I, too, have learned to lessen the horrific impact of my SP episodes a bit through the application of a bit of mindfulness, in the meditative sense, to the whole thing. After several years of the whole thing, somehow I found myself able to become self-aware enough during an episode to invoke the classic meditative attitude of non-judgmental witnessing. This proved to be a permanent shift. It doesn’t actually lessen the horror, but it does make it seem semi-abstracted, in the same way that all phenomena are less immersive and dominating from that attitude of the awakened witness. Naturally, I have half-entertained ideas about the possible psychological-alchemical transmutation of the horror into something else, perhaps something life-ful and beneficial, via this approach.