Obtaining freedom from rumination on past wrongs (as victim or perpetrator)
One of the ego’s self-defeating methods of protection is to fixate on wrongs from the past, whether it was something we did to someone else or something that someone else did to us. Rumination is when we replay it over and over in our minds, along with all of our assumptions about it. Since it doesn’t lead to resolution or solutions, we’re really just pointlessly torturing ourselves. It’s a state of mind that lowers our vibration and contributes to attitudes and behaviors that brings more suffering into our lives. Even when we know all of this, it’s still very easy to get trapped in this state.