Why Did My Brother Die When He Was 26 Years Old?
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named Grieving98.
Grieving: Hello, Bob and Cynthia. Thank you for having these sessions. I hope you and The Council are doing well.
My family and I are in great pain right now because we just suffered the loss of my younger brother. He was sick for a while, but we never expected he would die so young.
Council: First we would like to say, in your belief system you feel that you have lost him, but he is still around. You do not see him because you are not in a place now where you believe you can. But he has gone nowhere. He is right here around you. And it is very good for you, at this point, to talk to him, and let him know he was here, and that you love him.
Grieving: My mother is devastated. Why did we have to go through his loss?
Council: There are always many reasons for experiencing loss. First of all, you all agreed to it. And what you wanted to learn was how to accept people for how they are. Did you accept him? Did you do what spirit comes here to do? Did you show him love? Did you try to list, in some way, how he felt? These are all things that came together to see how you would handle it.
So he was wanting to leave this life early, but he came in to do this so he would learn from it, and you all would experience it and learn from it.
Grieving: He was only 26 years old. We feel that we were somehow responsible for it by not being caring enough for him during a difficult time.
Council: First of all, you can never be responsible for anyone’s death. They choose when their lesson that they wanted is over. They choose how they will go through it. They will remember what they wanted to learn when they were here. So it doesn’t matter that you think you are responsible, or the family feels responsible.
The #1 thing right now is to let go of that thought and be happy that you all played this out. And start thinking, what did you learn? How did you feel? What would you do differently? And knowing he is spirit – you are all spirits – and you will be together again. There is no loss. There is only experience and learning, if you liked how you handled things, or didn’t. There are no mistakes. There is nothing wrong.
Grieving: Was he happy living his life amongst us?
Council: It’s exactly what his spirit planned; what you all planned. So whether you think he was happy or not, he was experiencing what he needed to learn from this experience. He was feeling, and growing, and learning from it also.
Grieving: Did his spirit plan for this to happen to us?
Council: Yes. All of you agreed to it. There’s no innocent bystander here. You all said, “Let’s go for it.”
Grieving: Will his spirit come back to our family in some other form?
Council: Eventually, when it’s wanted by all. If not, when you all pass over and leave this life, you will be together that way. But, yes, you will be together.
And so we send you love, we send everyone happiness and hope, and the ability to change their lives and know that they can, and make it exactly the way they want it. And that is why we’re all here right now. Love to you all.
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How Can We Help My Aunt with Her Depression?
This post answers questions for The Council from a reader named, Looking For Advice, who says: For the last few years my aunt has slipped into a depression. She was a happy and lively woman before, but ever since she became depressed she’s lost the essence of herself.
The Council says the depression is something she’s gone into because she’s focusing on a lot of loss she’s gone through, she’s feeling alone, and she’s close to the end of her life. There is a withdrawing going on and you should allow this withdrawing to happen.
In spirit your aunt prepared to have many disappointing experiences and losses and then to go into this depression to look at each of these experiences. While in her depression your aunt wanted to be surrounded by caring people and experiencing love. Even though she’s withdrawn her spirit can feel this love.
The way to help your aunt is not to treat her as a depressed person, but to speak energetically with her. Talk about daily events, news, and things on television. Keep your aunt in the present moment and get her interested in what’s going on around her. If she’s feeling cared for and allows these feelings from her family and friends to come into her energy field, she’ll slowly come out of this depression.
You have to give your aunt time to experience her feelings and thoughts of loss and think about what she’d like to do with the rest of her life. She’s in a time of withdrawal and during this she’s creating her future.
Looking For Advice says: My aunt’s family has tried all sorts of doctors and praying to different gods, but she’s not even close to the way she was. She’s even undergone thyroid surgeries to make it a little better, but nothing seems to be helping. The Council says the thyroid surgeries aren’t the answer.
The Council says when you experience a lot of loss or a lot of hurt from the people around you, while it’s going on you can ignore it and put it in the back of your mind in order to live your day to day life. When you get older and things quiet down, these memories start to come back into your awareness and make the havoc you weren’t willing to face when you originally experienced them. You must allow your aunt to go through this.
You can ask her if she wants to talk about anything from her past. You can bring up good memories to give her positive thoughts, but the main thing is to show love. By allowing her to be who she is she can work her way through this depression.
The Council closes by saying instead of trying to get your aunt to be her old self, love her by allowing her to be in this challenge that she’s set up for herself. Her higher self wants to go through this depression and find it’s way out.
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Abortion, Loss, Reincarnation, Life, Love, Expansion – Beth’s Story: A Spiritual Perspective
This post describes a session with The Council in response to the comment and questions below from Beth on the subject of abortion. The session is full of thought-provoking ideas on lots of different subjects of interest to many people in addition to Beth. Particularly interesting to us is light that The Council sheds on how our spirit’s intentions often manifest in surprising and unexpected ways in our human experience.
Ordinarily we like to offer a sort of running commentary in these posts if we feel it can add some clarity to something The Council says during a session, but it seemed to make this post too long and wordy. It also seemed to place more emphasis on understanding what The Council is saying rather than on appreciating the feeling of the energy offered by The Council and spirit in response to Beth’s questions. More and more we are learning from The Council that what’s important about spiritual understanding is that it’s a focus of attention that allows you to feel in your physical experience more of the love you are as a spiritual being.
As you read through the post, see if you can feel the energy of this session resonating with your spirit. If a clear understanding doesn’t come right away, be patient with yourself and let your connection to who you are as a spiritual being shed light on the material presented here. Give yourself some time. You are always welcome to use the Comment section following the post to ask a question about this material and we’ll do our best to reply.
Beth’s Comment and Questions
“I have a question about abortions as it relates to the Soul and the Soul’s agreement…the Soul of the child, specifically.
“You see I have unfortunately had to make the decision (twice) in my life to terminate what I perceived as ‘untimely’ pregnancies.
“I have a lot of guilt around these decisions, not because of any religious reasons, but more because I am not sure what I did was the right decision for my life’s path.
“Also, I often feel sad wondering how those two Souls (or maybe it was the same Soul) feel/felt that I chose to terminate their little lives.
“I fully believe that those Souls made some type of agreement with me, but I’m wondering if you could shed light on what those agreements may have been.
“Did those little Souls know that they would play this role?
“Is it the same Soul trying to come back in?
“Would I be able to find out more about them, and who they might have become had I chosen differently?
“If we come back in similar Soul groups, could this Soul have been one that I also lost in a previous life (I believe I was pregnant when drowned)?
“I realize that these are many questions, not one, but I am grateful for your input.”
–Beth
You Can Not Stop Life
Reading Beth’s comment and questions to The Council at the beginning of the session, they were quick to comment at the end of her first sentence.
“We really want to laugh here… the word abortion… what does it mean?
“Abort… Stop… Stop life?
“You can not stop life.
“It is all in choosing, and agreements, and experiences.
“And so we just wanted to add that in there.
“Beth did not stop a life… did not cut a life short… everything went as planned.”
–The Council
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1) You are an eternal spiritual being in a physical body.
You are the energy and vibration of continuously expanding love, intelligence, and joy.
Your physical experience in your physical body and your psychological experience of your personality is a small part of the totality of who you truly are.
Let yourself imagine from time to time what it might feel like to experience more of the wondrous totality of who you really are, and don’t be surprised if you are able to experience this more often.
2) You are the creator of all that you experience.
As you open to the possibility your true nature is greater than you ordinarily perceive, it becomes easier to consider the possibility that this expanded you is truly the creator of everything that you experience.
If you’re used to thinking of yourself in a more limited sense, the idea that you are the creator of your experience may be difficult to understand. Our post, What About This Idea That We Create Whatever We Desire, offers insights into this idea.
3) You are here to expand the love you are into physical reality.
You chose, as a spiritual being, to come into this physical reality to experience the joy of expanding the love you are as a spiritual being, into this physical reality. This is your purpose for being here.
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