The World Health Organization reports that every 40 seconds someone commits suicide. 800,000 people take their lives. That is more than wars and natural disasters. There’s been a lot of talk lately about depression and the suicides of stars like Robin Williams. Why would a brilliant and successful guy like him take his own life? What would bring someone to that point? What was his mind doing at that moment that he told her that this was the only way to ease the haunting pain?
Lester Levenson, the creator of the KISS Releasing System and my teacher/friend for 11 years, had the best solutions for this. He was not only a fully realized Master, but he was also a physicist and a millionaire. He was cured of terminal heart disease in 1952 at age 42 and lived to be 83. “The mind is the enemy,” he told me. What did he mean? It is this. The mind is like a million-year-old computer hard drive filled with useless and infected files. He can never help us because YOU are the problem. We look for answers there, but it will only make things worse. The mind is just a junkyard from the past. It’s a recording/playback machine that won’t really help us. See the future as limited by what is stored there as our experience. Before I found and used KISS Releasing, I used to have long bouts of depression. I saw everything as dark and negative hopefully whatever. It is extremely painful, and hopelessness can lead you to end your life. I’m sure this is what Williams was experiencing. Her lifetime of drug and cocaine abuse exacerbated the problems.
Lester had this advice. 1. Learn KISS Releasing and use it every day. It will keep you out of depression and show that the mind is lying to you. The 6 steps of KISS will keep the Truth in front of you. When we start to believe the mind, we fall into a mental vortex of negativity from which it will be difficult for us to get out. 2. Stay in the now. Depression always focuses on the past and the future and leads us to hopelessness. Both are illusions of the mind and are NOT true. Ask yourself if this is true or if this is crazy. You can’t change the past, but you CAN change your reaction now. 3. Read books by Masters and people of great spirituality. It will keep you up so you can’t be sad. 4. Help others. Be as selfless as you can. You can’t be depressed doing this. It is impossible. “Selflessness is the greatest selfishness,” he said. 5. Exercise. It breaks the resistance in your body and it will lift you up.
He told me that people who commit suicide will come back and have to face the same problems all over again. So it’s not a solution, just a temporary escape. 6. Lester said, “Love, love, love. You will be so happy and healthy and prosperous.” When you love, it is not possible to be depressed.
So there are answers from a smart man on how to stay out of depression. I use it all the time, and it works.
