I am so glad it helped you. Everything I told you is from my experience.

“I understand that thoughts are not real and that they are not dangerous but what I find difficult is making a thought less scary.” – That was my problem too and more probably still is but its not surfaced yet. To make your thought less scary is to stop thinking of your thought like is scary, automatically. You don’t have to be scared, I think you might have slipped in an automatic thought process/belief.. You already think your thoughts are scary, so they are. Because it’s about your perception. If you start to feel scared just because you have a simple thought, stop yourself and ask why am I scared? If you try to be rational, the power of fear lessens.. cause the fear has power over you exactly because you don’t question it.

Start questioning your fears.