This is my two cents:

In my experience, reading a global position is done differently than reading out tactical variations. For one, I do not pick random spots on the board. Instead, I am much more likely to let the shapes and structures on the board influence broader strategy. At this level, general concepts and strategy are much more useful than fast and hard tactical evaluation. Because of this, full board analysis makes much more use of right brain intuition and "fuzzy" thinking, where local search problems are almost all left-brain tactics.

Hope this helps,
Wessik.

Thank you for all of the responses. In particular, I think the tips about counting were very good. I don't often count in a game, and perhaps that is why I find myself in this situation.

Thank you again.

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be immersed

I'd be happy if I can even figure out which part of the board is the biggest. Either I play one move too many in a part of the board, or I tenuki one move too early. At least, that's how it seems a lot of my games tend to go.