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we only suffer when we believe our thoughts. when we question them to see if they are really true, often the suffering stops right away. when we suffer we want out of the suffering, and sometimes that means an end to the physical body, but the mind will remain, so it is not a way out in the long run ... just the short sighted way out.

thoughts of ending it all, when allowed to be a part of the whole of all that is, will often end on their own, and what is replaced, after having questioned our thoughts, is laughter. i've experienced this time and again.

okay, so a thought comes up and it brings up certain emotions. if we have a belief, we will get caught up in the thought and get carried away with it. if a thought comes up and we don't believe it to be true, it vanishes as fast as it came in.

so we want to question the thoughts that stick around and bring us down.

ask yourself if the thought is true. if you answer yes, ask yourself if you know that it is absolutely true? it can at that point be a yes, and often it will come up as a no when we ask for the absolute truth. it doesn't matter ... a yes or no is fine.

the next question will be this: how do you react when you think that thought? then answer that so you can get all the feelings out from within you.

after you feel complete, ask yourself this: who would i be without that thought -- a thought you could never think again? then go into how that would be or how you would be living your life.

now you want to turn the thought around:

you do that by looking at the opposite, the other, or my thinking, to see if any of that could be just as true.

here is an example of an all too common statement that people feel about themselves: "something is wrong with me"

here is an example of a woman asking these questions:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzjlhg9lc9k