What is a higher self and how do you identify it

[Tayesin]

Hi,
The higher-self is YOU.  It is the great and powerful spirit that you are.  Not to be confused with the smaller physical self you seem to be.  Nor the slightly larger astral body you use when Ap'ing.

People who come into contact with their higher-self usually perceive it as a Guide initially.  I like to describe it as being the Primary Guide, again, not to be confused with the helper guides that we all speak about when using the term Guides.

It is a state of awareness that we are and always have been, even though we are led to believe that we are small souls.  Back in 1977 my Teacher explained to me that our Overself/Higher-self is a massive thing and it can have more than one incarnation on the Earth at one time, depending on what You are working on here.  She drew a picture of a puppet master working little puppets (earth incarnates)on the Stage of Life.

I tend to see that the huge spirit we are (the higher-self) is very ancient, having been around obtaining experience whenever a new 'place' comes online for having life experiences.  For instance, when Earth came online for incarnating to, we all volunteered to come here for it's unique experiences.  And we shall stay here until we are 'ascended' from this world, then on we go to the next available place.

Imagine that your physical body represents your higher-self and you want to incarnate into a world.  Once you have chosen all your variables and made firm arrangements for your itinery, you simply reach out with your 'finger' and rest it gently upon the desk in front of you.  Now you have incarnated into the world of 'Desk'.

Your finger is now the contact patch you have in the world.  This is an analogy for your physical body, which is only the contact patch the great spirit you are has in this world.  In this way it is easier to see the relativity of the higher-self to the 'soul' you seem to be here now.  So, your body is the tiniest portion of the Great Soul you are, the rest of you lays hidden from view until you are ready to connect and re-experience the memories of what and who you really are.

Sorry for this being a little long, but it is a huge topic that is not easily explained in the written word !  I hope this is some help to you.

Love Always.[]

[Nick]

Hi need,

This is an excellent topic, and I thought it would be better suited to our Welcome to Spiritual Development forum. I hope you don't mind, otherwise please pm me and we'll work something out. []

By the way, Tayesin wrote a great description, in my opinion. [^]


All the best,

[need]

Thanks Nick.

Thank-you Tayesin. Why is there so much confusion on the form of Higher Self some authors, experience it as a human being in their mind,like shirley maclaine, others explain it as images in the mind.

How can a person get in touch with their higher self.

[joya250]

How I think I've been able to connect more with my higher self:

Empty your mind / alter your conciousness / expand perception.  Time slows down.     You connect with that stillness.  Once you've truly connected you cannot speed up again, but sink into the relaxed order of energy flow.  It stays empty only momentarily, but enough so that you embody it. ...When it fills up again it fill us with love as the Truth of this world.   The ego is then a tool for the expression of the true essence of your Higher Self.

joya

[Jon_88]

The Higher self is you thinking outside the "box" ,you identify it by thinking outside the box. Box can both be your head and/or your current state of mind. Whatever you feel is most limiting.

I do not think i yet become my "higher" self(atleast not highest) ,but i think im identifying it. I think it is a state.
But remember it is also a symbol on your "better" self ,no one can define "better" other than you.

So the "journey" is to think outside the "box" until you get some bearings ,and achives a state based on the symbol. This hopefully give better meaning to that symbol and a new similar "journey" begins . Journey is every action you take to understand and become more like the higher(=better=symbol)self.

[galacticsurfer]

I have been reading a brochure that came with my Holosync meditation CDs the other day and he describes us as being an open energy system that assimilates new information/energy and goes to a higher state of existence continually as we learn and reorganize(according to  Ilya Prigogine's nobel prize winning theory on open systems). For example we are not really ultimately physical as all our cells change every seven years. We must therefore be pure consciousness as nothing else exists in a living being consistently over the entire lifecycle. We are each individually an open living and constantly changing system.

Basically when we mistake our physical body for our true self that is the easiest and dumbest mistake. After that level we mistake our feelings and attitudes for our true self. this is the next mistake. Somehow we have to get past all that and find who we really are. This is somes state of Nirvana, a witness of everything where everything stops and it is just light. Of course to enjoy this level we have to get around all our mind games which are illusions based on perceptions based on the functions of the physical body( thought and visual, auditory, touch, feeling illusions).

If you get to this level of the game you have won the grand prize and get to play God in the next round of universal incarnation which happens every zig trillionen years or so.[8D]

[wantsumrice]

Hey Need,

You are always connected to your own higher self, it's all a matter of being aware of it.  There are too many ways of becoming aware of it, and some good ones have been mentioned here already.  

One's own higher self will always appear in a state that suits the person.  Meaning it will be different for everyone because it is such a personal ordeal.  

Good luck,
~ivan

[majour ka]

Hey Need, there are some good answers here, I recently posted a thread on this titled the key to everything, incase it helps. M.Ka

[need]

Does anyone know what a higher self is and how to identify it?
Is it a figure or a state.