QM's response reminded me of what (and how) we are doing in t. IMO, it's not so much to play a psychological chess game, to trace the "logical" steps to our history.

It's to capture the feeling in the moment it happens. Not to avoid feeling, or even change feeling. But to integrate that feeling. Bring that feeling out of history and feel it in the safe room with your t.

Like the saying about theory and practice: "In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, they are not.”