seperating thoughts from actions

It seems like I am finally making some headway with my therapist. Perhaps this will help someone else as well. Lately I have been thinking my intrusive thoughts intentionally and practicing seperating my thoughts from my physical actions. I noticed that my brain may be telling me that I could have an urge to do the thoughts that I get in my head, however my body has no desire to carry them out. I finally feel like I have a little breathing room. So, if this is new information to you, I encourage that you try this meathod of achknowledging a thought, even blatantly thinking it, then taking a breath and realising that you have no desire to carry out this thought physically. Any thoughts on this?

I tried this, but bringing up my odd urges just makes me want to do them, like place my hand on the stove D:
Whenever there is something hot, I want to touch it. Like the kettle, a bunsen burner....eep.

This is a step in the right direction for you. It is EXTREMELY difficult to recognize OCD thoughts/feelings from real thoughts/feelings. Both are stimuli, and therein lies the problem. OCD thoughts/feelings are synthetic, they are fake and one can only recognize the difference when calm and objectve (something that doesn't happen when you're spiking). Anxiety can mimic anything.