If we suppress anything, we feel it is getting away. If we understand something, it also feels it is going away. Now you no longer are burdened by it.
If your body is hungry, you will say, “I am hungry”. If you are aware, you see that your body feels hunger. Now a distance is created. The hunger is still there, if your body is really hungry. But you are separated from it. Suppression means you are not looking at it directly but distracting yourself away from reality. Entertainment is misused as a form of suppression. In awareness it looks as if the thoughts are dying but it is not so. The thoughts are moving, but in awareness, the identification with the thought is no longer given energy. Thought is separated, the bridge has been collapsed. The identification is no longer given energy. Now you are free. now being in this gap, will u know what to do. Whether to really eat or not. this is how u will control your life rather being controlled.
Thoughts are like heavy stone that you hold while living. Be aware and that itself destroys the identification. Now you are free to move.