EPISODE · Aug 14, 2026 · 41 MIN
How to Stop Ruminating | Feel the Feelings Beneath Your Thoughts (Guided Meditation)
from Somatic Healing Meditations · host Karena Neukirchner
You already know how exhausting rumination is. You've overthought it to death, picked it apart from every angle, told yourself the story a dozen different ways… and somehow, the thoughts just keep looping. Here's the truth: rumination isn't primarily a thinking problem, even though it shows up as thoughts. So when we try to think our way out of it, reason with it, or reframe it, we end up staying stuck in the exact same loop. That's because our thoughts are often symptoms of feelings living in our bodies. When we have thoughts that keep cycling over and over again, it's usually because there are unprocessed feelings or unacknowledged emotions underneath them. In this episode of Somatic Healing Meditations, I guide you through a soothing somatic meditation using Regenerating Images in Memory (RIM), my favorite somatic emotional processing technique. This meditation helps you feel the feelings beneath your thoughts, rather than just thinking about them again, so they can finally begin to resolve and release, and the ruminating can finally stop. Perfect for rumination, overthinking, feeling your feelings, and somatic emotional processing In this episode: Why You Need To Feel The Feelings Beneath Your Thoughts Guided Meditation To Stop Ruminating Read more about the somatic approach to stop ruminating thoughts Related: More Somatic Emotional Processing Exercises Please join me for my upcoming free training, The Secret Wisdom of Your Triggers! This powerful 75-minute training will help you gain profound insights into the conflicts and repeating patterns in your life and learn to heal your core issues in a loving and integrated way! Learn more and enroll here! Join me on my Somatic Self-Love Retreat in Costa Rica 2027! (Only 2 discounted early bird spots left!) https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Go deeper on your somatic healing journey: Follow @helloinnerlight on Instagram, and YouTube Find ALL of the amazing Somatic Healing Meditations here Submit a question for the podcast: Your Healing, Your Questions Free mini-course: The Feel it to Heal it Mini-Course Join me on a retreat! https://helloinnerlight.com/retreats Get AD-FREE access to this podcast, plus live classes, workshops, and group coaching in Somatic Healing Hub Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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If you're exhausted from thinking the same thoughts on repeat, this meditation offers a different way out: feeling the feelings underneath your thoughts instead of trying to think your way through it. This gentle, guided meditation helps those feelings move through and release, so you can finally stop ruminating and come back to yourself.
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