How much do you really trust your Higher Self?
Nothing in this lifetime happens without conscious participation. Our Spirit may guide us, but it’s up to our conscious minds whether to act on guidance or to ignore it completely. Our conscious mind is still the navigator of the third-dimensional plane. We put the impulses from our Higher Self into workable, practical application in this physical world. Without the cooperation of our third-dimensional aspect – our mind, our ego – our Higher Self is unable to evolve itself within this incarnation.
What we really need is a partnership with our Higher Self. It is a partnership that must be founded on deep and radical trust, because our egoic mind will never be able to truly understand how our Higher Self operates. Our Higher Self has a much broader perspective than our little linear mind can encompass. Our Higher Self holds our lesson plan for this lifetime. It is the reason we are incarnated in the first place. And so, because we have to utterly trust this wiser aspect of ourselves, developing this partnership feels like surrender. We have to place our faith into an invisible partner that we don’t fully understand, and trust that all is in our highest good.
But think about this. Our Higher Self has to offer our ego that same deep and radical trust. Our Higher Self cannot take action. It cannot make choices. It can nudge us and guide us and hand us painful lessons, but it cannot “make us” do anything. Imagine being pure Spirit, coming into a human body. Over the next ten to twenty years, what is mostly fostered is our physical, mental, and emotional aspect until we have practically forgotten our initial identity as a spiritual being. Through it all, our Higher Self has to trust that we will remember why we came here to begin with. Our Higher Self has to “surrender” to its own physicality. And it does.
By creating an unconditionally trusting partnership with our Higher Self, we begin re-integrating that which was never separate from us to begin with. Our physical body, our emotions and our mind – none of these would exist without our Higher Self, which connects us to the vital life force we receive from Source. Our Higher Self is our Spirit, our “inspiration” that literally breathes life into our Being. Without a Soul, we die. How can we not trust the very thing that gives us life?
Our Higher Self is also our body, our mind, our emotions. It IS us. It is also the wisest part of who we are. Are we willing to trust its wisdom, its guidance? Or are we going to ignore it, to argue with it because we don’t understand it, to question it because we’re uncertain of the outcome?
Can we be as trusting in our Higher Self as our Higher Self is trusting in its egoic aspect? What would that be like?
Blessings,
Andrea
Filed under: How To Develop Your Intuition • Spiritual Development
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Hi Andrea, you touch on some very interesting points here.
If I were to describe what I do when I surrender to the wisdom and guidance of my Self Soul Spirit, it would go something like this: daily do I place my trust in those impulses that guide me on my true path and purpose for my own good and for the good of all beings.
I’m reluctant to use the concepts of higher and highest to describe my spiritual journey as they suggest a dual and divisive reality. On the other hand, they do convey a desirable preference to connect with divinity, that is to say, with the more enlightened aspects of our nature as spiritual beings having a human experience.
Christopher
I definitely see it as a partnership! However, after years of developing a more right-brained way of approaching life, it takes some rewiring work to now do things differently. I am now hoping to allow more of the voice of my Higher Self to come through. Like you said, it’s not one over the other. It’s every bit a harmonious co-operation!! We learn to trust and give each part of ourselves their due respect.
I appreciate how my higher self has loving patience for the other parts of me. When I get an intuitive hit from my intuition sometimes I will just go with it and take action and sometimes I’ll pause and let my mind weigh in with it’s questions and uncertainties. And when my intuition and mind have a kind of dialogue in which my mind is free to state its fears (that’s usually what it wants to bring up) my intuitive part is totally accepting and reminds me that things always will work out no matter what happens. And experiencing the results of what happens when I take my higher self’s advice does lead the other parts of me to be more and more trusting. It is just a process I suppose towards living more and more from this higher, more loving and fearless perspective.
I believe that we do learn to trust our higher selves, but that it is a matter of belief that it is worthwhile enough to keep trying to listen and that we give it time. I think that intuition, unless encouraged from a very young age, must be given time to develop rather than expecting those born into western culture to just jump in and trust.
The trust in intuition, our wise nature, builds over time as we become more familiar with how intuition feels, what and how guidance is given, and the experiences of having that guidance “work outâ€. In our western culture it is hard to relinquish control – especially to something that does not always “make sense†to our rational, egoic minds. Yikes! There might then be chaos! How would we cope? And yet, as we gain more experience with intuition, we begin to see that there is more sense than we can even imagine.
And in the beginning of this journey of trusting our higher selves, it is soooo hard to “hearâ€, to discern – what is real intuition vs. what am I just making up? To discern the voice of ego from the voice of divinity. But once we learn to trust in our inner voice – ever so slightly – and to then to “knowâ€, deep within, that there is more to this path than we could’ve guessed in our wildest dreams – then the floodgates open. From a wee trickle while we try too hard to “hear” our very subtle inner voice, to acceptance and free-flow.
The best way I learned to trust was to keep track of the small things – to prove to myself that it’s really there and it really works. I then noticed that I get this info all the time, which progressed to trusting it that it actually WORKS all the time, that it’s the right info at the right time.
So, if we keep giving our[higher]selves a chance – in this dimension, it is only a matter of time.
“Our Higher Self has a much broader perspective than our little linear mind can encompass. Our Higher Self holds our lesson plan for this lifetime. It is the reason we are incarnated in the first place.”
After reading just these three lines we’d have to be nuts not to trust our higher self. Yet for me, it often takes a visit to you blog to remember that I’ve got a very wise and loving uncle who only wants my best. Andrea, thanks for the enlightened service you provide. I’m grateful to know you.
Keena said, “I then noticed that I get this info all the time.” Finding this article was, for me, the perfect reminder of that.
I’m currently working with my Higher Self with the intent to release something major from my subconscious patterns. I wrote a letter to my Higher Self … that my subconscious seems to be fighting against with all its worth, intensifying symptoms and leaving me exhausted.
Last night while trying to sleep, it struck me that I don’t trust my Higher Self nearly as much as I’d like to. I searched around inside and found some old images that shocked me, similar to what I’ve believed about God:
– My Higher Self is distant and impartial to my predicament
– My Higher Self doesn’t hear me
and/or
– My Higher Self doesn’t understand my clumsy attempts to communicate
The next day I found Andrea’s article and without setting out to look for it. The very first sentence, “How much do you really trust your Higher Self?” confirmed I was on the right track in uncovering this attitude or belief system inside of me. I then remembered that I get lots of pointers and messages like this … so I am being heard.
Now I just need to work on really feeling that, instead of needing proof (the “acceptance and free-flow” that Keena spoke of). I want to make it more than just a mental concept that my Higher Self wants that “deep and radical” two-way trust. Andrea’s article reminds me that the trust is blocked from my side, not the other way ’round.
Hi
I find it very interesting your concept of the Higher Self trusting us. I must ponder this.
For me it is very difficult to trust my Higher Self or, for that matter, trust myself that I am actually in touch with my Higher Self.
Juliet