Profile Training

The Earworm

This might seem a little 'off-topic', but I think it's important - certainly important enough to want to give you the opportunity of trying out a technique that I've passed on to a few people, and have found myself using often.
I think nearly everyone gets the occasional 'earworm' - you know...when a few bars of a tune get so lodged in your head that you think it'll never disappear...and it always seems to be a tune that you hate or that's so inane that you probably should hate it.
My simple little mind trick for you then:
Picture the tune in question as an old vinyl record, playing on an old-fashioned record player. Get a clear impression of the label, with the tune's title visible and (if you can follow it round and round). See it revolving as it plays directly into your brain.
Now, in your mind's eye, stop the record, and start turning it in the other direction, so that it plays backwards.
That's it. Your earworm has now gone.
Don't worry about getting the speed wrong, and don't fret about hearing any secret messages in there...unless you're a real conspiracy theorist, or you were a  really keen reader of the Daily Express in the 1960s.