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Two Key Elements for Aligning With Your Higher Self: Honesty and Integrity
Aligning with your Higher Self begins with being Honest and in Integrity with Yourself. Alexis Cartwright defines the Higher Self as follows: “The Higher Self is the consciousness of the Godhead that encompasses the totality of all knowledge, reason and wisdom sustained within Nature and our universe. It is the consciousness which orchestrates the creation and function of the human body, as well as the spiritual technology that sustains our universe. It is the consciousness we can tap into to retrieve the answers to all we seek to understand.” Transference Healing Animal Magic by Alexis Cartwright, Transference Healing Pty. Ltd., 2005, p. 276.
You can access your Higher Self by connecting to your spirituality. The reason for tapping into the spiritual side of yourself is so that you can feel more fulfilled and more at peace, living your life to your fullest potential, for your highest good. However, you cannot truly access your spiritual side for your highest good without being honest and in integrity with yourself. Living your best life begins with honesty and integrity because honesty and integrity allows one to accurately assess the state of their life. While honesty and integrity seem straightforward, many people are challenged to do it, evidenced by the fact that people self-medicate, and distract themselves with external things. It can feel uncomfortable to still oneself and take a deep look inward. However, until you conduct an honest assessment of your feelings and where you are in your life, then you cannot truly and really begin to move forward.
One of the things to carefully look at it in a self-assessment is what you want in your life. And it is not about what you think you want or what you think you should want. Honestly ask yourself what you want from life: your hopes, dreams and goals. Also, ask yourself honestly what are your insecurities and fears about not being able to achieve these hopes, dreams and goals? Your true hopes, your true dreams, and your true wishes, they are worthy and valid.
It is important to identify and acknowledge any insecurities and fear around what you want because if you squash your dreams with fear, that is self-defeating and not helpful for you to attain your dreams. Let’s look at insecurities and fear in closer detail.
Have you ever tried to do something before and failed at it? You wish that you had kept going and tried again, but instead you told yourself that what you wanted to accomplish was not important and it did not matter anyway?
Do you console yourself by telling yourself, “If only I did x, y, and z I could have been someone famous or done something really important or meaningful in my life?
Do you just imagine and pretend that you could have accomplished something significant in life? Do you make excuses and place blame on others as to why you did not get to accomplish what you wanted? Obstacles and challenges will always exist; that is part of the reality of being human. Humans face challenges; we have had challenges since before we were born. It was challenging for us to be conceived. Growing in our mother’s womb. Making it out of the birth canal into the world. Arriving in a healthy state with all of our original limbs, toes, and organs formed and functioning. Simply put, being born was a challenge. And the fact that we are alive and continue to stay alive is wondrous because life is never guaranteed and can cease in an instant.
The point of being honest and in integrity about our lives, to truly look at our shortcomings, our wishes, and our desires is so that we can truly assess and address what needs to be supported and worked on. If we do not turn on the lights in a room we will not be able to see what is dirty and needs to be cleaned. If we do not open the mail we will not be able to see what bills or notices that come in and needs to be addressed. If we do not open our drawers then we will not see what items are in the drawers that we can use, work with, or can let go of.
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