The Jim Carrey technique

I picked up a technique first from Anthony Robbins, and then from a couple of books I read a neurolinguistic programming

In a nut shell, the idea is to change memories so that they feel different. Basically you break the memory so it doesn't have the same emotional impact.

For example, if you have a fantasy come to mind, Change it. You can make the sound muffled or in slow-motion, you can make the visual part of that image blurry and broken up. Almost as if it was an old fashion videotape that was dragging

Or you can make it funny. Sometimes I picture the scene from dumb and dumber where Jim Carrey says "do you want to hear the most annoying sound in the world", so I use that to break the fantasy. I picture Jim carry screaming in my ear.... Which completely changes me from the feeling of the lust/fantasy and makes me smile.