How to stop OCD by myself once and for all?

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The OCD I have is robbing me of my good life quality for the past few years. I do a lot of riturals that are as redicoulous as when I am typing, I backspace and type the words again to ease my anxiety. I do these strange riturals over possible events that could happen, like when I read about real news that I do not want to happen, when I walk somewhere, I do a rigid but rediculous ritural of walking back to a certain point and walking back and forth. I do riturals in many forms that I could think of in my life like closing doors over again, even doing riturals while I am eating! I want to finally put a STOP to this once and for all or at least keep the OCD completely out of my life of focus and enjoyment! HOWEVER, I DO NOT WANT TO TAKE MEDS. I believe I am stronger than my OCD though my OCD thinks its strong. What strageties would I have to do of my own self (like a type of yoga AND NO MEDS) to keep my OCD from impeding my life? I am desperate to do really stop my OCD once and for all so that I could focus on and enjoy life like I used to be before I fell to my OCD.

If you want to stop it by yourself use CBT on yourself, it's the only way that was able to minimize it for me.

You have to just not perform the compulsions and force yourself to think in another way. It takes a while and is incredibly frustrating but as I said I haven't found any other way.

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Unapologetically, Norny.
-chronically drunk

So for example, If my mind at believes that if I repeat the ritural, it would stop the potential for something I do not want to happen, I would change it to that if you change it without riturals, the bad luck won't happen. Many of my OCDs are over things I cannot control, and my stragety to stop the OCD would be to say things like "its only my Autism" or it's only 'my diagnosis' or I say "whats the difference?", which is the mkst realistic way to answer my OCD. This is because that is the most effective way of questioning my OCD because what I'd the difference doing a compulsion or not on something that has no connection to that compulsion.