I seem to always find just "being present" and "letting go" to be my solution to these "traps" and 9 times out of 10, the trap itself disappears once I view it from a different perspective, which only ever happens if I am "being present" and able to "let go" of useful emotion and thought patterns.
Gurdjieff said it is not important to try to figure out what is the wrong or right thing to do, because this leaves us in the intellectual sphere which is incomplete and subject to mass hypnosis among other sneaky influences. He said all anyone needs to do to live a better life is to "wake up", because if you are awake you will do the sensible thing, if you're asleep, you will be following "dream logic" in waking life... Mr. Magoo style...
i suppose it is all in how you look at it: useful or non-useful emotion. We often have to look at solutions by getting a different perspective. To see the larger picture so to speak. Perhaps that is why the practice of meditation is so important. Suddenly we may get the epiphany needed to act.
