Stamping my feet, wiggling my fingers, or during the real heavy contractions I found banging on a bucket helped distract my thoughts from the pain. Whilst swinging my hips down low, if that makes sense? I found the noise of the bucket banging (and DH reckoned he could tell when the ctx peaked as the bucket copped a real workout) really helped, this changed to the door handle of the car during the drive to hospital. I didn't agree with alot of the stuff in Birth Skills, but some of the distraction techniques proved to work really well for me.