I let go of all the feelings of stress and open myself to receive new perspectives for my challenges.

Stress narrows the field, and not as a figure of speech.

Under pressure people genuinely stop seeing things, which is why you can search a flat for twenty minutes for keys that were in your other hand the whole time.

New angles need slack in the same way. They do not arrive during the crisis; they arrive in the shower afterwards, on the way to the shops, in the ten minutes before sleep when the problem is no longer being gripped.

Which makes putting it down for an hour practical rather than indulgent. It is not avoidance. It is the only condition under which the rest of your thinking can get anywhere near it.