i guess, although many things were involved, the major thing might be kind of finding a little stability, and then rewarding where to go, in small gentle steps, with some context shifting. there's a basic theory of mind control that has been mentioned before, involving unsettling, shifting, and resettling. in a really difficult situation where we're at a power disadvantage, we kind of engage all three of those at once. -> we reduce the unsettling when we're in a better place or when the shifting is poor -> we strengthen the unsettling when we're in a worse place -> we attend to the shifting. we try to shift more when we are moving from a worse place to a better place, especially if there is settling likely in the better place. we don't attend to shifting much otherwise: we don't want to make a conflict with the problem, nor to waste scant resources. -> [also with settling, similar things] [...]