| What does it mean to live from your higher self? The | | | | everything you do. |
| idea of the higher self is an age old spiritual | | | | The beliefs that come with separating your spiritual life |
| understanding and it is one of the universal beliefs | | | | from your everyday life, is that you are primarily a |
| present in virtually every religion and tradition from the | | | | person with a soul or a spirit. The great insight |
| beginning of time. When primitive man stared up at the | | | | however is that you are not a body with a soul, but |
| night sky, transfixed by the moon and stars he realized | | | | that you are a soul with a body. Who you really are, is |
| that there is something bigger than himself and that | | | | not your body or your mind, but your spirit - that |
| there is a universal intelligence behind life and creation. | | | | invisible part deep down inside. Your body is nothing |
| Even though all this seemed much beyond himself, | | | | but a suit you have to wear in order to function in this |
| primitive man realized his intricate connection to this life | | | | dimension of life. |
| force - always seeking ways to connect to it and to | | | | It's so easy to loose perspective and forget your |
| strengthen his relationship to That which he felt an | | | | higher self in the pursuits of everyday life. Living from |
| indescribable connection to. | | | | your higher self means that you are consciously living |
| Much has changed since then, yet our spiritual ideal | | | | a spiritual life. Underneath the veil of physicality there is |
| remains the same. We want to know what's beyond | | | | an infiniteness to life and there is a bigger picture. The |
| ourselves and want to know what or who is behind it | | | | majority of people are consumed by their sensory |
| all. Where does life come from, where are we going | | | | perceptions of life; by facts and analytical thinking. |
| and why are we here? One of the great challenges | | | | Underneath it all there is an invisible force that is the |
| we face in modern living is finding a spiritual path | | | | real driving force behind life. |
| amidst the complexities of life. It seems like we are | | | | Living from your higher self starts with the spiritual |
| drowning in possibilities and options and like a dog | | | | realization that you are not your body or your mind or |
| chasing it's own tail, we are chasing ways to escape it | | | | your personality, but that you are your spirit. Through |
| all. More money, more success, more love, more | | | | conscious growth and raising your spiritual awareness |
| happiness, greater influence...The irony is that we don't | | | | you can start to strengthen your spiritual connection. |
| need more, but less because piling on more and more | | | | As you consciously live with the awareness of your |
| will only remove us further from a sense of inner | | | | higher self you will be able to transcend many of the |
| peace. | | | | trivialities of life and become self reliant. Divine guidance |
| The Transcendentalists believed that living an authentic | | | | is available to you at all time. You simply have to look |
| life was to live close to your Source (God) and that | | | | deep within yourself. You will become more able in |
| simplicity was the path to connecting and knowing | | | | integrating your life and all the different aspects of the |
| God. In our modern life we tend to categorize | | | | life experience when you realize that all of life is |
| everything. We have a work life, a love life, a personal | | | | spiritual. |
| life and worse of all a 'spiritual life'. When we separate | | | | There is an invisible, intangible yet very real part of you |
| all the different aspects of ourselves what we do is to | | | | that is the real You. Remind yourself of this constantly |
| deny ourselves the synergy that comes from being a | | | | and know that it is your higher self that is eternally |
| totally integrated person. To separate spirituality from | | | | connected to God. Through your higher self you have |
| your everyday life is to deny yourself the divine | | | | divine guidance available to you, you simply have to |
| guidance that is available to you at all times and in | | | | place your trust in it. |