14 Ways To Connect to Your Higher Self

14 Ways
To Connect to Your Higher Self


Your Higher Self is your Soul self. It is the ancient, infinitely wise part of you that was
directly created from Divine Source. Your Higher Self is not limited to this present
incarnation. It has access to all your lifetimes, past, present and future. It spans dimensions,
time and space. Your Higher Self is pure Spirit. It is the source of your intuitive
knowledge and guidance. It is your true Self.
The work of Soul Realignment™ is dedicated to assisting you in connecting to this
powerful resource. Your Higher Self longs to express its gifts and purpose into this
physical incarnation. It is why you are here.
The following simple spiritual practices will assist you in connecting to your Higher
Self on a daily basis. Whether you choose to do these practices for one day, for a week,
or for months to come, each will serve you in its own way so that you may begin to fully
align with your highest path and purpose for this lifetime.


1. Connect to Light
Spend five or ten minutes gazing into the light of a candle. While you do this, breathe in through your nose and out
through your mouth. Because the mind will tend to wander during this exercise, count each breath you take. Try not to
lose count. This exercise is simple, but not necessarily easy! Connecting in this way to a natural light source connects us
to the Divine Light of our Higher Self.

2. Open Your Heart
Send a blessing to someone you love. Just visualize placing the energy of love,
healing or simple good will into a white ball of light. Send that white ball of light
to the person you love, and imagine them being showered with the blessing energy
you sent. Then use the same technique to send a blessing to someone you know,
perhaps someone you are not very close to. Next, send a blessing to someone who
has angered you. Finally, send a blessing to yourself. This practice expands your
heart and awakens compassion, and allows you to connect to the loving energy of
your Higher Self.

3. Smiling Meditation
Close your eyes and take a single big breath. Smile. Even if you don’t feel like smiling - especially if you
don’t feel like smiling! Focus for a minute or two on the sensation of smiling. Notice what happens to your
face, to your emotions, to the space in your heart. Meditate on your smile.
This may feel forced and unnatural at first, especially if you are agitated or stressed. However, you’ll find
that it’s hard to meditate on a smile without that smile becoming genuine. If nothing else, you’ll smile or
even laugh at yourself because here you are, sitting with your eyes closed and smiling foolishly. Reconnect
to the child-like joy that your Higher Self upholds for you at all times.

4. Mirror Gazing
This exercise allows you to connect to your true Self
with loving acceptance. Sit in front of a mirror, or hold
a hand mirror in front of your face. Look into your own
eyes without averting your gaze. Keep gazing into your
own eyes for at least five minutes. You will find that your
features become blurry in the mirror, that the importance
of your physicality melts away, and you are left with a
connection to your true essence, your Higher Self.

5. Take Your Own
Advice
Note every piece of advice you give today, every perspective
and opinion you offer. At the end of the day, write down the
essence of what you’ve been communicating to others. Apply
your counsel to yourself. Sometimes our Higher Self talks
through us to others – but the message is meant for us as much
as it is meant for those to whom we offer our counsel.

6. Stop The Noise
Go on a “media fast” for a few hours each week.
Turn off the phones, the blackberries, TV, stop
surfing the Internet, listening to the radio, or reading
the newspaper. Stop all information input, so
that your inner wisdom has a chance to be heard.
Use the silence to ask yourself a question. Engage
in some creative activity, and you may recognize the
answer that comes from within.

7. Witness Your
Wisdom
Imagine yourself when you were only ten or
eleven years old. Now write a letter to the
child that you were. What do you know now
that you wish you had known then? If you
had the ability to give the child you once were
a little instruction manual for life, what would
you want it to say? Write down everything
that you think is important for the ten-yearold
you to know. When you are finished, put
everything you’ve written away for twentyfour
hours. The next day, read the instruction
manual. It contains the wisdom that has
come to you from your Higher Self. Allow
yourself to soak up all that you have learned
in this lifetime.

8. Hand It
Over by Practitioner Anna Conlan
This spiritual practice is for those times when you feel overcome
by negative emotions or problems, such as desperation or sadness.
Imagine a beautiful angel with you, its arms around you, ready
to take away some of that negativity you cannot handle. Visualize
the angelic presence any way you like - as a conventional angel
or cherub, as a bright light or an angel with a human appearance.
Throw the negative energy you are feeling into a bag and give it to
the angel. Watch the angel take the bag back to Divine Source, to
be transformed into Divine Love which is given back to you via the
angel. Feel the sense of love when this energy is given back to you.

9. Tune In To Your
Desired Outcome
by Practitioner Joann Miller
I allow ten to fifteen minutes every day to
focus on and “feel” exactly how I want my reality
to manifest. Then I simply go about my
day practicing the art of keeping thoughts
that I desire in my mind versus thoughts of
scenarios that I do not want in my life.

10. Practice Gratitude
by Practitioner Mary Riposo
Each morning before I get out of bed, I say: “Dear God, thank
you for another beautiful day on planet Earth.” Then, as I go
through my day, I silently bless each interaction I have with
everybody I come in contact with, whether in person, over the
phone, or via email, and whether it feels positive or negative in the
moment. At the end of the day, before I fall asleep, I say: “Dear
God, thank you for all of the experiences of this day.
Please help me to retain all the learning from those experiences,
and to release any negativity associated with them.” Then I say
“thank you” three times.

11. Walking
Meditation
The next time you go for a walk, allow your gaze to drift
to the ground right in front of you. Watch your feet as
you walk, bringing your attention to each step as you take
it. We’re so often concerned with where we are going and
the goals we want to reach that we are not present to the
actions that allow us to get there. Guidance from the
spiritual plane is only available in the present moment.
Mindful walking – focusing only on what is immediately
in front of you – allows you to be open to receive inspiration
and guidance from your Higher Self.

12. Acknowledge
Your
Divinity
by Practitioner Michelle Lee
When I feel disconnected from my Higher Self I
first remind myself that I am one with my Higher
Self, that I AM my Higher Self and all that this involves.
Our Higher Self is God, with all the properties
of God. Similarly, just one drop of an ocean
has all of the properties within itself as the entire
ocean. Those properties of God and our Higher
Self are Love, Light, Truth, Power and Abundance,
and because they are a part of my Higher Self they
are a part of me.
When I feel disconnected I remind myself that the
perceived disconnect is an illusion. Then I take
just a moment to breathe, and if it is practical I
may close my eyes. I visualize my Higher Self as
a spark of light just behind my solar plexus or at
the third chakra. And as I focus on it, it begins
to grow and expand and fill every cell, muscle and
fiber of my body. As it fills my body I realize that
I am the presence of Love, Light, Truth, Power
and Abundance. I begin to feel lighter and more
powerful. I take this Light and Power with me into
every situation knowing that I AM the presence of
God and that I can bring Light to every situation
and experience.

13. Exercise Your Mind’s Eye
by Practitioner Anna Conlan
Spirit uses the mind’s eye as a vehicle for sending us messages. This exercise is
drawn from William Hewitt’s book ‘Psychic development for Beginners’ and is
an excellent one to practice consciously using and manipulating images in your
mind’s eye.
Imagine you are holding seven balloons on strings, each one corresponding to
one of the seven colours of the chakras - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet,
indigo. Let go of the balloons, one by one, starting with the red balloon and
watch the balloons one by one fly off into the sky, until they disappear from your
mind’s eye. This exercise will be difficult to do at first, if you are not used to using
your visual imagination.

14. Connect to Heaven and Earth
by Practitioner Nancy Leilah Ward
When I need to reconnect to Spirit, I take a moment to sit quietly and focus on my heart. When
I do this, I feel innocence there – it feels sweet and childlike. I sit with that feeling and allow it
to spread like an elixir through my being. If I have time, I go back to my heart and spin my heart
chakra clockwise. I send my attention from my heart down into the Earth, connecting with her energy,
and I draw Earth energy up, circulating it through my chakras. When I get to my crown chakra
I open it up – it fans upward and outward. I then call in Spirit, the energy of the Universe. I draw
the Spirit energy from the Universe down, circulating it through my chakras, down into the earth.
I fill my entire body with the energies of Earth and Spirit, or Heaven and Earth. I like to think of
this as Mother Father God loving each other inside of me. I feel energy connecting me to Spirit
and to Earth. I send the energies out through my heart and into my aura. I affirm that I am a divine
spark of the Creator. The energy goes out from my heart, creating a path which I fill with the feeling
tone of what I want to bring into my life.

Last Edited by riddler on 08/14/2010 11:14 AM