The perfect metaphor just occurred to me! You stall an airplane and the nose falls. You're instinct is to pull up, but you know that you have to push down to regain airspeed. Right now, you're stalled and you need to do the opposite of what you're currently doing so you can regain airspeed and start flying again. Does that help?
Oops...I think I confused you with mattw. So, if you're not a pilot, then disregard the metaphor.
