Awe interrupts the illusion that your current concern is the entire universe.

Under pressure, a single concern expands to fill everything, and the world shrinks to the size of the problem. Awe breaks the seal: for a moment there is something in view that plainly has nothing to do with your situation and is entirely indifferent to it. The concern does not vanish, but it stops being everything, which is often enough.

When you are stuck inside something, go find scale. Water, sky, height, a very old thing, a piece of music that is bigger than you. Not to solve the problem but to remind yourself that it has edges and that the world continues past them.