Other good trigger-action-plans might involve immediately standing up and hopping or splashing cold water on your face. Changing your physical state is a fantastic shortcut to changing your mental state.

I have been kicking around the idea of analogizing chemical reaction energy channels to human behavior.

I have always loved this metaphor because the "channel" is a literal channel in the abstract 3D space drawn by two "intermolecular distance" axes and one "energy" axis. AB must encounter C with a certain range of energies and in a certain range of intermolecular distances in order to oscillate its way through the energy channel and out the other side to dissociate and reform into A + BC.

The analogy would be that certain psychological conditions must be met as you undertake a task if you expect to make it through the "channel" to your desired end goal. For example, if you come in with "too much energy" or "not enough energy" you'll slide right out of the channel.

Overall it's probably one of those metaphors that's more amusing than it is useful.