Nod. Just having something I can do helps eliminate the noise. When I'm exercising, I sometimes count my breaths in 4x4x4 blocks (each breath is a block, and when I'm done I have four rows and four columns stacked four high, creating a bigger cube). Well, if I'm bothered by a mild obsession, I can often chase it away by just starting to do that.
That's why I think of it as "noise"... kind of like a radio signal. If you're listening to static, you might hear something that sounds meaningful, but when you've got a good signal, and something is being said over it, you'll only hear what is being said. The signal overwhelms the noise.
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Date: 2008-02-27 07:05 pm (UTC)That's why I think of it as "noise"... kind of like a radio signal. If you're listening to static, you might hear something that sounds meaningful, but when you've got a good signal, and something is being said over it, you'll only hear what is being said. The signal overwhelms the noise.