OCD pro-tip:
Use logic and acting to bypass your ocd.
*disclaimer: this might not work if you have a generalized anxiety disorder as well or if you suffer from intense debilitating anxiety regularly to the point you can't even calm down
Anyways now to the tip/method:
Use logic & facts.
Research the things you're scared of so you can logically explain to your brain with facts how to navigate your obsessions.
Like germs for example, research how long they stay alive or float in the air, how much of them are actually harmful.
If you have pure ocd, you don't even need to research, just remember that as long as you're disturbed by the thought, it's not a thought that you agree with. It disturbs you thus it doesn't define you.
And now for the acting part, when you're in a situation that triggers your ocd regularly, (like it's a trigger you're very well aware of it always happens), make the deliberate conscious choice not to stress about it (you're still gonna feel stressed but it's the role you're playing that matters), handle the situation exactly like a normal person without ocd would.
And here's the backbone of all of this: prioritize your survival over irrational fears.
For example:
Touching the doorknob is not a direct threat to your survival, you're not gonna die. Your skin is a great barrier for germs.
The reason why you're able and allowed to bypass ocd by acting like a normal person, is because both you and that person without ocd are not going to die from what your ocd makes you fear.
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If you don't have ocd, and you're not sure but you suffer from intrusive thoughts.
Practice detachment:
-it disturbs you, and that proves that it isn't you, and you don't agree with it (pure ocd)
-acceptance (if you're already traumatized and have seen horrible things it'll be easy to just accept it and let the thought be)
-don't engage with it, analyze it, or argue with it, the thought scientifically has exactly 90 seconds firing time, if you can just sit with the discomfort for those 90 seconds (or redirect your focus to something else or something physical), eventually the neurological pathway will expire and that intrusive thought will stop coming up in your mind
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What does this have to do with loa? Not much. I just wanted to help out others with ocd the way I saved myself because my blog specifically caters to the people that the general Loa community doesn't, people who live in debilitating circumstances, with horrible conditions that can't just be ignored with "circumstances don't matter".
It probably does help with loa in a way though,
By realizing that your negative thoughts don't have that much power. You have all the power
(you: the observer, the awareness behind the thought),
the thoughts are simply neurons firing in your brain.
You decide what's valid and what's not. Choose wisely.
You have that authority as the creator of the rest of your life.