Cadre Today - Rumination Cycle Break

Hey, good morning, Cadre. How are we doing today? I hope you are doing fantastic. But your daily reminder, and especially maybe on a Monday, it's a little bit more important to hear it. But if you're not doing okay, guess what? You're still incredibly capable, incredibly worthy, and probably going to accomplish some pretty miraculous things this week, this day, this morning. So there's your reminder. Ball game 2230. How we doing, Ros? Speak Wonder. Nice to see y' all today. I'm glad that I'm here.

I'm glad that you're here. I know the things that I know, I think and I care about you. That is your. That is the way we, we usher in these moments. Marisa, nice to see you. No, you go. Ball game 22:30. You go. So rumination. Rumination. So I grew up with a jukebox in the basement, which is now in my parents living room. An old rock cola. And in this jukebox there was a recording, an old 55 of Bohemian Rhapsody Morning staff. And in this Bohemian Rhapsody record there was this little skip. I didn't know it was a skip at the time, but it would go.

And then the song would eventually go on. But I always thought that Bohemian Rhapsody had this skip in it. And I always thought it was weird. I thought it was kind of cool, but I thought it was weird. Then I heard it, not on this old record. And I was like, oh, got it. That record had a little skip in it. That's what rumination is in your brain. Rumination is the ability of your brain, or maybe the different ability in your brain to rather than processing something, to play it again, to play it again, and to play it again and to play it again to a place to where you may feel like that skip in the record.

So often our brain ruminates when it has time to. It's like when we're attempting to rest, when we are maybe trying to focus on one activity like driving. It's in these moments where our brain will go into rumination mode. It can be rather uncomfortable, it can be rather debilitating, annoying when we ruminate. But big thing to remember is normally what we're ruminating on is something that we care about, something that we're invested in, something we have power and privilege in and over. So it's actually a really good thing to think about.

But you're right, it's not the best thing to get stuck on something without ever progressing through it. So I have a little tactic for you to break the rumination cycle. I'll tell you, I have one of the hats that I wear right now. One of my jobs, literally every night for the last probably about 11 months, I wake up and I ruminate on something about this job for at least an hour every night. Think about, I've lost one hour of sleep every night over this. This job. I wake up, and my brain goes into rumination mode.

Hey, Ms. Shannon. Paul. Nice to see you this Monday morning. And the way that I move through rumination is by focusing on something that I really appreciate. Normally, what can break the skip of rumination is something that has forward momentum in it. So let me say that again. Rumination happens because we're thinking about something that doesn't move forward, that doesn't have an answer, that doesn't have a next step, and we get stuck. And we get stuck, and we get stuck. The way that we break that cycle is by focusing on something, by inserting something into that flywheel that moves us over the, you know, the.

The rut, the snow rut, the. Whatever the analogy is. So what I often do, and I tried this last night again, and it's hard. It doesn't always work. But I started saying, I had my three dogs there, and I woke up middle of the night, my brain's going up, think, work, think, work, think, work. And I'm like, nope, I'm gonna say my three dogs names in order of oldest to youngest, and then do it again and again and again and again, they say. And a lot of research shows, meaning they've looked at brains that get stuck in rumination.

And all of a sudden, how long does it take focusing on something that you appreciate or something that you love? It gives you energy and excitement. How long does it take until that rumination cycle breaks? And then you start thinking about other things? Two minutes. About two minutes is the challenge. So for two minutes, I tried to go Jefferson, Willow, Franklin, Jefferson, Willow, Franklin to break the cycle. The amount of times that I failed, the amount of times that I stopped saying their names and I started thinking about work or I started saying other names, or I started getting out of order a couple of dozen times.

The beautiful thing is, over time, I got to the place where I was like, I don't remember why I'm playing this game right now. My invitation for you today is when you get in those rumination cycles, when you get into that skip in the record and you keep hearing the Bohemian Rhapsody intro again and again, you go, does this ever end? Why is it so long? And it's long because the record's got to skip in it, just like your brain's got to skip in it when it starts ruminating all of a sudden. If you can take a moment of appreciation, a moment of, ooh, here's something that gives me energy, excitement, something that is a positive distraction for two minutes, all of a sudden, you may find yourself on the other side of that rumination cycle where all of a sudden, the rest of Bohemian Rhapsody is waiting for you.

So no matter what you have going on today, I hope it's a good one. If it's not, that's okay, too. I'll see you tomorrow. Bye. It.