Coaching practices for My World Has Shrunk Down to My Own Small Worries and the Rare Times I Stand Under a Night Sky or Out at the Ocean I Feel My Problems Get Tiny and Something Open Up I Want More Contact with Things That Vast
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- My own problems have swollen up to fill my entire world and I can’t see past them
- My world has shrunk down to my own small worries, and the rare times I stand under a night sky or out at the ocean I feel my problems get tiny and something open up
- 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
- This one problem has swallowed my whole field of vision
Practices that may help
- 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 - 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 - Look for awe and scale
Seek vast or intricate natural sights that produce a felt sense of awe.
Forest Bathing (Shinrin-Yoku), Honestly Explained - 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 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 - 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 - 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 - Stargazing and the vastness of scale
Look up at a dark night sky and let the sheer scale do the work.
Awe Walks, and the Science of Wonder - Seek out awe as a broadening and self-transcending emotion
Awe expands perceived time, reduces self-focused thought, and increases prosocial behavior — and it can be deliberately accessed.
Broaden-and-Build, Made Practical - 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
Related concerns
- When Awe And The Small Self Small Self Practice
Seek an encounter with something genuinely vast to let your personal concerns be re-proportioned.
Deliberately invoke the small-self shift
- When Broaden And Build Awe For Broadening
Awe expands perceived time, reduces self-focused thought, and increases prosocial behavior — and it can be deliberately accessed.
Seek out awe as a broadening and self-transcending emotion
- When Forest Bathing Awe And Perspective
Seek vast or intricate natural sights that produce a felt sense of awe.
Look for awe and scale
- Access To Vastness
Regularly seek encounters with what is vast, ancient, or radically beyond human scale.
Cultivate oceanic or cosmic feeling through awe practices
- When Nature And Movement Awe Walk Design
Walking with intentional attention to vast, novel, or beautiful elements generates awe — which compounds the mood benefits of movement.
Design awe walks that amplify the psychological return of outdoor movement
- Cosmic Perspective
Zoom out to see your situation from a vast distance — then return to act more calmly within it.
The view from above — cosmic perspective
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