PsyBlog reports on How to Give The Slip to Persistent Negative Thought saying:
New evidence supports a hundred-year-old technique for tackling unwanted thoughts.
Have you ever said a word over and over again until it lost its
meaning? It's a trick many discover in childhood which can provide the
first inkling that words aren't the solid, dependable, unchanging labels
they seem.
Instead words start to feel slippery, open to interpretation and (whisper it) interchangeable.
Anyway, it's a fun game: if you like, try it again now: say your own
name over and over again out loud until it loses all meaning.
Yeah right! And in the same category...
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