Cognitive distancing (View from Above)

Distance restores proportion. Proportion restores judgment.

The View from Above is a Stoic technique for breaking emotional entanglement by zooming out.

You mentally lift your perspective higher and wider until the problem shrinks to its actual size.

Not to dismiss it, but to see it accurately.

From close up, everything feels urgent and personal.
From above, patterns replace drama.

This practice reduces fear, anger, and obsession by restoring scale.
You stop being inside the event and start observing it as one moment among many.

The goal isn’t detachment from life.
It’s freedom from distortion.