Channelling Your Higher Self - Masterclass

Channeling Your Higher Self - Masterclass on working with your higher self & receiving life and business guidance
In this higher Self deep dive, I cover how to work with your higher self, how it's supporting you, and how you can work with your HS to create a life of joy, abundance, and fulfillment.

You'll learn: How to differentiate between your voice of ego versus your higher self. The kind of questions and support you can receive from your higher self. How you can communicate with your higher self to receive guidance around life. The role of your higher self and how they are actually supporting you. Where mental discipline meets spiritual growth and why it's important.

Transcript

Hi beautiful soul,

Welcome to today's episode of Light Leaders Ascension School.

I'm your host Athena Bailey and today we are going to be talking all about the higher self.

Now as you know you have this beautiful spiritual team that loves you unconditionally and is always supporting you,

Always,

No matter what.

Now part of that spiritual team,

Yes you've got your spirit guides,

You've got angels,

You've got ancestors,

But did you know part of it is also your higher self.

When we think about your higher self,

What it is,

It is actually a higher version of your soul.

So when you chose to incarnate here on earth,

Right,

It was your higher self making the decisions.

Which lifetime you would go into,

What you would experience,

What the soul lessons were going to be,

The soul purpose,

All of that kind of information and choices was made by your higher self.

Now your higher self and all of who you are as a soul,

Because it doesn't just stop at your higher self,

Cannot fit into this human body that you hold,

Right.

Who you are,

This bag of meat and bones,

Beautiful bag of meat and bones,

Who you are cannot hold all of the energy that is your soul.

All of your soul,

Which is your higher self is a part of your soul,

But it's the next version,

Right.

So a smaller piece of your higher self came through and that's your soul,

Right.

That's the internal connection that you have to your soul,

To your higher self.

Because we're also,

You know,

Your higher self is on a higher dimension.

So that level of vibration,

That frequency cannot exist here in this third dimensional state.

So your higher self is that next level for the soul.

It's the next evolution of your soul and you are intrinsically connected to your higher self.

The connection,

The line,

It's there,

It always exists.

Most people don't realize that they're actually already talking and hearing their higher self and this is really common in Channeling Spirit Academy.

The first who we learn how to channel and speak to is your higher self.

And what I see a lot of people do is that they won't realize that,

They'll realize that,

Oh,

I've been talking to my high self this whole time.

I didn't realize that that voice that would come through,

That high voice sometimes in meditations or would come with ideas,

That was actually my higher self.

Because we have in your mind right now,

As you move day to day,

You have multiple voices in your mind,

Right?

We have the voice of the ego,

Which we talk about the ego as if it's this bad thing and it's not really bad,

Like you need to have it here,

Right?

You need your ego to exist in this reality and this world.

But we have this lower mind that ties into the ego and the ego is basically running off of limiting programs,

Beliefs,

Trying to keep us safe.

So it's oftentimes that small voice that tries to knock us down or limit us.

For example,

Let's say when you're meditating,

Right?

You're doing a silent meditation,

You're probably gonna have a few things going on in your head.

You might be just saying to yourself,

All right,

Now be silent,

Keep your eyes closed,

Let's just focus on breathing.

Oh shit,

I need to clean the kitchen because I've got a friend coming over later and I don't want it to be messy.

Oh,

And I forgot I need to order some more cat food.

I haven't done that yet.

I need to organize it.

I shouldn't be meditating.

My life is too busy.

I've got too much on.

This isn't doing anything.

Why am I even meditating?

What's the point of this?

Oh my god.

That's the voice of the ego,

Right?

And that's usually what we're struggling in with silent meditation.

It's that voice is almost there and you actually need to train your mind,

Right?

Your mind is actually needs to be trained,

Right?

It needs to be disciplined.

And a lot of people are used to,

We've got to discipline your body,

You've got to work out,

You've got to train.

But what about training your mind?

You can be lazy mentally,

Right?

And that's just a lack of discipline,

Right?

And not knowing how to train your mind.

And one of the ways we train the mind is through meditation because every time the ego says,

This isn't doing shit,

Like why are you wasting your time?

You should be doing other things.

Who do you think you are?

You know,

And telling you stories like that,

We say,

Ego,

Stop.

Shush.

Go away,

Ego.

And that's what you do in meditation.

Every single time the ego rears its head,

You say,

Okay,

Ego,

Be quiet now.

Thank you.

And you just literally visualize yourself pushing it away.

And you do that over and over and over again until it stops.

And trust me,

It will stop.

It might feel like when you're first starting,

It's not stopping and it's always there.

And no matter how many times you ask it to be quiet,

It keeps coming back.

But it gets to a point where it doesn't come back,

Right?

And I can do silent meditation without ego for long periods of times,

Or without the ego coming in and chattering.

It's actually really important that we do that for channeling.

And when you're in that meditation and the ego is coming through,

And remember again,

Ego,

It's not,

We don't want to see it as like,

Oh,

This bad thing,

You know,

That we wish we didn't have.

The ego is important to keep you safe,

To keep you,

It's running on all the programs to keep you surviving,

Right?

It's a survival based instinct part of you.

So it is important and is necessary.

So I don't want to bash up the ego,

But we also want to say now's not the time.

You need to go away right now,

Ego,

Right?

So as you're meditating and you've got these voices coming through,

The other voice that you're going to have is the voice of your higher self.

And you might not recognize this,

And you might feel it more of a whisper.

And oftentimes,

You know,

If you're quite spatial with how you perceive energy and voices,

You might perceive it as coming in through the top of your head even more.

So you might be meditating,

And you've just told your ego to shush.

And then there's silence,

Right?

And then you might get a thought,

A word,

An image,

Maybe you'll hear a name,

You know,

That that might be something you need to do or study or a book you need to read,

Just like a little chip.

And you're like,

Oh,

Where did that come from?

What's that?

Why am I thinking about that?

Where did that come from?

Or you might hear a you need to meditate every day.

Right?

And that part might be there.

And you'll be like,

Where did that come from?

And that's your highest self,

Your highest self is giving you this higher guidance,

Right?

This higher wisdom,

Higher teachings,

And it comes through,

It's in your own voice most of the time.

And it comes through as this little gentle whisper,

That's how it comes up for most people.

But we don't hear that until we shut down the ego or tell the ego to stop and actually go,

Well,

That's my ego,

I recognize the voice of the ego.

So if my ego is there,

What are the other voices that I'm hearing in my head,

And that's part of how we train the mind as well.

And is also puts you into state of observation.

So when you have limiting beliefs,

Such as,

Oh,

I'm not good enough,

And no,

I'm not worthy,

Or,

You know,

Oh,

I don't have enough money and other limiting beliefs that we say to ourselves in our mind,

When you meditate in silence,

And you're training with those different voices you're hearing,

You are also training to be able to go,

Hey,

I've just had this thought in my mind,

Stop,

Right?

Because most people,

It's just running unconsciously non-stop,

And they can't,

They don't even realize they're just having these thoughts,

These thoughts,

These thoughts,

You want to get to a place where you have a thought,

Like,

Let's say,

You know,

I'll recognize I have a limiting pattern or thought,

I might say,

You know,

You know,

Like,

Oh,

Who am I to be,

Who do I think I am to be starting a YouTube show,

Right?

Like,

Maybe I'll have a little worthiness come up,

It's important for me to recognize straight away,

Oh,

That's interesting,

Where did that thought come from?

That came from my ego,

That's not from me,

I don't get mad at myself,

I don't judge myself,

I just observing with curiosity,

Right?

And then I can go,

Oh,

No,

Thank you,

I don't want to have that thought,

I am absolutely worthy and good enough to be hosting a YouTube show,

Right?

So that's the kind of shift,

So when you begin to discipline your mind,

As you're walking through your day,

You also get to observe your thoughts and what's coming through,

So you become more conscious and aware of what is going on,

And you're not just running these patterns without any awareness,

Which is how the majority of people are running.

So your higher self is always connected with you,

And look,

Whenever you're speaking with channeling or working with your higher self or spiritual team,

Their words are always going to be loving,

Right?

And I don't mean they're gonna be like,

Every time you connect,

If like,

You're channeling and all you get every single time is,

You're amazing,

You're doing so well,

We love you,

Your channeling needs a lot of work,

Right?

Because the way that you should be speaking with your spiritual team is the same way you're speaking to another person,

It's conversations,

And your spiritual team is not just gonna be a cheerleader,

They're not just gonna be like,

Yay,

Keep going,

You're doing amazing,

They should be giving you,

One,

Really direct guidance and steps and pathways in answering your questions,

And secondly,

Yes,

They do give you a kick up the bum sometimes when you need it.

And I have had these a few times,

My husband's had these a few times,

And we're always so grateful for them,

Right?

And it's kind of a little bit humbling and kind of like,

Hey,

You've been focusing on the wrong thing,

You need to get back on track,

Right?

This is not where you need to put your energy,

This is what you need to focus on.

My spiritual team had a talk with me a few months ago,

Where they sat me down and were like,

All right,

Athena,

You're not supposed to focus on that,

This is where we need your energy.

And it was loving,

Like,

You could still feel the intention was for the highest good,

But they had to really say,

Athena,

You've been in your ego,

You need to step out of it,

And you need to focus on this.

So it's kind of like that loving parent,

Right?

A loving parent isn't just going to be like,

Yay,

Good job,

Sweetie,

All the time.

They're going to be like,

Hey,

You need to create a shift here,

Right?

They're going to help you.

So with your spiritual team,

When you're connecting with them and receiving guidance from them,

If you're doing it well and correctly,

You will occasionally,

Lovingly,

Get told off,

Right?

And get told that what you need to shift and work on,

That's a part of it.

So whenever you're channeling and working with your higher self,

You're always going to feel the frequency of love.

There's never going to be fear ever,

Right?

If there is any fear-based stuff coming up at all,

It's not of the light,

Right?

So,

And that's why you want to have,

Like,

Discernment practices and set up systems,

All those things,

Which I teach in Channeling Spirit Academy to really ensure that who you're channeling is the person that you want to be channeling,

Or is a being that you want to be channeling and is of the light.

That is very important.

So when you are correctly channeling your higher self,

There's never going to be any fear messages.

It's always going to be with a vibration and a frequency of love.

Yes,

Often it'll be encouraging,

Supportive,

Loving,

And sometimes it will be loving,

Kick up the bums or redirections on what you need to,

You know,

Maybe what you need to shift and work on within yourself.

So your higher self holds all the information about you,

Right?

Your higher self is literally you,

But a higher,

More evolved part of you.

And it doesn't stop with your higher self.

Your soul has these levels.

You know,

You have your soul,

Your higher self,

Your oversoul,

Your monadic self,

Your soul group,

All the way up to the creator,

Right?

Because the creator or source energy,

Part of its expressing of itself was it,

What's the best way to word this?

The creator expressed itself and through these light beams that came through it,

Down through the dimensions,

It became more parts of itself,

More fragmented parts,

Right?

So that's why we say that you have a spark of divinity within you.

You are the divine within you.

We're talking about you,

Your soul,

Right?

Because that part of you is literally a spark of source energy.

And so is your higher self,

But it's a bigger spark and so on and so on and so on.

So your higher self and you are deeply connected to source energy.

And there is this almost lineage of higher evolutions of your soul.

But the next one that is closest to you is your higher self.

And it is out of all the beings that are supporting you,

It is the one that is most obsessed with you,

Right?

Lovingly,

Like,

It's like,

Are you on track?

Are you doing what you need to be?

I need to be guiding you.

It's like your higher self's full-time job,

Right?

Because you're guiding the evolution of your higher self as well with your life here.

So your higher self is very focused on what you're doing here,

How you're experiencing life,

What you're doing,

Because your higher self has said,

You're going to have these soul lessons,

These experiences,

You're going to do this,

You're going to help these people,

Set everything up for you.

And it's making sure that you are on track.

Now,

That's one of the reasons why creating communication with your higher self is so important.

Because if you can communicate every single day with your higher self,

Just think about,

Like,

How much easier your life gets to get,

Right?

You get to ask about the soul contracts that you have with certain people to understand why they're showing up in your life the way they are,

Or,

You know,

Why you're struggling in certain areas.

Is there a soul lesson behind it?

What are you not seeing?

Is it alignment?

Is it not?

So it makes the path a lot easier.

Your higher self is the best person to ask for when you're asking about,

What is my soul purpose?

What is it that I'm here to do?

Now,

Your higher self is still a spiritual being and still requires permission,

The lower free will,

To really fully work with you.

Yes,

They have some level of availability to interfere with your life because they are a higher part of you.

But to really come in and assist you in a big way,

They need you to ask,

Right?

They need your permission.

So if you haven't yet,

It's really important for you to sit down every day and say,

Higher self,

Spiritual team who are serving the light only,

I call you forth now.

I ask you,

Please,

To support me in,

Share what you want to be supported and say,

I request divine interference of the highest good in my life to help me,

To put me on the path that I'm meant to be on,

To align me with my soul,

To support my spiritual development,

To support bringing an abundance and joy and love into my life.

Thank you,

Thank you,

Thank you.

So you get to have these conversations and ask your higher self to come in.

Now,

Many of you,

Most of you,

Will have heard your higher self,

But you just didn't recognize it.

So as you ask your higher self to come in and to interfere with your life,

Your higher self might start taking charge,

Bringing more signs,

Creating those breadcrumbs from spirit to show you which way you need to go and what path you need to follow.

However,

Your higher self is also the easiest to begin communicating with.

And like I said,

In Chandler Spirit Academy,

We start with the higher self because it's the closest connection to us.

And it's simultaneously the hardest,

But also the easiest.

It's the easiest because it's the closest to us and it's your higher self has worked with your whole life and you have such a profound connection to it,

But it is simultaneously the hardest because it's so much like you that you don't always recognize the energy.

So for example,

When you're beginning Chandling a Spirit Guide,

Right,

Like let's say we connect to a Pleiadian Spirit Guide,

Right,

Or let's say you connect to Thoth,

Right,

The Egyptian god Thoth.

If you connect to Thoth,

His energy is so different to yours,

Right?

You're like,

Whoa,

I feel your energy.

I recognize it as external to mine.

It's so strong.

It's quite masculine.

It's intense.

It's very different to mine.

And you recognize and perceive and feel that there is a different separate energy to yours.

So when you're Chandling,

That makes it a lot easier because you're like,

Wow,

I can really feel this energy coming in,

Coming forward.

You can connect asset energy,

You know,

But with your higher self,

The energy is you.

So it's a little bit harder to perceive and feel and understand when you're calling your higher self.

You might feel a higher aspect of you,

But the energy signature is still super similar to what you already have.

So it's not going to be like,

Oh my god,

There's this whole new big energy that I don't recognize that I'm feeling come into my space because you are already connected.

And a lot of time,

Your higher self connection is internal.

It's not external.

It's an internal connection because your higher self has this deep connection with you.

So when you're Chandling and talking with your higher self,

We receive it through our mind,

Through our head.

And it's a very different experience to Chandling spirit guides or ancestors or anything else that's external to you,

Right?

So if you want to start receiving guidance from your higher self,

The number one,

And there are lots of different ways,

You know,

It's very important to get a yes or no from your higher self.

We do that in Chandling Spirit Academy as well,

And be able to talk to them.

However,

Even before that,

There is one exercise that honestly,

I recommend for everyone who wants to improve spiritual development in any way,

Which is just five minutes of silent meditation every single day,

Right?

And I'm not saying 20 an hour.

If you want to do an hour,

Go for it.

But honestly,

Five minutes.

And when you first start this,

Five minutes is going to be so hard.

And silent meditation,

You might be thinking,

Oh,

It's a bit basic.

No,

It's not.

It's actually very,

Very important.

It's very important for mental development,

Spiritual development,

Energetic development,

Self-awareness.

It's super,

Super important.

So if you go ahead and you sit down every single day for five minutes,

You set a timer,

Sit down,

You close your eyes,

Take a few deep breaths,

And you start thinking about nothing with a focus to empty your mind and just breathe.

Now,

If you've never done that before,

You're going to struggle.

You're going to struggle.

You're not going to be able to go 10 seconds without having a thought even.

Okay,

I need to think about nothing.

Oh,

Shit.

I'm thinking.

I'm thinking about not thinking.

Oh,

My God.

Okay.

Oh,

My leg hurts a bit.

Wait,

Don't think about that.

How long do I have left?

Has it been 10 seconds yet?

Oh,

No.

Oh,

I'm kind of cold.

That's what you're going to have going on,

Right?

And that's an undisciplined mind.

That's okay.

Unless you've been disciplining your mind.

That's how you're going to feel to start with.

And you will get to a point where there is nothing.

And as soon as you have a thought,

And as soon as you have a thought,

So let's say you say,

Oh,

I shouldn't be thinking about anything.

Go,

Okay,

No worries.

And you allow that thought,

See that thought visually,

Move it out of your mind,

Just see yourself brushing it out.

And then just seeing the emptiness,

The space,

And breathe.

And then you'll have another thought come up,

And another one,

And another one.

And you keep doing that,

Push it away,

Release.

Oh,

Thank you.

Let go,

Let go,

Let go.

And eventually,

You know,

You might not be able to go 10 seconds without having a thought come in.

Eventually,

You'll get to 20 seconds,

And 30 seconds.

Then you'll go for a whole minute,

You'll be like,

Oh,

My God,

I didn't have a thought for so long.

Oh,

Shit,

I'm having a thought now.

Okay,

That's what will happen.

And then suddenly,

You'll get to five minutes without having a thought.

Now,

What happens when you go for that long without having thought,

Right?

Your ego coming in and talking is you get into an expanded consciousness,

You activate a higher brainwave state,

And you connect into the quantum realms.

And you feel it,

Right?

Like I feel it after a couple of minutes of silent meditation,

Like my energy changes,

My consciousness expands,

My awareness opens.

And it's like,

I am more open to receive.

And it's in that state that your higher self can come through.

Now,

As you're doing this process,

And you're doing the silent meditation,

You might find your higher self already does come in,

Your higher self might come in and say,

You might start receiving insights,

Downloads,

Inspiration,

You should create this course,

You should read this book,

You might receive something,

You might not,

Either way is perfect,

Right?

We want to go in without expectation.

And once you have gone for a few minutes without a thought,

That's when we're going to begin to ask,

You'll feel the energy change,

You'll feel yourself Wow,

I feel really relaxed and open and expanded.

That's how you'll feel.

That's the sign that your consciousness has expanded.

And your awareness has expanded.

And that is when we then call in our higher self.

So then you get to go higher self.

And you can say this with your mind.

So remember,

You're connected to your higher self,

Always higher self,

I call you forward to be here with me now.

And just feel and receive.

And then you get to begin to ask questions.

And my recommendation is you begin with the yes,

No questions,

Right?

So you can ask higher self,

Are you there with me right now?

And just see and feel Do you receive a yes?

Or do you receive a no?

How does a yes feel in your body?

How does a no feel in your body?

And then begin to work your way up higher self?

Are you supporting me today?

Yes,

No.

Okay.

Higher self?

Is it in my highest good to study with this teacher?

Yes,

No.

Higher self?

Is it in my highest good to have a coffee after this?

Yes,

No.

Start with a low attachment questions.

Like really questions you're not attaching,

You don't want to dive in and go higher self should I divorce my my wife,

Right?

You don't want to ask that because your ego is going to be like,

Oh my god,

Oh my god,

What if they say yes,

And it's gonna be very complicated.

So you want to disattach questions first.

Higher self?

Is it in my highest good to read this book?

And you can say the book higher self?

Is it in my highest good to exercise tomorrow morning?

Start asking questions like that.

Notice the yes or no.

And when you feel like you've got the yes,

No down,

Then you can move on to deeper questioning.

What is my sole purpose?

What are the soul lessons I'm currently going through?

What do I need to know right now?

And ultimately,

That's the question that you then want to be asking every single day.

That's a question that we sit down and we go higher self.

What do I need to know right now?

Higher self?

You know,

What do I need to be aware of right now?

That's a question that I ask every single day.

And what's really important for you to be tuning into as your relationship with spirit develops,

Because that's where you can kind of always stay on top in shun and aware of what you need to move into,

What you need to create in your life,

Because that's what your higher self wants.

Your higher self wants to put you on the path of full soul alignment,

You doing what you came here to do.

Your higher self so deeply wants you to be aligned with your sole purpose,

Helping who you came here to help,

Fulfilling your soul contracts,

Surrounded by your soulmates,

Your divine life partner,

People who you're here to work with,

In your life.

That's what your higher self wants for you.

And your higher self is guiding you to get there.

Your higher self is a higher part of you that knows all parts of you knows you than any better than any other spiritual being.

So it's really important for you to begin to cultivate a relationship and just start having conversations with your higher self.

Call them in,

Connect with them,

Talk to them,

Even if it's one sided for now,

You know,

You can even be in the car driving.

I talk to spirit all the time when I drive.

You can go ahead and call in your higher self,

Say hi yourself,

Can you please be here with me right now?

Hi higher self,

You know,

Just share where you're at,

What you're needing support with,

Ask for help with whatever you're going through.

Even if you can't hear them yet,

That's okay,

But it's like you're opening up the conversation with them.

And what that does as well is it strengthens the connection between you and your higher self.

And it makes channeling and that whole connection so much easier as well.

And if you do this every single day,

The silent meditation,

The connection to your higher self,

It's going to be no time till you're actually fully having conversations with your higher self and talking to them.

And if you want to learn the next level of channeling your higher self of actually being able to have these full blown conversations with clarity,

Trans-channeling,

Light language channeling with your higher self,

I do have Channeling Spirit Academy where I do go deep into that.

I'll put the link down for that down below.

So my invitation to you is call in your higher self,

Begin working with your higher self,

Because for me working with my higher self has been so incredibly fulfilling,

Helpful,

And the guidance that has come through from my higher self has set me up for so many things in my life.

So thank you so much,

Beautiful soul,

For being here with me today for this episode.

I hope this has been helpful and you've enjoyed it.

Sending you big love and blessings.

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