Your Higher Self
There is a great confusion about what is your higher self and what it means to you in this physical experience.
In this article I explain the nature of your HS (higher self) and the benefits will you get if you consciously connect with it.
Your HS is the non-physical part of you which is not in your body. It is connected to your body through your soul.
Your soul is a small part of consciousness projected from your HS, therefore your soul has access to the whole consciousness. If you have a strong desire to become familiar with your HS it will show itself to you sooner or later. But about that later on.
Your HS is you, and you can also say that you are a small part of your higher self. Your HS can have many different life experiences at the same time, so if you meet some person who feels very familiar to you although you met him/her for the first time, that person is likely to be a part of your higher self too.
When you die you become one with your HS, but that does not mean that you lose the sense of who you are now. You will always retain your sense of self, it is just when you connect with your HS you remember all the life experiences you had.
However, when you are born into this physical world your access to the memory of your previous lives is restricted. You can still discover what previous lives you had, but that may defeat the purpose of your current life. This is because you came here to evolve and work on the issues you did not resolve in previous lives, and you will get much bigger benefit by resolving those issues without any clues given.
Your HS has all the knowledge of the humanity, all the memories and much better understanding of who you really are than you yourself! That is, of course, if you are nowhere near the true understanding of the nature of your being. Your HS is also the first one enjoying all the manifestations you create in a non-physical reality.
Your emotions and your higher self
Your HS communicates with you through the emotions you feel. If you feel really bad, your HS is telling you that you are far away from who you really are, and that if you keep being in such mood, you will just create more negative manifestations and get stuck deeper into this unpleasant situation.
Any negative emotion is like a warning from your higher self shouting to you: Change your attitude or you will lose the sense of who you are and the purpose of your life.
When you feel happiness, this is also your higher self expressing the acknowledgement that you became who you truly are and you are in a similar vibration to your higher self. In this state of mind you will experience complete allowing of all your desires to manifest. It just depends how long you are able to hold yourself in this state of mind.
Your emotions and manifestations
When you feel some strong emotion, it always means that you desire something and that you have created the manifestation of that desire in the non-physical reality. Now it is up to you to allow the manifestation of your desires to come into your physical reality.
Emotions can be positive and negative. Even if you feel some strong negative emotion, it still means that you have manifested some desire in a non-physical reality. However by being negative you do not allow it to come into your reality because you are not a vibrational match for it.
Let’s say that you really want to be wealthy, but whenever you see some wealthy person you become extremely upset because you still do not have wealth. So you express a very strong negative emotion, which means that you really want to have that which you still do not possess.
Whenever you really desire something, it always gets created in the non-physical. It is there waiting for you to become a vibrational match for it so that it could come into your reality. But in such situation most people keep being extremely negative about not having something. They view this situation from the position of lack, so instead of allowing the desired thing to come into manifestation, they manifest lack of that desire.
Although this may be not be easy at first, all you should do for the manifestation to come into your reality is keep being positive about it. If you could just feel good about your desire and imagine how it would be like having it, if you could just hold the expectancy/faith/happiness state of mind for some time, you would this way allow all your desires to come into your reality.
I have gone a little bit off topic, but I thought it is important to make this point.
How to meet your higher self
You can get direct messages from your HS through meditation. When you meditate and get deep into meditation, you can ask for your HS to show itself to you. You may not be able to see it the first time you try, but with practice your HS will definitely show itself to you.
Because your higher self is energy, it may appear in different manifestations. It will show itself to you in a way that will be comfortable for your to see. It may look as you or your family member, a kind person or even an animal. It may just come as a voice in your head guiding you and advising you. Whatever you are most comfortable with.
It is really useful to get to know your HS because it can guide you when you are unclear about something or it can answer the questions that you are unsure about.
Higher self can also give you messages through your dreams. When you wake up and you remember the dream, and you think it has meant something, it means that it really did mean something. It was the message from your higher self to you.
Such dreams usually come in symbols, but those symbols are clear because your HS sends symbols that have some meaning to you.
You can also get the messages from your higher self through channelled writing. Some people call this type of activity automatic writing. All you should do is to comfortably sit in some peaceful place with a pen and a blank peace of paper. Then you should ask some question that you are not sure about and wait for the answer. Try not to make up any answer, just become peaceful to allow the answer from your higher self to come forth.
You will know that you are channelling your higher self if you start getting answers in writing that is different from that of yours. You may get some unknown words, or the writing style may be different (more formal or personal) to that of yours.
Conclusion
When you become more connected with your HS, you start understanding who you really are and what you want to get from this life. You finally understand that you are never alone, that you always come with unconditional love and help from your higher self.
When you consciously connect with your HS you stop being scared of death because you understand that there is no death. There is just a life circle, experience after experience in different manifestations of you.
Even without the deep connection to your HS you still receive the guidance of it through your emotions. The guidance through your feelings is the easiest way to understand if you are on or off the track of who you really are.
Therefore when you truly connect with your HS, you become empowered and positive. You start allowing all good things to come into your life experience and that only strengthens your connection with HS.
Further reading: Deep Meditation Experiences, Kundalini Energy, Third Eye Chakra
Go back to the Mind Power section from the Your Higher Self article for more great articles.
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My name is Simona Rich and I help people improve themselves through the articles and products of this website. Although I have found my life's purpose and now I spend my time traveling throughout India and sharing my knowledge, my life used to be completely different. 
