Coaching practices for I'm So Deep Inside This That I've Lost All Perspective it Feels Enormous and Consuming Right Now Even Though I Know If it Were Happening to a Friend I'd See it Clearly in a Second and Probably Tell Them It'll Barely Register in a Few Years

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• I’m so deep inside this that I’ve lost all perspective
• This thing has swallowed my whole field of view
• This one thing has swallowed my whole field of view
• In the grip of this, the problem feels total and permanent
• This one problem has swallowed my whole field of vision

Practices that may help

1. Distancing 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.
   Cognitive Reappraisal vs. Suppression, Made Practical
2. 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
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. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. 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
9. Zoom out from the single loss to the aggregate
   A loss looks catastrophic in isolation and trivial across the whole portfolio of your life.
   Loss Aversion, Made Practical
10. 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

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