Understanding the Higher Self: How to Connect with Your Eternal Spirit
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By Laura Zibalese | groundedpsychic.com
What Is the Higher Self?
Are we just a body with a brain — a collection of memories, habits, and experiences? Or are we something far more vast, luminous, and eternal?
Every human being carries within them a higher consciousness — an expanded awareness that transcends time, personality, and physical life. This eternal aspect is known as the Higher Self, also referred to as the Over-Soul or Over-Self.
Your Higher Self is not separate from you; it is you — the infinite part of your soul that always remains in spirit.
The Eternal Aspect of Your Higher Self Spirit
Think of the Higher Self as the unbroken continuity of your consciousness. While part of your soul incarnates into a physical body, another part stays in the spiritual realm, observing, learning, and guiding.
The Higher Self:
Never incarnates fully — it remains connected to Source.
Watches over each lifetime as an overseer and teacher.
Acts as a bridge between your soul and your human self.
When you feel an inner nudge, a quiet voice that says, “Go this way,” or “Wait,” — that’s your Higher Self whispering through intuition.
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A Lamp and Light Analogy
Imagine your body is a 40-watt lamp. Your soul is a 1,000-watt light bulb.
You can’t place a 1,000-watt bulb into a 40-watt lamp without overloading it — something will burn out. Thus, before each incarnation, your soul chooses the right “wattage” — determining how much energy and awareness your physical body can safely hold.
This process happens around the fifth month of gestation, when the brain and nervous system are developed sufficiently to receive the soul’s spark.
If too much energy flows in, it can cause restlessness, anxiety, or hyperactivity. Too little, and the body may feel sluggish, fatigued, or disconnected.
Your Higher Self calibrates the perfect balance, ensuring your body and soul can harmonize for this lifetime’s lessons.
The Higher Self and Human Intelligence
Your Higher Self is not limited by ego, culture, or personality. It does not identify with one lifetime. It perceives all your incarnations as chapters of the same grand story — each contributing to your soul’s evolution.
It knows your past lives, your present path, and even the future potentials that extend beyond this incarnation.
When you feel drawn toward a person, a place, or a passion that makes no logical sense, it’s often because your Higher Self is guiding you toward unfinished learning or new growth.
“Spirit is to Soul as Mind is to Brain.” — Alec, Laura’s Guide
Your Higher Self is your Spirit — the universal intelligence that flows through your individual soul.
Can You Communicate With Your Higher Self?
Absolutely — and in fact, you already do.
Your Higher Self speaks through your subconscious mind and intuition. It may show up as:
A sudden knowing or insight.
A strong feeling to avoid or pursue something.
A voice of calm reason amid chaos.
Vivid dreams or repeated symbols.
These moments aren’t random — they’re messages from the part of you that remembers the bigger plan.
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How to Connect Consciously
You can strengthen your connection through:
Meditation – Quiet the mind to tune into your inner guidance. 10 minutes a day- in six weeks, you will find the connection.
Automatic Writing – Ask your Higher Self questions, relax, and allow the answers to flow.
Dreamwork – Keep a journal; your Higher Self often speaks in symbols. Write your dreams out in a notebook before you do anything else, no phone, no coffee, only memory of your dreams...in detail.
Nature Time – Stillness in nature helps align your energy with your spiritual essence. Walk in the grass barefoot, garden, go to the beach or mountains, play with an animal. Let the energy of nature fill and guide you.
Ask, listen, and trust. The voice may feel subtle at first, but it grows stronger with faith and attention.
Why Contact Your Higher Self?
When you align with your Higher Self, you access:
Greater clarity in decision-making.
Deep inner peace even amid uncertainty.
The ability to release old fear-based patterns.
A sense of purpose and direction beyond logic.
It becomes easier to trust that life unfolds with intelligence and love — that your soul knows exactly what it’s doing.
The Higher Self acts as both compass and anchor, helping you navigate life’s storms without losing sight of who you truly are.
The Over-Soul and the Spirit
Many traditions use different words for the same truth: Higher Self, Over-Soul, Spirit, Divine Essence.
As my Spirit Guide, Alec, once said:
“Although you on Earth love to come up with new terms for everything, the Higher Self or Over-Soul is simply another name for Spirit.”
Your Spirit is eternal, unbroken, and connected to the Source of all life. Your Higher Self is that Spirit focusing through you, guiding the incarnate self — your current expression — back toward unity.
Final Thoughts
You are not simply a body,
not simply a mind.
You are a luminous soul expressing itself through a physical experience. Your Higher Self — the eternal you — is always whispering guidance, love, and wisdom.
When you trust it, you begin to live as what you truly are: an eternal consciousness learning through form.
Ask for its wisdom. Listen for its voice. Remember — your Higher Self has never once left your side.
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