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- This thing has swallowed my whole field of view
- This one thing has swallowed my whole field of view
- This one thing has swallowed my whole field of view
- This one problem has swallowed my whole field of vision
- 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
- Ask: how will this look in one year, five years?
Project forward to check whether the catastrophe still looks catastrophic from a temporal distance.
Decatastrophizing, Made Practical - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - The temporal zoom-out
Set today’s problem against a year, a decade, a century — and ask whether it still ranks.
The View from Above - 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 - Identify the other things that will also be true of your future life
Focalism makes future events seem bigger than they are by ignoring all the other things that will still be present.
Affect Forecasting: Why You Mispredicted How You’d Feel - 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 - Expanding to panoramic awareness
Deliberately widen attention from its usual narrow focal point to include the full field of sensory experience simultaneously.
Open Monitoring Meditation, Made Practical
Related concerns
- When Meditations Marcus Aurelius Cosmic And Time Perspective
Zoom out — picture your situation from high above, in the scale of the city, the world, and time.
The view from above
- When The View From Above Spatial Zoom Out
Mentally lift yourself out of the room and rise until you see the whole world spread below you.
The spatial zoom-out
- When Zhuangzi Perspective Shift View From Outside Life
Mentally zoom out until your current problem shrinks to its actual scale.
The view from outside your life
- When Reappraisal Vs Suppression Distance Reappraisal
Step back from the situation and think about it as if you were an observer, or as if it were happening to someone else.
Distancing reappraisal
- When Stoicism View From Above
Zoom out — picture your situation from high above, in the scale of the city, the world, and time.
- How To Gain Perspective On Problems
Set your problem against the size of the universe and the brevity of all human time.
Place it in the scale of the whole
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