By that I mean talking to yourself about future or past conversations with other people. Maybe an encounter went poorly, in your mind. “If only I had said x instead of y, then I would have succeeded.” So you rehearse the conversation over and over in your head to make it come out the way you want.
Rehearsal bathes you in self-made toxicity. The event is past. Why are you re-running the script? You can’t make a better outcome.
Or the event might or might not happen in the future. And if it does, you’ll be ready and know what to say. Wrong.
Don’t talk to yourself. If you find the loop running, stop it.
The only way I know to stop rehearsal is to talk to God using an internal conversation.
And remember: You’re not in rehearsal. This is the main event, always.