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"higher self," is the energy that radiates out of your core life force. We have
all had at least fleeting experiences of connection with our self. When you connect,
"everything feels right" and integrated for a moment. It could be called your
place of or creativity. It is also your "inner healer."
The inner healer is an expression I first heard used by Stanislav
Grof to help people become comfortable with the intuitive part of themselves which
knows what needs to be healed next. We all have an inner healer; the more you
trust it, the better it works. In other words, don't bring any preconceived ideas
into the process. Let yourself be surprised.
 The
higher self experience transcends or goes beyond personal individual identity
and meaning; it includes purpose, meaning, values, and unification with universal
principles. When you experience your higher self, your sense of self expands.
This is when you know that you are larger than your feelings and present conditions.
Scientist, educator and healer Barbara Ann Brennan illuminates
this view of the higher self in her text, Light Emerging.
"Wherever there is peace, joy, and fulfillment in your life,
that is where your higher self has expressed itself through the creative principal.
If you wonder what is meant by 'who you really are' or your 'true self' look to
these areas of your life. They are an expression of your true self."
Your higher self, your true self, your core energy, your essence,
or : all are synonymous. What many of us are recovering from, in the larger view,
are energy blockages and unconscious defense reflexes that inhibit our access
to this core or higher self.
 As
you look inward, without judgement, your higher self or essence will open to you.
As the inspiring author A.H. Almaas writes, "This is the basic law of the heart."
It is the nature of the higher self to want to be known. Once it has been recognized
it will lead you to other ways in which you can know it and be it. From this point
on, your progress on the path seems to quicken, and the hurdles that lie before
you are less riddled with the thorns and barbed wire of your resistance. From
your higher self, you begin to accept the lessons that present themselves, and
to understand the ways in which each of us creates our own curriculum. To put
it another way, once you have drunk from the well of higher self, or essence,
you know the drink that will quench you. Not only do you become more willing to
do what you must to find that hidden essence, it is more willing to be found.
From identifying my "observer self," that part of me that is the
perceiver of all that I am, do, think, and feel, I have begun to recognize the
location of my higher self. When I realized that I cannot be what I perceive,
then I realized that I must be the perceiver, or self. Emotionally flat
at first, this observer-self gradually became more and more infused with energy
and pristine awareness. It has since demonstrated itself to be my evolution, joy,
and purposeful being.
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