The challenge I am attempting to identify right now deals with how we best navigate situations of mental rumination. In times of overstimulation, high cognitive load or simply contrast - the mind takes on a posture of overthinking. Overthinking has a way of gathering unintended momentum. At its best we stir up a perception of pseudo-experience of reality that only lives in our head. It's power stimulates our emotions no different that heightened physical experiences.

At its essence the concept of rumination grew from an observation of the process in which cows consume grass. They chew on grass, digest it, regurgitate it , chew on grass more, eat, regurgitate.... Like our mental rumination this endless process of continuing to chew on things.

The best way to not think about something is to think about something else.

With directed intention, I am able to offload the rumination and give my mind empty content to chew on. While listening to an Abraham recording recently, she stated "The best way to not think about something is to think about something else." (Sage advice). My method for doing it is to perform  the alphabet backwards and forwards. It does not have within it anything that could trigger my mind to want to explore.

For all the reasons that we may feel justified in thinking, there is nothing more beneficial than to just slow everything down in the pursuit of prioritizing receptivity. Receptivity is a space that is cultivated beyond the realms of our intellects ability to be right or utilize knowledge towards any attempts to choreograph or orchestrate circumstances and events. The power of a non-ruminating mind comes into full bloom as we build measures to calm the storm before it gets there, as well as neutralize the moment prior to it gathering a head of steam.