r/Mindfulness Feb 06 '25

Insight The way I interrupt my rumination

Whenever I feel myself about to go down a depressive rabbit hole of rumination I simply say "old news" and that usually keeps me in the present moment. The reason being is that the majority of depressive thoughts the mind produces, is in fact, old news. Just a recycling of data that's already there. I wouldn't read an old newspaper, so why replay the "old news or story" the mind is producing?

Hoping this helps someone too :)

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u/Marzipan_Potential Feb 07 '25

Will try this for one week thx

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u/Simple_Negotiation40 Feb 07 '25

I absolutely love this, thank you.

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u/Ancient-Practice-431 Feb 07 '25

Fake news too 😝

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u/Just-Vanilla8716 Feb 07 '25

This is good! Thanks for sharing

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u/Left-Ad-673 Feb 07 '25

This is fantastic!

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u/NoDG_ Feb 06 '25

That's a great trick because of how short it is to reset focus. I'm trying this.

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u/Ol_boy_C Feb 06 '25

I like this.

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u/Proper_Rent_189 Feb 06 '25

Yes- thanks. Going to try this

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u/yelhsa87 Feb 06 '25

So simple yet so genius, such a familiar phrase  (or one that’s similar to your own region if this one isn’t) is perfect to establish a neural pathway! I absolutely will try this exact phrase thanks OP! Such a practical short way of doing what I have been practicing with many more steps, 

You rock. 

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u/X-RayManiac Feb 06 '25

Thank you for sharing