S.O.T.T: 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. This is an effect that psychologists have been studying, on and off, for at least a hundred years. The hope is that if words can come to have no meaning through repetition then perhaps negative ideas and thoughts can be tackled in the same way...read more>>>...
