New Delhi, April 9 -- My mind is constantly filled with thoughts about what can go wrong," a 39-year-old male client says. "It's exhausting, my mind is always at work, nothing gets resolved-everything from smallest of problems to the bigger ones worry me with the same intensity. I feel stuck and helpless all the time."

This is rumination and it feels like a song playing over and over in our heads. Rumination has two components: one, endless thoughts, most often negative and limiting; and two, the frequency of the thought in terms of repetition. With rumination, we find ourselves thinking about the same thing over and over, replaying it in our heads, and in the process, causing ourselves distress, anxiety and emotional fatigue.

One feels...