Spiritual guidance – In preparing for the philosophy for a church service at Monkwearmouth Spiritualist Church I was asking spirit about suicide as they had guided me to talk about it.

The guidance they gave me was a reminder that we are first and foremost Spirit not the physical form we take on the Earth plane. When in spirit we choose the lessons we want to experience and learn in our coming incarnation in life there is always the option of a reset button.

This is for when the lessons and experiences are too painful for us to learn in this life time, we have bitten off much more than we can chew as such. There must be a reset button available for us which enables us to start spiritually again and choose a life where the lessons are given in smaller steps or more support is made available for us to understand the lessons we have chosen to experience. When we return to Spirit after pressing the reset button we return that pure Spirit state of love and light and are not harmed by our journey but have learnt from the experience on our souls journey.

The pain and confusion (grief) that loved ones experience having being left after a suicide enables higher level questioning of purpose of life, our experience of love and pain and the opportunity for spiritual growth. However, this, for many, is an exceptionally difficult time to move on from and be able to accept. Using the pain as growth can provide purpose from loss. The knowledge that our loved ones in spirit never leave us and are out of the pain can help survivors find a path through one of the hardest learning curves that can be given to us.