassandra. Its almost always based in the past but taken to the future by making up stories there. This should work even for a Cassandra like me, and many of us

@natashanakarada 1 month ago

Very good ❤

@preetirao1 1 month ago

Thank you, this was so helpful!

@annier1873 1 month ago

I’m interested in your live class. Will it be recorded I won’t be able to make it on the 28th

@sarahscheepers5100 1 month ago (edited)

I wonder why thinking is such an easy scapegoat for everything that's unbearable for the heart and/or the body 🤔. If we weren't able to think, we wouldn't be able to recognize our bodily sensations to be our own, or to name them, and to share them with others through speech. Let alone make videocontent about them on YouTube. To put rumination, thoughts and thinking in the same box and throw it out the window seems to me, like telling an untrained athlete to throw away his weak musculature, and to rely just on his guts and bones alone.

@DavidSimplelife-j6s 1 month ago

I like the exercise but when you specify women owned business it feels like it is not meant for men. At least it feels weird to me to specify it like that.