That is very difficult to deal with as a therapist as it can feel like soul murder or the threat of total negation of the healing qualities manifesting through you. It can catalyze confusion around guilt and responsibility as well as challenge our core beliefs about life. It’s an extremely important theme which at some stage could lead to another book 🙂
Parts of this answer will make more sense as the course continues.
The duality of suicide is murder. Both are frozen in the need for the Nondual Quality of Unconditional Release (a quality we often believe is only possible through death). The suicidal emotion is a seemingly unbearable charge of rage turned in on itself, where the ‘kill or be killed’, ‘either-or’, ‘me V life’ binary mind starts to spin in a loop in isolated pockets of despair within the psyche. It results from a core split in the psyche in which life tries to kill life.
There is a big difference between suicidal emotion and suicide itself. There is an incredible poverty right now in that the suicidal energy is often repressed, suppressed, and denied in a therapeutic context which can lead to a build-up of voltage. When this charge rises out of the heart and into the mind, the state of confusion, compulsion, or split can lead to suicidal action.Therefore, when working with suicidal energy, we tend to ask the client to find it in the lower half of the body and in the physicality, This grounding movement and recognition of the despair that is being experienced releases pressure from the area – we give it more space, more time as an emotion.
When there is a suicide, everyone doubts themselves and there is the release of a tsunami of suffering. Please allow the possibility that this is part of that soul’s journey with life, in which they have the sacred freedom to work out spiritual conflicts through the process of directly experiencing outcomes. I believe that this process of working through conflict in the field of experience continues also after physical death, with a lot of support. If you would like to book a session to work through this a little more together, please feel free to do so!
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