If you get stuck in a riptide and try to fight the current to swim directly to shore because your instinct is to take the most direct route, the current will pull you under and you will drown.

But if you relax, stop fighting the current, stop fighting to find the fastest way to shore, and instead swim parallel to the shore which is completely counterintuitive in your panic, before you know it, you've swum your way out of that riptide into calmer water that you can navigate without drowning.

Maybe you don't need to fight. Maybe you need to float in a direction that is counterintuitive.