Understanding the self and the Higher Self - From the MeWe Tree

The next level down is the level of self. Here we find two selves. One is the self and the other is the Higher Self. From an early age, we are cloaked in a human persona designed to enable us to deal with the physical world, the self. The cloak is called by various names including ego, personality, and identity. The cloak serves us well in maintaining our physical bodies; however, when we begin working to link with our Higher Self, we are on a path of discovering that we are truly spiritual beings. You are your Higher Self! Our Higher Selves are contained with our physical bodies. Each Higher Self is an energy that is entwined with DNA. Each Higher Self contains everything there is to know about each of us, and moreover, represents our link, our gateway to all other knowledge.

Awakening is about accepting your Higher Self and establishing contact. Everyone can do this. Each of us can manifest communicating with his or her Higher Self. There is a way to manifest what you want through Spirit. It is possible to do so without consciously communicating with your Higher Self; however, the process of manifesting becomes so much easier and powerful through communication with the Higher Self.

Before exploring actual communication, let's take a few moments and talk about the Higher Self. Before each of us comes into physical being, the Spiritual entity that we are is whole. There are lessons that we have yet to learn that linger on from other lives (karma); however, that learning is specific to our human existences, not to our Spiritual selves. The purpose of a human existence is to demonstrate that through free will, we can find our way back to Spirit and lead our lives as heaven on Earth. Most of struggle with our humanness, and we create karma as we go through life.

Karma is created when we fail to love our fellow humans and our Earth. When we create karma through an unloving action, the law of the universe responds with an equal and opposite reaction. This does not mean that if you act in fear, love will be returned to you in equal measure. It does mean that if you act in fear, the fear will be returned back to you in equal measure. When it returns to us, we have an opportunity to heal.

Our Higher Self is separated from us by the "veil." The veil consists of built in limitations of our bodies and minds that prevent us from fully perceiving our Higher Selves and the realm of Spirit. The veil separates us from our Higher Self and the part of us that is from and of Spirit or the soul. When we die, the soul rejoins the Higher Self, and we are made whole once more.

To communicate with our Higher Self is altogether possible. First, please realize that your Higher Self is constantly trying to communicate with you. What we experience as intuition or flashes of insight represent instances when we are aware of what the Higher Self is saying. The next step is to give intent to Spirit to hear the Higher Self. "In the name of Spirit I give intent to communicate directly with my Higher Self," will do nicely, or use words that are comfortable for you. Whatever you say, say it aloud. After you give intent, blank your mind and see what thoughts pop into it. If you have blanked your mind, the words, thoughts, or images that come to you have been generated by your Higher Self. The process is much like tuning an old fashioned radio, the analog kind with the dial that is turned to tune in the station. If you have used one of these, then you may recall that when the station signal is weak, you have to fine-tune the dial, to keep playing with it until the station is as loud as you can get it.

To receive your Higher Self, fine tune your mental radio and keep listening. When I began hearing my Higher Self (after several months of giving intent and tuning), I could only hear a word or short phrase. As I became a better tuner, the messages got longer, and now, I am in direct communication with my Higher Self whenever I choose. My Higher Self often jumps into my consciousness even when I am not focusing on her. (Higher Selves have no sex, but I prefer seeing my Higher Self as female, and she graciously accommodates me as in all things.) One last point, although it took me several months to begin hearing, everyone's experience is different, and yours may take minutes, days, months, or years.

The experience is very subtle. Be very focused on what you are doing, blank your mind, and just listen. If it doesn't work, try again later. Self-love, intention, focus, and practice will get you there. The rewards are great. For starters, I learned that I was really never alone. My Higher Self is always with me from the middle of a crowd to deep in a vast forest with no people around for miles. The sense of comfort and safety is priceless. Moreover, in the matter of manifesting, the Higher Self can advise as to whether something you want is in your best and highest interest. Just ask. Your Higher Self will not tell what you should manifest--that does not come with our free will package.

The understanding at the level of self is clear. We have a self that matches to our physical awareness and serves real needs that we have as humans. There is a Higher Self that is aligned with Spiritual awareness, and the Higher Self is our access to the realms beyond our physical world. It is possible that anyone can learn to communicate bi-directionally with his Higher Self. We are spiritual beings having a human, physical experience, not the other way around. Awareness of one's Higher Self and opening communication with the Higher Self are the beginning of the journey home.

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