Your Higher Self is your pure spiritual essence. Some people also refer to this as your Higher Power or Authentic Self.
Your Higher Self is all of you, from the personal to the transpersonal.
One way to think of your Higher Self is as a vast tree, and your current life is one of the leaves on this tree.
To make it easier for the mind to understand, you can think of yourself as having three parts, although like a human body, or a tree, every part is connected and part of the whole. These three parts of you include you as a human person, your Soul and the Pure Spirit of your Higher Self.
It can be helpful to think about this less as a type of hierarchy and more as a delegation of responsibilities.
- Your Human Self, this includes your personality, mind, emotions and ego. These parts of you are mainly involved in living your life through the three dimensional experience of being a person here on earth. These parts of you might be the most familiar to you. However they are temporary, and limited to this current life, like the way a leaf only lives for a season on a tree, before being shed.
- Your Soul is responsible for completing your Soul’s contracts, your Soul’s missions for your current life, and any other desires your Soul has chosen to experience for your learning and growth in this life, and in any other past or future lives your Soul chooses to incarnate in.
- The Pure Spirit of your Higher Self is responsible for overseeing and supporting all of your lives, and all other forms of existence you are experiencing, past, present and future.
How over identification with the human parts of yourself can be limiting
Your human personality, mind, emotions and ego can be wonderful tools for learning and growth, however, over identification with them can make things difficult.
Due to how overwhelming the physical, mental and emotional sensations of being a person here on earth are, for many people it can be easy to identify more with their own human personality. As a result their conscious, felt experience of their Soul, and the Pure Spirit their Higher Self can be limited.
Due to life’s experiences, challenges, traumas, family dynamics, education, relationships, social and cultural influences, it is very difficult for a human personality to avoid holding some distortions and limiting beliefs. This can lead to behaving in ways that are limited, often as a learnt survival or protective strategy.
Compassion is what is needed. We all have these aspects of ourselves. What is important is our willingness to see these parts of ourselves, listen to them, understand them, and with unconditional love and compassion, be present with them, and allow healing and integration to take place.
In many ways, the best resource for your healing is the Pure Spirit of your Higher Self, as it supports and informs your Soul, and you as a person, with unconditional love, higher guidance, wisdom and intelligence from a vast reservoir of energy and experience.
Many people might have a sense of their Soul and the Pure Spirit of their Higher Self. Some might even have a type of relationship with these parts of themselves, however this may not be a regular, deliberate, conscious communion.
As your Personal Spirit Guide can be a wonderful bridge between you, your Soul, and the Pure Spirit of your Higher Self, you also have the opportunity to directly connect with these parts of yourself.
Why it is good to commune with your Soul and your Higher Self
One of the most rewarding aspects of a spiritual practice is having the opportunity to develop a conscious relationship with your Soul, and the Pure Spirit of your Higher Self. This gives you direct access to your true essential energies, that sustain, strengthen, inspire and guide you.
This is an adventure of remembering and being, who and what you really are.
In this process of remembering and being who and what you really are, there is the opportunity for you to embody and ground your true essence, through you and into the world.
Your human body, personality, mind and ego are still present, however they are being purified, enlightened, and healed, so they can then act more and more in service, and in harmony, with your Soul, and the Pure Spirit of your Higher Self.
This helps you to be more present in the world from your pure essence. Your communion with your Soul and the Pure Spirit of your Higher Self can then inform and guide you about how to make choices that serve your highest good, so you can move forward in ways that support your learning, growth and ongoing evolution.
The more you practise, the more you will feel and experience…
I recommend making time to practise connecting to your Soul and to the Pure Spirit of your Higher Self. As you do, you will feel and experience more and more of who and what you really are.
If you feel draw to develop your connection to your Higher Self, I offer one-on-one Intuitive Coaching sessions and Personal Spiritual Development Classes.
Also available, Psychic Readings, Energy Healings and Past Life Regressions.
