Question: I’m enjoying your blog and learning how to channel my higher self, but how do I know if I’m really in contact with my higher self or with an entity masquerading as my higher self?
Answer: It takes time, practice, and discernment to know when you’re in contact with your higher self or just your imagination, or even another entity masquerading, as you say, as your higher self. Until you have a solid grasp on your higher self’s energy and can instantly connect with and recognize it, you’re going to have to go through a process to ensure you’re making a proper connection. Here are some ways you can make sure you’re connecting with your higher self and not somebody else. The same is true for your spirit guides as well.
Raise your vibration
What state are you in? Are you feeling loved, blessed, joyful, and grateful? Good. That’s where you want to be ideally when you commune with your higher self. If you’re feeling fear, anxiety, anger, sadness, shame or guilt, it’s going to be harder to reach the frequency you need to be on to accurately connect with and hear your higher self communicating with you. You don’t want to end up on a low frequency. So before you begin, raise your vibration. Watch a funny movie, tell someone you love them, give a homeless guy some money, go hug your kids, etc. You don’t have to stay in this state forever, just get there before you connect.
Open your chakras
I really can’t stress enough how important it is to get your energetic body pumping and buzzing with balanced chakral energy. Without opening your chakras, talking to your higher self is going to be like turning on a radio but pressing the mute button, and wondering why you can’t hear anything. Boost the volume. Open and spin your chakras from your root to your crown. Feel the energy in those areas. You can still connect with your higher self without opening your chakras, but it’s much harder and you have to listen that much more intently. Give yourself a fighting chance and open those suckers up.
Find your sacred space
Next you want to create a sacred space where you and your higher self can meet without interruption. In your mind, imagine going up into space either by climbing a long staircase, going up an escalator, flying, or taking a spaceship. Doesn’t matter, just feel yourself climbing, going up as high as you can. I like to walk up a staircase and breathe deeply while doing so. Count while you climb. When you feel like you’re high enough (this is you raising your frequency), create a space where you and your higher self can be alone. It could be a garden, a white room, a living room, a temple, a cloud, etc. Just enclose it in protective white light and indicate to all who are around that this is a private space for just you and your higher self (or guides).
Practice communicating
Now ask your higher self to come to you in this sacred, private space. Your higher self will probably appear to look like you but that’s not always the case. They are just energy – a frequency – and will present to you in a way that will make you most comfortable. Start with the small stuff. Offer your higher self a cookie and some tea, make small talk about the weather, just get a feel for each other. Then ask your higher self what he or she most wants you to know. Or ask him or her questions. Have a conversation. Try not to filter or evaluate the conversation while you’re having it. Just have it. You can always run it past your logic later. The longer you talk the stronger the communication will become. If you start questioning if you’re really talking to your higher self it might knock you out of this wonderful vibrational state you’ve gotten yourself into; it’s akin to accidentally pulling out the plug on your radio. Connection over. So just stay with it until you’ve got the information you want.
When you’re done communicating, thank your higher self, give him or her some love, and exit the sacred space. Go back down into your body and close your chakras to a nice comfortable level.
Check the results
If you connected with something masquerading as your higher self you’re going to get information that will just feel wrong. Entities who try to screw with you are seeking to put you in a state of fear so they can feed off of you. They’ll tell you what to do, how to do it, when to do it and whom to do it with. They will try to strip you of your power.
If you’re really communicating with your higher self you’ll get encouragement and advice, and you’ll be challenged to make your own decisions. You’ll also feel like you’re talking to your true self. There will be love, not judgment. There will be compassion and empathy, not anger.
See what happens when you commune with your higher self. If you like the results and are feeling more and more empowered, you’re on the right track.
Keep going back
Once you’ve connected with your higher self’s energy, it will be easier to find it again. Keep going to that sacred space. There will also come a point where you can access your higher self’s energy even if you’re feeling sad or scared because you’ll know what he or she feels like and can discern their true energy from others masquerading as your higher self. You’ll get to a point where you can talk to your higher self in line at the grocery store, on a date, or on the phone with your mother.
Your higher self wants to be known to you. He or she is there to help guide you and keep you on track. Your higher self is your heart, mind, and moral compass. Get to know him or her and you’ll know yourself much better.
Here’s to the beginning of a beautiful, empowering relationship!
