Relationships in the New Age is an eight week series.

• Part 1: Introduction to relationships in the new age
• Part II: Relationships as mirrors
• Part III: The Cooperative Love of Karma
• Part IV: Soul relationships
• Part V: Partnering with your Higher Self
• Part VI: Conscious, co-creative relationships
• Part VII: Attracting relationships
• Part VIII: Assisting others

Part V : Partnering with your higher self

by Michael Jorgensen

My experience

As a child growing up in a Christian household I learned from my parents and church that God was something outside of me, and the core of my being is sinful. Therefore seeking God within was heresy. I was told that channeling, guides, and other esoteric forms of communion attracted evil and Satan, which scared me away from these things for many years. I also grew up with an older sister who is naturally very psychic and had many "supernatural" experiences, including forces she described as evil. Her stories reinforced the fear I felt at trusting and developing my intuitive inner self.

I held the Christian conception of the world until I was 28 years old when a "divine companion" relationship (see last month's article "Soul Relationships") ended, along with what I believed was my purpose in life — my career as an artist. These losses created a spiritual crisis for me, and resolving it required me to restructure my beliefs about God and spirituality. With the encouragement of a counselor, I began to explore my spiritual inner self and to trust and have faith in my subjectivities. I developed a relationship with the God within. The more I learned to trust my feelings, thoughts and perceptions and honor them, the more open I felt emotionally and physically. As a result, I had a spontaneous experience that I couldn't deny, of channeling an energy through my body. The energy left me feeling spiritually high and extraordinarily wonderful. It triggered my investigation of channeling, connecting with my Higher Self and seeking inner guidance.

It must be my karma to not be open to negative energies, because I have never experienced evil as my sister has. This may also be due to my core belief that it does not exist. Evil, I believe, only has power if I fear it. And in developing my connection to my higher self I always seek that which is of highest vibration and love.

There are many ways to connect with our inner, higher self, and numerous books on this topic. I began with calling upon my highest guide in meditation. I have facilitated other people to connect with their higher selves since then, and what is fascinating is the common experience each has had. They and myself have perceived contact with the higher self as a bright white light inside the mind's eye, which feels warm. I also experience it as a very high vibration, and the more I surrender to this light, the greater experience of unconditional love I feel.

When asking my higher self for guidance, I feel a response as a thought form in my head that I attempt to translate into words. I choose each word carefully, testing it for its accuracy and truth, following my inner guidance as to how close I am to the source message. Over time I have also received words and images. I learned early in the process how desire for something can taint the message I receive — I get the guidance I want to hear, and not the truth. Since then I remain as unattached to the message and outcome as possible, trusting in the perfect unfolding of the universe. I also avoid asking questions of a predictive nature — I have come to believe that all that happens is for my highest spiritual good. Because I have the resources and power to deal with whatever my future holds, I have no need to know my future. I live in the present and ask questions of a spiritual nature.

After regularly connecting with my higher self through meditations, I learned to recognize the frequency and vibration of my higher self and now, when I call for contact, I attempt to make my energy resonate in the same frequency. And though I received a name for my guide — Arianna — I know it is only a metaphor of song (aria + feminine energy) standing in for its energy vibrational signature.

The primary purpose of my higher self guidance has been to give me insight into life experiences and heal false core beliefs. My higher self has methodically directed my healing and encouraged me to live in a greater state of trust, peace, joy and love. Through the process of healing, my higher self has made it possible for me to surrender more fully to my divinity and the divinity of the universe. I have been shown fresh paths where I have discovered new joys, passions and purposes for my life. The relationship I have with my inner self leads me to a greater wholeness and purpose.

The new energies assist in integrating our divinity

Since the new energies of January 2000, I have noticed a profound difference in the connection with my higher self. The higher vibration of earth has made my connection clearer — as though the veil between me and my higher self is thinner. It has become less necessary for me to experience my higher self through meditation and concentration — I feel as though my higher self is becoming a permanent feature of my conscious personality. It is as though the connection is always 'turned on'. I don't need to 'dial in' to seek guidance. I simply shift my conscious attention to another place inside of me.

I find my higher self giving me intuitive information on an ongoing basis without me having to ask for it. Information pops into my mind like a quiet whisper that I have learned to hear. I feel as though I am floating in the constant stream of source energy, and sometimes my feet dip into the waters to hear where I am and what the source is saying. I have sudden knowledge about what is to happen in the next moment, where I should go, what I should do, or information for someone who has asked me for advice.

Since the new energies of this year, my higher self has also been teaching me during my sleep about the other dimensions of my self and the universe, of which I am a part. It has awakened me regularly to have me remember what I was dreaming, at times making me a lucid dreamer.

The new energies have allowed my higher self to increasingly make me aware of the many levels of consciousness of which I am a part. My unconscious is becoming conscious, and my guidance shows me clearly how I create my reality through the thoughts I think and the beliefs I hold.

As my higher self shows me how it can be trusted and relied upon, it is making friends with my ego. It sees that my needs are being met. My spiritual and physical natures are integrating and aligning with one another. I am beginning to understand that I AM my higher self. We are not separate.

Partnering with my higher self has made me feel as though I am in a fulfilling, long-term relationship, with constant companionship of unconditional love and support. I feel more whole and the relationship has brought me new experiences and joys.

I believe that partnering with our higher self is the natural outcome of healing our false core beliefs, so that we live life in greater joy, peace and love. Our relationships with others teach us to have a relationship with our higher self, which guides us to fulfill our highest purpose. Through the joy and self-love experienced we create the conditions required to attract harmonious, co-creative relationship with others. We begin to manifest a little more heaven on earth and raise the vibration of all that is.

Next month I shall write about a new paradigm of relationships — conscious, co-creative relationships — that develop as a result of our new inner wholeness.

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