Walls of the pot in which we are boiling. No amount of problem-solving will help until we shake up the rigidity of our own certainty. The next time you find yourself stuck, embroiled in worry and at the end of your problem-solving resources, consider the following experiment in freeing your mind. You may be surprised to find initial discomfort strangely turning to peace. You may even find that when you stop trying, something shifts.
Options present themselves.
Suddenly you're out of the pot. Imagine that all you thought you knew for certain about your situation is not true. You don't need to figure out exactly what this means. As you release your current definitions, don't immediately grasp for new ones. You don't need to know.