Thinking too much without pause drains your mind. Psychology calls this mental fatigue, driven by rumination. Your brain was ...

The University of Exeter is partnering with the University of Oxford and ETH Zürich in a £5 million research programme to investigate why repetitive negative thoughts, or rumination, develop and ...

One way to overcome rumination or obsessive thought patterns is to clarify the difference between rumination and reflection. ...

Reading involves focusing your attention on a story or ideas in a sustained way. It's a mental anchor that displaces ...

Do you often replay the bad yet always forget the good? Here’s the science behind negative thought spirals and how to find balance and resilience. Do you know why our brains can replay our most ...

A new £5 million study will use cutting-edge brain science techniques to investigate why repetitive negative thoughts, also ...

Nighttime journaling can be helpful for reflection and integration, but when unresolved emotional material is involved, a ...

When anxiety strikes, self-awareness can morph into toxic rumination. Here's how it can deepen your crisis instead of helping you solve it. Change can be deceptively complex and difficult to perceive ...

There is much to be gained from meditation – from stress management to enhanced self-compassion. However, one of meditation’s key effects has to do with un-doing rather than acquiring anything.