Higher Self

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I read this posting from Aine Belton - I am a huge fan of her work and wanted to share this article with you!

By Aine Belton

 Your Higher Self is the aspect of your consciousness closest to Source – the eternal spiritual being that you really are beyond your personality self.
This ‘you’ exists beyond space and time and the confines of this third dimensional reality, and is the overseer of your multi selves – past, present and future, conscious and subconscious.
Your Higher Self is more loving, wise, and magnificent than anything you may imagine. It knows all you have been, all you are now, and all you are becoming, in this life-time and others, and is aware of the countless possibilities available for your growth and success and that which will serve you optimally.
Your Higher Self knows you inside out and loves you totally and unconditionally. Its love and vast, all-encompassing perspectives can gift your life immeasurably, pierce the veils and limits of your personal beliefs and limited understandings, and bring truth and light to even the darkest areas.
You can connect and communicate with this exalted self and receive its love, guidance, healing and support (I share one way of doing so at the end of this article).
It is important to ask for help, and be open and willing to receive it, for your Higher Self loves and respects you too much to force anything upon you. It is, however, ever at your side, whether you are aware of that presence or not, and always willing and desiring to help.
The voice of your Higher Self is always loving and kind about you, though it can be direct at times. It does not pander to pity, but does have great compassion for you, and wishes only for your return to truth; the truth of who you are, and the truth that you are loved, loving and loveable, ever and always.
Your Higher Self can communicate with you in any number of ways. Your intuition and subtle senses can be gateways to receive its insights, but there are many other ways, one of which I outline further below.
Meditation creates fertile ground for the voice of your higher self to be heard. When your conscious mind is quiet and stilled, space is created for inspirations to be received, as well as a balancing and realignment of your energy. Getting off the hamster wheel of your ‘monkey mind’, with its tape-loops of constricting thoughts and feelings, allows space for higher wisdom to dawn.
The wisdom of your higher self is sourced in love, will optimally serve you, and reaches beyond the confines of your conditioned mind. It is the golden compass that points ever towards the truth of who you are, your highest path and potential, the true nature of reality, and the love at the heart of all.
When you connect to this ‘grander you’, the unlimited divine being that you are, you become aware not only how immeasurably loved you are, but that all you need exists within you.

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Meditation to Connect with your Higher Self

As mentioned, I believe meditation is one of the best ways to connect to your Higher Self, as is anything that enhances greater love in your life – love for self, others and the world.
Below is an example meditation you might like to explore to connect with your Higher Self. If visualization is not your thing, I’ll be sharing a writing technique in a future post, and intuition practices can also help you build pathways to your Higher Self and spiritual insights and guidance beyond the everyday perspectives of conditioned thinking.
1. Relax, close your eyes, and enter a meditative state in whatever way works for you by calming your mind and getting to a still, quiet, and deeply relaxed space. Perhaps by taking a hot soothing bath, listening to relaxing music, counting backwards, slowing your breathing, imagining pleasant imagery, or you might want to listen to the relaxation intro of a guided meditation recording if you have one.
2. When deeply relaxed, imagine a place in nature in your mind’s eye. This could be an somewhere you’ve been before, or somewhere entirely new made up with your imagination, whether it’s an ocean beach, forest grove, the bank of a riverside, a garden or meadow or mountain top.
If visualization isn’t your thing, just get in touch with a sense of it if nothing else, as this is what’s most important, and your intention is what matters.
Make this place as vivid as possible by engaging all of your senses. Try to see any sights you can in detail, smell the air, feel the breeze against your face, and the ground beneath you, reach out and touch something and make it real.
3. Now allow your Higher Self to come to you. For this, have them appear as a human being, likely your gender, seeing them walking towards you, some way away perhaps. They can adopt a human form to better interact with you. Don’t worry if you feel like you’re just imagining it or making it up; your imagination is a platform to help co-create the experience, and the energy of your Higher Self can still come and be with you.
4. See your Higher Self walk towards you. See the love in their eyes, and experience them reach out their hands to embrace you. Feel that embrace. Allow yourself to be received by them.
However vividly or vaguely you experience them, know that they are there and have come to be with you. Just be open to their presence.
If you find it easier, simply imagine them as shimmering light of some kind (such as spherical or oval in shape, or whatever feels comfortable).
Allow that light to wrap around and embrace you in its glowing love.
5. Now together, spend some time with your Higher Self. You may have some questions to ask, in which case see if you hear a reply or if an awareness, image or thought dawns on you. As I am more visual than audio inclined, I sometimes imagine my Higher Self with a white-board and see them writing answers, either in pictures or words, for example. Sometimes I get them to write a message with their finger on my back, letter by letter, as I am sensitive to touch.
Just be open and explore, there’s not q wrong or right way of doing this exercise. If you experience little consciously, that’s OK, just know that they are there for you and love you totally and unconditionally. Make an intention to open to this love if nothing else.
One thing you can do is simply lie down in this place in nature in your mind’s eye and ask your Higher Self to heal you. You may see or sense them placing hands over or upon areas of your body, or light or energy. You may feel emotions or thoughts move through you. You may sense nothing it all, which is also fine. Just be open to receive this healing and allow whatever needs to be done occur at a more subtle energetic level.
This meditation becomes more and more vivid with practice. Like everything in life, new pathways of experience need to be built through flexing like muscles.
If visualization isn’t your ‘thing’, I’ll be sharing a writing technique for connecting to your Higher Self in a future issue.

Love and Blessings,

Jean Fisher-Taylor