A different perspective

Years ago, there was a ride called the Rotor at a local amusement park.  While on this ride, which was similar to a circular room on the inside, it would feel as though you were being pushed into the wall by some mysterious force as the room rotated around.  So great was this apparent force that you could turn yourself completely upside down and still be "stuck" to the wall.  While inside this room, it was hard to explain what you were feeling in any other way aside from that there was something pushing you into the wall.

However, if you were to remove yourself from the situation and find yourself with a bird's eye view, you would see something very different happening.  In fact, you would see that the people in the ride are not being pushed into the wall at all, but rather, the wall is simply causing the people to change direction.  The wall is keeping the people from doing what they would otherwise be doing - that is, traveling in a straight line.  The wall is exerting an inward force on the riders.  The sense of being pushed into the wall is a matter of perspective.  In reality, the riders' inertia carries them in a straight line, and without the wall pushing them inward, that is exactly where they would be going.  Imagine if the wall suddenly gave way.

Sometimes, when you are in a situation, fully immersed, it is hard - impossible, even - to see what is really going on. Sometimes, it takes an outside perspective, a bird's eye view, to really clarify what is happening.

Sometimes, your inertia is carrying you forward, and the wall is there, thankfully, to change your direction.