Martha Beck

Self-pity, a dominant characteristic of sociopaths, is also the characteristic that differentiates heroic storytelling from psychological rumination. When you talk about your experiences to shed light, you may feel wrenching pain, grief, anger, or shame. Your audience may pity you, but not because you want them to.

American Author

Walter Dean Myers

After so many books and so many years of writing, I have a good idea of my strengths and weaknesses. I love the process of writing and, if I allowed myself, I would write far too much every day. One weakness which I've struggled to overcome is my tendency to having my characters ruminate for pages.

American Writer

Myron Rolle

I spent three weeks lamenting, ruminating and praying because football had been part of my life since age 6. Then I moved on. I'm glad I always had another clear plan. Several of my FSU teammates did not and do not. It's hard to leave a sport that is embedded in you.

Bahamian Athlete

Mohammad Azharuddin

What has happened has happened. What is done cannot be undone. There is no point in looking back and ruminating over the past. I am a forward-looking man. I want to look ahead; I want to put my past behind me. I want to make my country proud.

Indian Coach

Amy Morin

Wasting brain power ruminating about things you can't control drains mental energy quickly. The more you think about problems you can't solve, the less energy you'll have leftover for more productive endeavors.

Jeremy Hardy

Chemistry seems to be pretty much nailed down, and biology gains ground all the time. But physics seems to be mired in idle rumination. They think a Big Bang started the universe, but they don't really know.

British Comedian

Kamal Haasan

The most feared thing should be death, but after a lot of rumination, I have settled to fear incessant pain. It is not a 'screaming hysterically' kind of fear but a silently lurking one.

Indian Actor

Maximillian Degenerez

I'd drown in a sea of tears if I lived my life ruminating on the past. I would undoubtedly revise memories to be more joyful that they were, or ever have been.

Portuguese Artist

Jennifer Haigh

I spent some time, six months or so, ruminating about the characters before I sat down to write 'Faith'.

American Novelist

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.

German Poet

Use 'ruminate' to describe intense or profound thought, often done silently and personally.

Deep Reflection

'Ruminate' implies that thinking is spread out over time, not just a brief consideration.

Extended Thinking

'Ruminate' is often used when thinking about one's feelings, actions or motivations.

Introspective Use

In biology, 'ruminate' refers specifically to the process of chewing cud, like cows do.

Animal Digestion

Ruminating animals chew their food, swallow it, and then bring it back up to chew again.

Repeated Chewing

'Ruminate' is linked to animals with a special stomach structure, allowing them to digest this way.

Multiple Stomachs

 known to be what I said before edge specialist so they like to be on sort of the edge of the thicket sorry about my head they on the edge of the thicket with some open clearing on the outside so they'll spend the night and sort of cooler periods in the open and well when it's hot did that go into the shaded areas and feed on the brows and ruminate

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 advice beyond and that really is a powerful one is is just please stop give yourself a break and stop trying that can be really helpful because you know otherwise if you're in bed you're stressed and ruminated you're teaching your brain that this thing called the

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 that reason that ruminants don't necessarily actually sleep let's just ruminate and get up and feed and then ruminate and get up and feed it's a constant constant battle Harsha between rest and feeding our simple would life be if we were able to eat grass and get

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 it's a hundred as I said earlier plus what I won't arch to do I want you to count the females and I will count the males are you with me and then we will see buffaloes any day it's good to see you can see that from ruminating there

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 world is now might be enjoying some rumination as well the beasts a part of those animals which are ruminants Rubens I'm talking about the animals which normally goes out for feeding purposes and when the Sun is very hot like this

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 What if I had spent my entire life pursuing the wrong career? But then I realized, no, I still loved psychology. The problem wasn't the work I did in my office. It was the hours I spent ruminating about work when I was home.

How to turn off work...

 but to be able to safely share our information, we need special protections for mental privacy. This is why we need a right to cognitive liberty. This right would secure for us our freedom of thought and rumination,

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 treat yourself with the same compassion you would expect from a truly good friend. We have to catch our unhealthy psychological habits and change them. And one of unhealthiest and most common is called rumination.

How to practice...

 that women report being angrier in more sustained ways and with more intensity than men do. Some of that comes from the fact that we're socialized to ruminate, to keep it to ourselves and mull it over.

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 just ruminating I'm not sure could who have existential crises there's the plural of crisis Crisis crisis right both will go with both for what is what is grass what is life why am i ears so