I had been speaking in generalities for people to apply how they saw fit. Not knowing what is troubling you specifically it will be hard to give advice, but here goes- Don't sing you are my sunshine, if you're not happy. You would be repressing your true feelings. You know you are pulling the wool over your own eyes so to speak. We instinctively want to run from unpleasant thoughts and feelings so we block things out...big mistake.

Investigate it by 1) doing what I said in the first post or 2) putting it into perspective by knowing it is causing you to suffer. How do you get to that place? How do you end suffering? Staying in the present moment. How do you stay in the present moment? Pay attention for a few minutes to your breathing and ONLY your breathing...watch your chest rise and fall, hear the breath go in and out, etc. If you have a thought "watch it", but don't get attached to it...allow it to leave as it came. No attachment to it. You are at that moment "in" the present moment.

Read: The Power of Now, by Eckhart Tolle or watch his youtube videos. I have read many different things- books and on the internet. It's basically some cognitive skills along with spiritual development- called "enlightenment" or "awakening"...you can look up just those 2 words on the internet and get loads of info or search youtube.

If you have unresolved "stuff" then I would ask is there anything you can actually "do" to change what it is you're thinking about? If not, then your mind is causing you the suffering by holding on to old stuff- the mind/brain likes to problem solve and if there isn't a clear cut solution it sometimes will play over and over and over the same old stuff trying and trying to come to a conclusion or solution....the thing is there may not be one. You may just have to let it go.

Sometimes letting it go means to forgive maybe you need to forgive yourself or maybe you need to forgive someone else. Forgiving is not the same as forgetting, however forgiving is the first step to eventually forgetting- so you don't suffer anymore.

I had a big setback in my thinking this summer, had a manic episode in Aug/Sept...not pretty....BUT I had let myself "forget" everything I had learned in the past. It's easy to do, the ego takes over, you get engrossed in "problems" and boom there you go- you lose yourself! Then illness isn't far behind all that dysfunction, but I'm back now and don't plan on becoming that unconscious again.

Glad to help if I didn't cover what it is that's bothering you let me know, but don't know how long I'll be on tonight, then have to work in the morning, but I will reply when I can.

Dijmart