The Higher Self

"Earth my body, Water my blood, Air my breath, and Fire my Spirit!”. A Native American Spiritual chant.

The first and most fundamental step on the path to spiritual knowledge is the discovery that you are not only your personality and physical body. You also have a Soul, which is the most important part of you! From birth until death, your Soul seeks to manifest itself through your personality using your physical body as a means of expression. After the death of your physical body your Soul will continue on its journey.Man is a triune being having three aspects to his nature. These three aspects are:

1. The physical body and personality or conscious self (the subconscious mind is also considered a part of this aspect of man’s nature with DNA coding being the subconscious mind of every cell);

2. The higher self or what is sometimes called the super-conscious mind and

3. The Soul.

The job of the Higher self is to hold a clear blueprint of how the Soul comes into relationship with the personality or conscious self. Your Higher self, your conscious self and your Soul form a triangle. This blueprint, held by the Higher self, holds the key to the perfect integration of your Soul with your personality and conscious self. This is what is known as the mystical marriage. Your sub-conscious mind is like the hard drive on a computer. It only holds information that has been programmed into it. All experiences both real and those that are strongly imagined are stored in the subconscious mind. These impressions lie beneath the surface of our conscious awareness and influence all of our decision making. Sub-conscious impressions are responsible for our survival as they contain the collective instinctual drive of the human psyche. The sub-conscious mind’s reference however, lies only in the past. Since the sub-conscious mind does not have access to events of the future, as its reference lies only in the past, our intuitive feelings, promptings and emotional nudges must surface from some other source. This other source is what is known as the super conscious mind or Higher self. That aspect of man’s nature, holding the blueprint of the Soul’s perfect integration with the personality or conscious self. When we are truly in tune with and listening to the subtle whisperings of our intuition we are in touch with and listening to the Higher Self. The Higher self carries with it a perfect picture or blueprint of the most potential for personal growth offered to us during our lifetime. When we align our personality with this blueprint held by the Higher self, we are aligning to the Soul purpose of this lifetime. When the personality or conscious self is in danger of interfering with the life purpose of the Soul it is guided by the Higher self and nudged back on track. What we have to make sure of, is that we are listening!