I know in our community here its easy to jump to try create a technical solution for both identifying and solving our issues. I've found that meditation is the mental tool you might be seeing. The main goal of meditation is to make what is unconscious conscious. And simply by making it conscious it brings it to the level where you can start to address it.

It looks like that is what you have been doing though without the benefit of an explicit meditation practice, keep it up.

There are lots of guides to beginning meditation out there and I happened to write one myself http://hackerhmb.tumblr.com/post/42240064528/hackers-guide-t...