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Life can be hard on people. Some handle it well with a good attitude. It is what you think about yourself that matters most. Good attitudes do not just happen, they are built, word by word, and thought by thought. I want you to see this video. Click on picture.
Are You Going To Finish Strong? Nick Vujicic Video Awesome video! If you watch only one video today make sure it is this one! Nick Vujicic has no limbs but he leads an incredible life!
Affirmations allow us to build those kind of attitudes that help us and others to live through bad times and finish strong. I hope you will try these affirmations in your daily life.
There is no such thing as death. We are spiritual beings, and as spiritual beings enjoy eternal life. It is not necessary to earn it by being “good” sacrificing ourselves for others, nor is it necessary to “believe” certain doctrine written by man, or found in sacred books. Eternal life is our birthright, given us freely by our Creator along with our Creator’s unconditional love. Our lives in the physical can be full of joy, happiness, and love. Only we can determine the direction of our lives. We are the creators of our own reality.
Life can be very, very hard for some of us. The pain of life can become unbearable and at such times it seems that the only way out is to kill oneself. I know this feeling because I have killed myself. My suicide was not a cry for help. I made sure that nobody was going to find me before I died. Mine was a genuine and sincere attempt to kill myself. I was finished, I could continue no more and I followed the only course of action that I thought was right. I took a massive overdose.
Before you die there is the possibility that things could improve, one way or another. Once you’ve killed yourself though, you can’t turn back. Not unless a miracle happens. Such a miracle did happen to me when I made my suicide attempt. Because while I did certainly succeed in dying and leaving this world, I was assured by people in the next world that I’d made a big mistake and was sent back into my body, which only by a miracle of God, revived itself without any medical assistance.
My suicide was back in 1976. I was very lonely and depressed and quite simply did not want to continue living nor did I see any purpose in my living. My life seemed a futile and empty existance. I felt it was time to say goodbye to this world. Late in the evening I took a massive overdose, put the Pink Floyd, “Wish You Were Here” album on and settled down to die quietly.
Three days later I found myself lying on the living room floor. I couldn’t stand up and was so weak I could only crawl. But I was alive. I remembered having left my body and spending quite some time, (I don’t know how long but it seemed like a long time) in a place somewhere, sitting and listening to some people talking to me. I felt relaxed in this place and with these people, They were very nice and understanding people and they were telling me that this was not the way it had to be, that I did not have to kill myself and that I could go back and live again. They totally reassured me that I was supposed to be alive and there was a purpose for it. There was no judgement there from these people, only love and compassion. These people seemed to know me and I got the distinct impression that they were aware of my life and all of the problems I had been going through. They knew with utter certainty that my life was worth living and that I should go back into my body again. They spoke about my life with confidence. I was something special to these people and in their eyes, I was worthy of having my life back. They treated me with the utmost respect and kindness.
So when I found myself back in my body, alive and lying on my living room floor, I was very grateful and happy to be back here again. I had been given a second chance. Later that day I was taken to the hospital and when I told a doctor how many tablets I’d taken he exclaimed, “You should be dead!”
After this suicide NDE I realised that I was not alone. Those people in the spiritual dimension were aware of my life and my every struggle through it. Imagine that while you are in pain and turmoil, that there are people who are watching you and begging you to carry on, not to give up. These people cannot contact you directly because you have to overcome these terrible problems without their help. For they are the people in the spirit world who are invisible to us. And yet these people are hoping and praying that you find the strength to carry on. They don’t want you to give up because they know that if you just carry on a while longer, you will overcome some of these terrible problems and find some respite. They know that you will gain more by simply hanging in there, rather than giving up and taking your own life.
It may seem impossible at times, it may seem pointless to carry on but believe me, I’ve been there and tried suicide. Thankfully I was shown by those people in the spirit world, that suicide is not the answer and does not solve anything. I was lucky because I was sent back to continue my life. The problems I had been suffering from prior to my suicide did not all disappear overnight. However, the realisation that my life was worth living, enabled me to tackle my problems and not just give up.
Just wanted to relate a suicide story. I know that this world is especially tough on our young people right now, and that there are those young people who consider suicide as a way out, I know, I was one. After you read this story I hope you will realize how foolish and self centered it is.
This story is about a 17-year-old high school youth named Tom. He lived across the street with his family from my best friend in the mid-1980’s. He had been doing some PCP (a popular, and very dangerous drug) and it really messed him up psychologically. He was being treated for some months with anti-depressants.
On the first day that he stopped taking them he went into his parent’s bedroom (where there was a cabinet of his step-father’s guns, him being a cop) and shot himself. Apparently he was very resentful of his mother re-marrying and was always acting out, not able to just accept it. His mother had already gone to work for the day so he thought that he was alone at the time. His 8-year-old sister was late going to school and heard the shot and discovered him.
She called her mother at work and the mother came home to find him, dying. Two days later I went over with my friend with some food to visit with her. I notice while we were sitting with her (I was sitting across from her) that there was this flash that streaked toward her on her right side. I thought that this was odd and began thinking about what this could mean later after we had left.
When I really looked at that light what I saw was her son, Tom, racing toward her repeatedly, desperate to get her attention. He was in such agony, because he needed to tell his mother how sorry he was. He thought that by killing himself that he could just be out of pain and that all his problems would be solved. Now he was in his own private hell of his own making and there was no way to stop it.
I can still to this day feel his agony and shock that he was not able to communicate with his mother when he was right there, she couldn’t notice him. He was so very terrified, he didn’t know what else to do. When you die, even by your own hand, you are still conscious, you still know what is going on but are helpless to do anything about it so it makes your problems even worse.
Just do what you have to do to get help. When you are young, you feel like your problems are so permanent that there is nothing that you can do. Don’t believe it, there is always something that you can do. There is always a way out, don’t give up, your life is worth everything. May God Bless the young people of this world, you have value or you wouldn’t be in this world!
