How To Connect With Your Higher Self: 10 Powerful Ways
How to connect with your higher self is about connecting with a part of you. Your higher self is you and you are it. The difference is that you both have different perspectives and see things in unique ways.
You are never separate from your higher self. It is a matter of tuning into it for its guidance and wisdom. It is connecting with another part of you that isn’t physically on the earth plane.
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What Is Your Higher Self?
Your higher self is a part of you. It is you just in a different dimension with a different perspective. Your higher self has more of a birds-eye view of life and sees many things that you may not be able to in your physical form here on earth.
When you come to earth, only a part of you incarnates. Your whole self doesn’t incarnate on earth. A part of you stays in the higher dimensions. You are multidimensional and can be in many places at once. I know that can be difficult for the human mind to understand but it makes sense in the higher dimensions.
This part of you that stays is called your higher self. Your higher self stays to help guide you on your earth life. Since it has a broader perspective, it is a useful guide for you while you are incarnated on earth.
Why Would You Want to Connect with Your Higher Self?
As I mentioned above, your higher self has a broader perspective. It can see things you may not be able to. Think about how much a bird soaring above land can see. They can see more than someone standing on that land. They have a higher perspective than your higher self.
Your higher self can help you in this life. It is always guiding you even if it doesn’t feel that way. When you connect to your higher self and know how to receive its messages, you experience more of what you want. Your higher self knows and see’s paths that you can’t, so it’s worth it to receive information that can help you.
Your higher self also has all its memories and knowledge intact. When you come to earth, the veil is thrown over you and you consciously forget all your previous lives and knowledge from those lives. It is stored within you, so you never completely forget, it’s just harder to access because it’s not in your conscious awareness. But your higher self doesn’t forget, so it has a ton of helpful knowledge. I should say that most people forget, as there are the rare few who have pre-birth memories intact.
How to Connect with Your Higher Self
1. Ask Your Higher Self for Guidance
The very first step to connecting with your higher self is to ask! Simply have a conversation with your higher self and ask it for its help. It will be happy to help! It’s you after all.
After you ask, be sure to pay attention to the messages you receive. They are likely to come in a different form than you expect. Pay attention to your feelings, signs from the universe, and what people around you are saying.
Your higher self may deliver a message coming from a person and what they say to you. Or it may come through a dream, an idea, an animal, or a license plate. There are endless ways your higher self communicates with you.
2. Meditation
When thinking about how to connect with your higher self, meditation has probably already come to your mind. However, did you know that are many forms of meditation? It isn’t just lying in silence.
Here are a few ways that you may meditate:
- Guided meditation
- Silent meditation
- Walking outside in nature
- Painting (or doing any art)
- Baking
- Petting your animals
- Taking a bath (or going by water)
- Channeling
- Automatic writing
- Doing anything that helps you to relax and get out of your head to connect with the higher part of you.
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3. Oracle Cards
Oracle cards are a great way to receive guidance from your higher self. They are a divination tool so that you can work with spirit to get information.
You can ask your higher self for help and receive messages of guidance and clarity with oracle cards. I don’t like them to predict outcomes but to receive guidance because outcomes can always change.
If you are new to oracle cards, this article will get you started: How to Use Oracle Cards for the First Time.
Or if you want more information on how they work, this article explains in much more detail: How Oracle Cards Work & 5 Reasons You Should Try Them.
4. Pay Attention to How You Feel
Your feelings are a big indicator if you and your higher self are on the same page. When you are, you feel good, peaceful, and content. If you are feeling fear or resistance, it means that you and your higher self are not on the same page.
If you feel fear, it doesn’t necessarily mean the decision is wrong. It may just be that your perception of it is different than your higher self’s. Your higher self might think it’s a great idea and you might feel fear because your ego is trying to keep you where you are and where you are “safe.” The resistance isn’t that the path is wrong, just that perhaps your heart and mind are in disagreement. You might be trying to get your ego on board and it’s being stubborn.
This is where it’s extremely important to listen to your intuition and check in with yourself to understand what is going on. Why are you feeling this discord? If you can identify the reasons, then you can figure out if it’s the wrong decision, or if it’s just that your ego doesn’t want you to change.
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5. Pay Attention to the Signs & Symbols Around You
Your higher self is always sending you messages in the form of signs and symbols. Since your higher self can’t directly speak to you right in front of you, it has to get creative. It sends you messages in a way that it thinks you will notice. This will be different for everyone, and your higher self will keep trying new ways if you aren’t receiving the message.
If you want to know more ways that your higher self sends you signs, this article goes into much more detail for you: Signs from The Universe – 15 Magical Ways You Receive Signs.
6. Follow Love Vs Fear
Your higher self never sends you fearful messages as it doesn’t know fear. Fear is something we develop when we come to earth.
Messages from your higher self will feel like excitement and love and not fear.
For example, if you are trying to make a decision, ask yourself, “is this choice coming from love or fear?” Notice which choice is coming from love as that is your higher self speaking to you.
7. Stop Judging Yourself
When connecting with your higher self, it’s really important to not judge yourself for past mistakes or for anything. Your higher self doesn’t judge you and loves you unconditionally.
So, in order to connect with your higher self, you have to be on the same vibration as it. This vibration is one of acceptance and love. When you are here, you more easily receive messages from your higher self.
8. Identify Ego Wants Vs Higher Self Ones
When looking at how to connect with your higher self, it’s important to understand the higher self’s wants and separate them from the ego’s wants. Here’s what I mean. Your ego wants things so that it feels good about itself. While there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that, your higher self wants things to fulfill its soul. It wants things that it can learn and grow from and take with it for the rest of its life and its next lifetimes.
So, when connecting with your higher self, ask the question, “are you coming from my higher self or my ego.” When you identify your higher self’s wants, then you can focus on creating those things. This will bring you closer to your higher self and the journey your soul wants to be on.
Here’s a personal example of mine. When I started putting my work out into the world, I wanted to make money and I also wanted followers. I didn’t realize it at the time, but it was to prove to myself that I was worthy. Once I began doing this work and a TON of inner work, I realized that my soul really wanted to help people. It was about them, not me. I shifted my thinking from, “how can I get followers to prove I’m worthy to how can I help the most people.” Once I shifted to helping more people, then I started to do things that would help the most people and not just feed my own ego of having what other people see as success (which was more followers.) I feel much more connected to my higher self and my purpose doing it this way than before.
9. Journaling or Automatic Writing
Journaling is a great way to connect with your higher self because it can bring the thoughts out of your mind and onto paper. This clears up space for your higher self’s messages to come through.
You may find as you do this, you even begin to do some automatic writing. This means that you are connected to a higher source, and it is passing messages to you that you are writing out. It can bypass your logical mind and involves getting into a heightened state of awareness where you can access this.
There are different degrees of how this may happen. For one person, it may feel like when you are journaling or automatic writing while you are in a flow state. For another person, you may be in such a heightened state of awareness that you don’t even remember journaling. This happens when you get out of the way and allow your higher self to come through.
If you want help connecting with your higher self and discovering more about yourself through journaling, I highly recommend checking out My Discovery Journal. It walks you through the exact process to journal to bring awareness to who you are and what you want. It’s one of the deepest ways and most profound exercises to transform yourself.
10. Connect with Nature
Your higher self is part of nature and so are you. You are all one. Nature is very pure and clear, and divine guidance comes from nature. Nature never tries to manipulate you or get you to do something for its own benefit. So, connecting to it helps you to become a clear channel as well.
Nature has a ton of information for you and when you are out in nature, your higher self can come through in a clear way. Your higher self speaks to you in countless ways and works with nature to deliver you messages.
For example, your higher self might send an animal your way as a message. Pay attention to the traits this animal brings and even look up the animal’s spiritual traits for more information. Nothing is a coincidence, and your higher self is always bringing you messages.
Or if it’s a rainy day, it might be your higher self saying, “it’s a good time to cry and release things you are holding onto.”
Nature and your higher self work in ways that most people don’t notice. But if you pay attention, you will see the connection.
Being out in the sun provides you with light codes that ultimately raise your vibration and expand your consciousness The sun is a living being just as you are, and it will help to merge the connection between you and your higher self.
In Closing: How to Connect with Your Higher Self
Your higher self is always with you and speaking to you. When looking at how to connect with your higher self, it’s important to understand that messages come through in a way that you usually aren’t expecting. Your higher self won’t have a conversation with you like you would another human. It sends you signs and symbols and pops in when you are least expecting it.
With practice and recognition, you will get better at receiving messages from your higher self. You will also get better at trusting that the messages are coming from your higher self and that you aren’t just making them up.
The more you connect with yourself and tune into self-love, the easier it will be for the messages to come through as you are a more open channel.
How does your higher self speak to you? Let me know in the comment below!
~Meghan
