I try to remember that our symbolic mapping systems - our ideology and beliefs and even daily thoughts - tend to bend and morph around our emotional states, much like river water bulges up around underlying rock.
With happiness and elation, the thoughts erupt and hang together like mountains.
Sadness leads to linked thoughts deflating and pulling each other down.
Not sure how this all works out really. A sketch for later, to be sure.
A useful concept for metacognition though.
