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• My own problems have swollen up to fill my entire world and I can’t see past them
• This one problem has swallowed my whole field of vision
• This one thing has swallowed my whole field of view
• I’m so wrapped up in my own looping worries that they fill my whole world
• This one problem has swelled up to fill my entire field of vision, like it’s the only thing in the world

Practices that may help

1. Deliberately invoke the small-self shift
   Seek an encounter with something genuinely vast to let your personal concerns be re-proportioned.
   Awe and the Small Self
2. The view from above
   Zoom out — picture your situation from high above, in the scale of the city, the world, and time.
   Stoicism, as a Set of Practices
3. The view from outside your life
   Mentally zoom out until your current problem shrinks to its actual scale.
   Zhuangzi and the Practice of Perspective Shift
4. Look for awe and scale
   Seek vast or intricate natural sights that produce a felt sense of awe.
   Forest Bathing (Shinrin-Yoku), Honestly Explained
5. Place it in the scale of the whole
   Set your problem against the size of the universe and the brevity of all human time.
   Meditations, as Marcus Practiced It
6. The spatial zoom-out
   Mentally lift yourself out of the room and rise until you see the whole world spread below you.
   The View from Above
7. The view from above — cosmic perspective
   Zoom out to see your situation from a vast distance — then return to act more calmly within it.
   Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises
8. Cultivate oceanic or cosmic feeling through awe practices
   Regularly seek encounters with what is vast, ancient, or radically beyond human scale.
   Maslow’s Self-Transcendence, Made Practical
9. Courting the small self
   Seek experiences that make you feel small in a good way — and notice the relief in it.
   Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder
10. Zoom out in time
    Ask how much this will matter in ten years to shrink a present crisis to size.
    Self-Distancing: Thinking Clearly About Your Own Problems

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