Good one.... anything to keep it light and tolerable. There is a magic that happens when one totally resigns oneself to their circumstances.

I learned this when coping with an unbearable pain one time. I toke my mind to the source of the pain. I went so far into the pain that I was able to make it go away. I can't explain how it happened but it happened because I thought my way to its source.

I've tried the same approach to sounds and it works with varied success. If I'm too tired it won't work as well. But I take my mind right into the centre of the sound. Doing this causes the sound to disappear. I can keep it away and enjoy total quiet. I'm not deaf to other sounds but yet deaf to the sound that is triggering me.

I guess its a take on a visualization exercise. See it until I am it and can control its impact on me. Not sure how it works.