How to disarm and weaken ego reactions!
The main means to avoid the impact of sensory impressions on your mind and to restrain the emotional and mental reactions triggered by them, is to withdraw your attention from both (impressions and reactions) and bring it into the inner silence.
Just as the turtle withdraws its legs, head and tail (its limbs) into its shell to protect itself from external dangers, so we withdraw our attention from the senses and mind into the silent space of Consciousness to be protected from sensory impressions and the emotional mental reactions of the ego.
By being centered in silence we avoid identification with mental and emotional formations, we can manage them and let them go or make them remit and through prayer and the power of the mantra diminish the energy of the egoic tendency (desire, emotion, etc.).