Lester Levenson's advice on depression and how to stop it before it starts

Lester Levenson's advice on depression and how to stop it before it starts

The World Health Organization reports that someone commits suicide every 40 seconds. 800,000 people take their own lives. This is more than wars and natural disasters. There's been a lot of talk lately about depression and suicide among stars like Robin Williams. Why would a brilliant and successful guy like him take his own life? What would take someone this far? What was his mind doing in that moment that told him 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 also a physicist and a millionaire. He cured himself of incurable heart disease in 1952 at the age of 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 full of useless and infected files. It can never help us because IT is the problem. We're looking for answers there, but it's only going to make things worse. The mind is just a junkyard of the past. It's a recording/playback device that won't really help us. It sees the future as limited by what is stored there as our experience. Before I found and used KISS Releasing, I was depressed for a long time. I saw everything as dark and negative, with no hope whatsoever. It is extremely painful and the hopelessness can make you want to end your life. I'm sure Williams experienced that. His lifelong drug and cocaine abuse exacerbated the problems.

Lester had this advice. 1. Learn KISS Releasing and use it every day. It will keep you away from 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 believing the Spirit, we spiral into a mental vortex of negativity that will be difficult to get out of. 2. Stay in the now. Depression always focuses on the past and the future and leaves us feeling hopeless. Both are illusions of the mind and are NOT true. Ask yourself if this is true or is it a fantasy. You can't change the past, but you can change your reaction to it now. 3. Read books by masters and highly spiritual people. It will lift you up so you can't be sad. 4. Help others. Be as selfless as possible. You shouldn't become depressed. It's impossible. “Selflessness is the greatest selfishness,” he said. 5. Exercise. It breaks the resistance in your body and will lift you.

He told me that people who kill themselves come back and face the same problems again. So it's not a solution, just a temporary escape. 6. Lester said, "Love, love, love. You will be so happy, so healthy, and so successful." When you love, it is not possible to become depressed.

So there are a smart man's answers on how to keep depression away. I use it all the time and it works

Inspired by Stephen Seretan