Ruminative in a sentence as an adjective

It pulls me out of the ruminative loop that seems to be the root of my depression and lets me restart life with a clean slate.

Once one gets out of this cycle of ruminative thinking can one have the wherewithal to begin analytical thinking.

I basically wrote the article in under 15 minutes in a mildly depressive/ruminative state.

I'm happy to acknowledge that someone may have a family or other circumstance that is more pressing than a ruminative chat, and not count it against them.

We are introspective, ruminative, hopeful, and fearful, we can be those things because we have the language and the cogitative and conceptual depth to express them.

Programming all day isn't what our bodies are genetically designed to do. Programming involves countless hours of ruminative thoughts, and limiting human contact, and stress, all of which are ingredients for mental illness.

And there are more pathological, or at least more chronic, sources of mental load, such as the ruminative thought patterns characteristic of stress, anxiety and depression.

I think those ruminative philosophical talks can be intellectually stimulating but you need some real world practical experience working in tech.

Several forms of depression are exacerbated by ruminative thinking [1].

I'll try to explain my more ruminative thinking: Since the article actually specifies behavioral research, I think my background in anthropology and the social sciences might be helpful here.

But, on reflection, I might have just replaced writing with orating...Running with that idea, maybe oral conversation is an underrated ruminative method: with its great space for nuance and emphasis, and its tight feedback loop between speaker and listener.

You pay attention to what your experience is like aside from the discursive, ruminative, extraneous thinking processes, and so loosen your attachments to those processes, which leaves more cognitive space for the senses, activity, participation, the "present moment.

Ruminative definitions

adjective

deeply or seriously thoughtful; "Byron lives on not only in his poetry, but also in his creation of the 'Byronic hero' - the persona of a brooding melancholy young man";

See also: brooding broody contemplative meditative musing pensive pondering reflective