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Higher Self - Channelling - New Age Words Demystified

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Time for some more demystifying. There are so many words that the new age movement ( if there even is such a thing ) loves to throw around in an attempt to make them sound more enlightened or more spiritual. Whenever I write something like “dimension or higher self or channeling” I pause and remind myself of what my intent is. I am directing my writings to the people who haven’t remembered yet.

My sole intention is to nudge others awake. To help them recognize the changes they are experiencing. To help as many as I can in their search for answers to what is happening to them right now. There is no point “singing to the choir” and having nice warm, fuzzy conversations with others who have the same perspective.

Sure it may be easier, but does it help anyone? Strokes the ego maybe. Were not supposed to have egos. Visiting new age forums is nice once in a while. I find that a lot of “spiritually enlightened” people just love to hear themselves go on and on describing all these concepts and wrapping them with terms that sound good. To me, this is what gets new-agers a bad wrap in so-called “normal” society, whatever that is these days.

I feel for new people who are just beginning to ask the questions of what life is about and hoping there’s more to it because this dialogue can only serve to confuse them and possibly make them discount it as mumbo jumbo. (I use “mumbo jumbo” a lot. I must like the sound. Kinda like “google”)

We need to be inclusive and not make out like we know something others don’t. We are all in this together.

Sure this stuff is hard to put into plain talk sometimes. Everyone has different ways of defining or explaining these new age terms. If a person is not open to receive this info and pre-judges it as craziness then it is not the time for them. My posts are for the people that have cracked open the door to see what’s inside.

Higher Self - Middle Self - Lower Self - How Many People Am I?

This one get used a lot. Higher self. It’s like a person is broken into pieces. No it’s not schizophrenia. May sound like it. Lots of native cultures and ancient cultures talk about the different aspects of self that govern different actions and responses. There really is only one self. Another way to describe this is the thinking mind or ego (lower self) and your intuition (higher self) The thinking mind is what we are all accustomed to using. Many have the belief that the mind is all there is. The brain or mind controls everything. Whatever we say or do is from direct command of the mind. Is there another factor that determines our actions?

If you asked a woman about intuition most would say that it is real. Guys, if pressed, would probably agree. Have you ever been in a situation where you did or said something that afterward you thought “Why did i say that or why did I do that? I don’t know what I was thinking.” Or how about being in a situation where you needed to pull someone from a fire or help an accident victim. What happens to the mind? It is not in control. You act on automatic. No thinking.

That is your higher self controlling your actions. Your logical mind is not deciding what to do, it’s your intuition. It’s your spirit. I call it your “god self.” It’s what we all have. It’s what we all use and just don’t recognize it as that. When you use feel or intuition to make a decision on an action that is your higher self running the ship. In times of heightened emotion like fear or love or anger is when our higher selves usually takes over from the mind. That’s where the term “lost my mind” comes from.

People who have truly awakened to the concept that we are spiritual beings experiencing a human lifetime will then harmonize these pieces of self into one. Not by discounting the mind (ego) but to use it as the beautiful tool that it was designed to be, with the understanding that we are not pieces of self with one being more important or higher or lower than the other.

That’s all these terms describing self are. Nothing mysterious. We use all aspects of our self every day. Mind - conscious -sub conscious - lower self - ego. God-self. Buddhists call it the Buddha within. Native Americans call it the higher self. Mind body spirit. Another new age term. It’s all the same thing. Are you enlightened now? Ok so how about this one.

Channelling - Not Your Dead Uncle

No it’s not some people sitting in a circle holding hands speaking to their dead uncle. Channelling is also an everyday, everybody occurrence. New agers love to use this one to really spook the people who might be checking out what this talk of a great shift is all about. A lot say they channel angelic entities. My view is that there are channelling themselves but they don’t have the confidence or feel that people will think the information is not valid if it comes from them.

Another way to describe channelling is speaking from the heart. Open, honest communication without filtering through the brain. The mind can hold a person back from saying things from the fear of being judged as weird or crazy.

The times when we channel are always connected to emotion. Same as the example of the higher self when we are passionate about a subject or in a traumatic situation or even at times of the death of a loved one, Anytime when we are stirred inside we can channel. What it feels like is that the words just come flowing out. No breaks. No hesitations. No thinking. Just our true self expressing our emotions or beliefs. If you listen to someone who is talking at these times you can hear the difference in the sound of their voice. I know I can feel when someone is speaking from their heart. That’s channelling.

So-called channelers have merely mastered the ability to take their thinking, logical mind out of the process. It can be achieved by deep breathing. When someone is breathing deeply their consciousness is on the breath. Try it. Try to think about things when you are intentionally breathing deeply. Your full attention is on your breathing. Then without the mind at rest the words can flow freely. This is just a learned process. My main point is that we all do it. The difference is that it happens for most only at times of high emotion.

Channelling is not just talking. People channel when they are doing things they are passionate about. Artists. Singers. Writers. Poets. Even athletes when they are in the “zone.” They are not thinking they are just letting it flow out. I wrote a post about Paul Potts, the winner of Britain’s Got Talent last year. Paul Potts was channelling. He is such a shy guy with no self-confidence that if he didn’t channel his god-self than the sounds that came out of him would have not been possible. Of course no one would call it channelling (except me) but that is what channelling is. Free, open, unobstructed flow of words or actions done from the heart not the head.

When I blasted awake in 2000, I remember it was non stop channelling for me. From the time I woke up in the morning to the time I went to bed I could be pouring out concepts of love, compassion, unity, beauty, god, perfection while with my mind I was thinking about things I had to get at the grocery store. It was a weird feeling but also an awesome one. After about 6 months it slowed down but not till after almost everyone I had known had written me off as crazy. That was okay because I wasn’t the same person they had known anyway.

That’s two of the most used and misunderstood terms in new age lingo. I don’t know if these explanations brought them down to easier to relate to concepts or not. I was going to get into the word “dimensions” but this post is long enough.

So now everyone go and channel your higher self.

Wooo! Sounds spooky huh?

Photos courtesy of FeelFreeTravel
Lee Carroll from Kryon.com - defintion of channelling

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