I’m sure I’ve mentioned this before but anyway let me repeat kontextmaschine’s favorite self-metaprogramming trick

Humans can hold about 7 different concepts in short-term memory at the same time, so if you’re having a thought or a memory you don’t want to, you can fill up the stack with other things - they don’t have to be complicated things, they can be like “the number 6″ or “the color red”

And if you fill it all the way up you can pop the wrong thought off before you form any connections to it to be stored in longer-term memory, and if you keep doing this you can keep it from forming any connections while the existing ones degrade and eventually it won’t come to mind again

I figured this out when I was like 6 and have the sense I did this about a few things but I couldn’t tell you what, because it worked

Anyway the more advanced level is as you get close to the maximum, the wrong thought gets somehow compressed and with practice you can examine it as if encased in lucite without feeling it and address it a bit before sending it off, kinda like MDMA therapy for PTSD, and after a few cycles you can reaccept it as defused and harmless