Battling rumination is hard, but if you stick to your guardrails, if you ritualize the transition from work to home, and if you train yourself to convert ruminations into productive forms of thinking, you will succeed.
Rather than turning away from Sufism, Rumi became more devoted, participating in ritualized dancing and preaching the religion of love through lectures, poetry, and prose.
So instead of putting behavioral standards on the son, who is narcissistic, they have to figure out what the ritualistic dance they need to do is to go through the portal to see the grandkids.
And another red flag is ritual, when the diet in question instructs you to only eat specific foods, prescribed combinations, or to opt for particular food substitutes like drinks, bars, or powders.
And Tantra in the West, we think of it as very sex oriented, but it's actually just kind of like ritualistic ways to build meditation and practice that kind of stuff.
Because if you think about it, we have this ritualistic way of serving something when we commonly say or colloquially say, let's go for a cup of coffee.