Shifting perspectives when worry appears
Changing the channel (moving the radio dial, with this schht! static sound) ... is the thing I envision now when a worry-type-thought appears in my head.
I no longer say, "it's ok, sweetie!" or some similar "soothing" thought because my mind rebels against those thoughts! It doesn't feel soothing at all! Because the vibration is too disparate from the original thought.
To make that work, I'd need to latch onto a transitional type of thought, a bridge emotion, that feels better but only like one notch or so above the original thought ... not so far away that my mind goes, "no way!!!"
This is a really cool distinction because it's SO very helpful to me ... so useful in my world!