This happens to me sometimes, and I sort of bring myself back to normality by reminding myself of the fact that the things my meat-brain chooses to bring to my attention are out of my control (for a short time) when I’m in panic mode. Other facts I recall: I have a reflectively-inconsistent meat brain, I was raised in a Christian home (I’m atheist now), and just about everything relevant that I can remember from Kahneman (correspondence bias etc.) and other psychology texts. Also, the Sequences.
Annoying aliefs are annoying.
A thing to do would be to condense all that gratitude into the word “awesome”. Best said with a wide grin.
This happens to me sometimes, and I sort of bring myself back to normality by reminding myself of the fact that the things my meat-brain chooses to bring to my attention are out of my control (for a short time) when I’m in panic mode. Other facts I recall: I have a reflectively-inconsistent meat brain, I was raised in a Christian home (I’m atheist now), and just about everything relevant that I can remember from Kahneman (correspondence bias etc.) and other psychology texts. Also, the Sequences.
Annoying aliefs are annoying.
A thing to do would be to condense all that gratitude into the word “awesome”. Best said with a wide grin.