(If you typed 666 in Google search and you managed to get here, congratulations in having the courage to type 666 at all.)

It took awhile for me to get over 666.  Now I don’t think much about it.  If I see it, so what?

Talk to me 2 years ago, it was a different story.  If I saw it, I was looking for a meaning and wondering if it was a sign.  I would dwell on it for awhile.  Would it jinx the rest of the day?

So how did I get over it?  I am not sure, but I think it was a combination of the exposure and cognitive therapy.

So here is a list of things that might be helpful:

• Just like my previous post, let it happen.  Don’t respond to it.  Don’t do rituals.  Don’t undo anything.  Don’t do compulsions.  Tough it out.  If you keep doing this, you’ll probably realize that nothing is going to happen out of the ordinary.
• Don’t believe in jinxing or spiritual contamination.  666 does not affect anything.  If 666 was written on a piece of paper and taped to the wall, the wall is not jinxed, spiritually contaminated, or just plain evil.  Nothing is jinxed or evil.  Not even the paper.
• If something did happen, it has nothing to do with 666.  It is called coincidence.  Coincidences do happen.  Coincidences are not unusual.  Luck is coincidence and it happens all the time.  So is bad luck; it happens all the time too.
• If you are dwelling on it, there is really nothing you can do except let the thoughts play itself out and just try to convince yourself that it means nothing.  The quicker you believe nothing is going to happen, the quicker you’ll assure yourself that everything is going to be OK.  It is one thing to seek assurance from others, but it is quite another to assure yourself all by yourself.
• Don’t think what if something bad is going to happen.  Don’t wonder if something bad is going to happen.  In retrospect, all that thinking was worthless.   Nothing bad did happen.  OCD casts a lot of doubt in the head.  Don’t buy into the doubt.

I know that it is a lot easier said than done.  You just have to keep confronting the fear.  I know that OCD feels so real.  The OCD feelings are so strong that it throws logic out the window.  You just have to go against the OCD feelings or just try to ignore them.  You have to get throw the OCD feelings out the window.

In the past, looking at 666 would strike fear.  Now, I don’t think much of it.  I have gotten desensitized of it.  It is like opposite ends of the spectrum.