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How To Be Happy Where You Are AND Excited For Where You’re Going

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My work is to b happy where I am and eager for the vortex to take me where I want to go - Abraham Hicks

“My work is to be happy where I am and eager for the vortex to take me where I want to go!” – Abraham Hicks

I woke up on Friday morning thinking of this, after what felt like a very dense, heavy week of working through shadows and putting a lot of “effort” into my work, and life.

That felt exhausting, and by the end of the week…I was ready for another way.

It’s funny, because for the last few weeks I’ve been focusing on this idea of “raising my vibration” and working with my community members to support them through doing the same.

And here’s the thing: it’s been working! Overall, I’ve been feeling fantastic – but I also notice that when I spend extra time and attention focused on feeling good I can also get less tolerant of the times I don’t feel so good. Which can then make me push harder to “feel good all the time”….and in case you couldn’t guess, the paradox THERE is that it has the opposite effect!

Sooooo….what’s a generally high vibe human to do, when confronted with this pickle of an energetic situation?!

Let go!!

Before you roll your eyes like “yeah yeah, what does that even MEAN THO” let me explain!

“Letting go” is simply about dropping the resistance we’re feeling about something, which is what Abraham is talking about in the quote I shared above.

So, say you want to “feel good” but you don’t in fact feel good right now. Instead of focusing on how you DON’T feel good, and you can’t possibly feel better right now because XYZ blah blah blah….you just cut that thought off, and DO SOMETHING ELSE.

Put on a fun song, and wiggle your cute lil butt around the room. Look up a video of your favourite comedian on YouTube and laugh for a few minutes.

Or…wait for it….set a timer on your phone for 2-5 minutes and inhale, exhale, inhale, exhale, REPEAT.

Letting go or releasing resistance to something that feels unpleasant or is holding us back is just about cutting off the thought/feeling loop that’s unhelpful, and replacing it with something neutral or positive.

Like meditation. Or moving your body. Or a completely different activity that takes your mind off it.

If you feel like you’ve “got a problem” and you practice this letting go/releasing resistance often enough, the “solution” to your problem will eventually just come to you, because the space will have been made for it when you stopped filling that space with the problem itself aka the absence of a solution.

This is how you get “happy where you are and excited for what’s to come” – by letting go, lightening up, and letting it flowwwwww.

We’re going to be working on this in even more detail this week in the More Than A Meatsuit community, and if you’d like to join us – the doors are open!

Either way – have a lovely day, enjoying whatever the vortex may bring your way!

The 3-Step Process To Trusting Yourself (and never feeling like you “made a mistake” again!)

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I want to share a lesson with you today that I think is one of the most important and valuable things I’ve ever learned. It literally cost me thousands of dollars (and many years)…but you get it right now for free because I just want you to know and implement it as soon as possible.

The lesson is this: trust yourself.

Trust your gut, your intuition, and your ability to make the best choices and know what is right for you, always.

If you really, really want to change, grow or achieve any kind of true, lasting happiness, meaning, fulfillment, or success in your life…you need to learn how to really trust, support, love, and back yourself.

No one else can do it for you, and if you don’t fully trust your own ability to make choices or take action in service of your own highest good…anything outside of yourself that you can buy, learn, or achieve ain’t worth shit.

Let me explain what I mean:

Say you want to start a business around your art or passion, but you’re not sure exactly how to do that yet. So you look around and see other people succeeding in the ways you want to. Making money. Sharing their creations with the world, getting glowing feedback, having an impact on people’s lives and apparently loving every second of it.

And best part of it all? Some of these people are ALSO selling courses, books, products, or coaching to teach YOU how to do what they’ve done! They’ll share all their secrets with you, so you can be a “success” too! OMG!

(Note: I’m using the example of a business here, but this also goes for someone selling spiritual transformation, healing, a fitness or nutrition program – literally anything that will “improve” some aspect of your life.)

So, you buy their program, aka their “secrets.”

And you implement all the steps they give you, for the duration of the program/book/course/relationship you have with them.

And some things in your situation “improve.”

But you also find yourself doubting if this will really work for you.

Are you meant for this success? This transformation? This happiness?

You do the things you’ve learned, but wonder if you’ve done enough. If you’ve missed something. You get distracted, enthusiasm wanes, you second guess yourself, get busy, go back to your old habits.

Maybe that just wasn’t the thing for you. Maybe there’s another secret that this other expert is teaching that will really get you where you need to go.

So you pick up a new book or course, start following a new path and think this is it, finally, the real secrets I needed.

If you guessed at this point that this cycle just keeps repeating (or know from your own experience that it does ?)…you would be correct.

Here’s the thing.

Until what you really learn is that there is no “secret” outside of yourself, you’ll keep repeating this cycle.

Until what you really learn is that you can (and should) always trust yourself, your intuition, and your own gut feeling above everything else, you’ll keep repeating this cycle.

I’m not saying you can’t learn from other people, have a guide, way-shower or community to support you along the way. All of those things are incredibly valuable. We need knowledge, skills, and sometimes even a roadmap.

What I am saying is no one (or no thing) else holds “the secret” that will lead to your success, happiness, or transformation (and if they seem to be suggesting you can only get this non-existent “secret” from them – please run away quickly.)

You don’t need a “guru” or even a “religion” to help you access the spiritual, especially.

What you need is the trust in your own abilities to access the part of you that is “more than a meatsuit.”

There’s an awareness in you that is observing your experiences, right now. You can trust it.

It’s your “higher self.”

It’s your intuition, and inner wisdom, that always knows the right thing to do in a situation. That knows whether a person or choice or action is “right” for you before your thinking mind does.

You always have access to these things, to this wisdom, and it will help you have all the confidence you’ll ever need to direct your life however you want it to go.

The best practice you can ever cultivate for yourself, is tuning in to what your higher self has to say to you, learning how it speaks to you, and trusting those messages when they come up.

Practice getting in touch with these aspects of yourself, trusting yourself, to love and back yourself and stand in your own power.

This is one of my favourite things to help people with, because I don’t want you to just trust me (I mean, you can)…more importantly, I want you to trust YOU.

I’ve spent THOUSANDS of dollars and hours on retreats, courses, trainings, coaches, and experiences in search of personal transformation, spiritual transformation, creative transformation and success….and while it was all part of the puzzle and I’m grateful for all of it, it didn’t really “click” until I realized the missing piece – that I was trusting my various teachers and the knowledge they held more than I was trusting myself.

They all paved a path for me, but I’ve experienced more depth of growth in a year without a “teacher” other than the trust in myself to connect to my own inner knowing and awareness, to follow my intuition and guidance.

A lack of trust in yourself can look like:

  • Second-guessing your choices and decisions
  • Feeling perpetually or frequently “confused” about something, or what to do next
  • Thinking “who am I to do xyz” or having “imposter syndrome”
  • Searching for more information, education, or planning before you feel like you can begin something new
  • Procrastinating

 
When you can easily access, and become familiar with how your intuition speaks to you, or develop a relationship with your “higher self” you’ll feel like you can trust your choices and decisions, and move much more quickly, and with ease, through projects, transitions, and even little things in daily life.

I don’t want to say it’s magic – but it’s kind of magic, when you trust and support yourself.

Hear this: you never truly make a “mistake” in life, you are just doubting the choices that led you to where you are on your path when you feel this way.

In any moment, we are always doing what we think is “best” for us, it’s just that sometimes this comes from our ego-and-fear-driven thinking mind, instead of our “higher self” which has a greater perspective and knows what is truly best for our highest good.

When you learn to connect with your higher self, you can access this next-level guidance when you have a choice to make (big or little) and feel confident that you’re doing what is for your highest good and not based in fear (and everything that drives that.)

There’s a 3-step process I love to use to access my higher self wisdom, when I have a question I want an answer to, a choice to make, or just feel a little scattered in general and want to get my shit together (pro-tip: higher self always feels like “shit together!”)

Three Step Process to Access Higher Self Guidance

  1. Close your eyes, and take a few deep breaths. Make you inhales + exhales the same length, and hold the breath in at the top, and out at the bottom for a moment. Repeat for at least a minute or two to calm the nervous system and turn down the noise of the thinking mind.
  2. Place your hand on your heart centre, and take a few of these same breaths “through” your heart, with the intention you are connecting to your higher self.
  3. When you feel a calm, peaceful energy surrounding yourself – ask your higher self any specific question you may have, or just ask “is there anything I need to know right now?” And then listen to whatever bubbles up. This is your guidance – go with whatever comes up first, and trust it! Repeat this or any other questions you may have until you feel satisfied, thank yourself for the guidance – and you’re done!

This process can take as little or as much time as you’d like, depending on how much guidance you want, or how chatty your higher self is feeling!

If it feels weird, or like you’re not receiving any “guidance” or information at first – keep trying, and notice how any messages may be coming.

Some people literally hear words, or their own voice in their mind, some have a strong feeling of what to do, or you may even see images or have a song pop into your head.

Because this is YOU communicating with YOU, if you spend the time I promise you’ll be able to interpret the guidance that comes.

If you’d like to go deeper with this practice to really dive in deep with the trusting yourself, and tapping into that glorious “got my shit together” feeling, I’ve created a 15 minute guided higher self meditation that walks you through this whole process, and guides you on a few additional questions to ask for even deeper guidance and transformation.

Enter your email below to grab the meditation, and you’ll also get a short 3-day e-course on how to deepen this higher self connection even further.

It’s one of the most valuable practices you’ll ever develop, and I can’t wait for you to discover the joys of really getting to know and trust yourself.

“Is the self-help industry gaslighting you?”

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“Is the self-help industry gaslighting you?”

I came across a cute instagram graphic in my scrolling this morning that said this, and I realized I have A Lot Of Thoughts on this topic…so I thought I’d share a few with you today, in case you ever feel a bit like the constant social media onslaught of positive-thinking affirmations and “good vibes only” thing is a biiiiiiiiit much.

Here’s the thing: good vibes are important. They create kindness, love, and compassion in your life and in the world at large.

And like the old Buddhist teaching says, “with your mind you create the world.”

100%

Your create your personal reality with the contents of your mind (conscious and subconscious), and by interacting with the world at large contribute to creating that as well.

Your perception of what is going on in your life, in the world around you, and in your very own MIND determines so much of how you feel, and what you think is possible for you.

My mother’s old zen teacher used to say, “just because there’s mud doesn’t mean you have to roll around in it” and I always remember that when I read the news, in particular.

We have a lot of broken systems and institutions in our world, and a lot of people who have been harmed (and continue to be harmed) by these systems and institutions of privilege.

And here’s where I think it can get a little murky and muddy and some of us may feel like the self-help, personal development, coaching, or overly-positive spiritual communities are “gaslighting” us.

Racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, and the oppression and related trauma that can come from being part of any marginalized group is real. 

It affects people on deep levels. It may have affected you. 

And you don’t need to feel like you should be able to “positive affirmation” or “manifest” your way out of having negative thoughts, feelings, or situations in your life if this (or anything else) is the case, and these things feel like they’re inauthentic to your lived experiences.

You didn’t “manifest” something negative or traumatic into your life, you didn’t do something wrong, and it’s not somehow you fault.

And you’re certainly not broken if you’re still struggling. (Pro-tip: everyone is “struggling” to some degree, even those who appear to have their shit together in some ways.)

Human experience comes in more shades and layers than a single person can really comprehend, and wherever you are right now is fine.

It’s also fine to want more, and to want to change. 

It’s more than fine, actually – I think it’s inherent in the human condition to want to grow, heal, and evolve to feeling more comfortable in ourselves and our lives.

The feeling that someone is trying to “gaslight” you comes when what they’re teaching, sharing, or selling either outright says or even just implies that there is something wrong with you or your situation, and that only they or a certain way of thinking/being/doing/having can “fix” you.

But the main problem lies in anything that makes it seem like your experience is wrong, bad, or you’re to blame for it.

Each one of us can take responsibility for healing our experience, trauma, or something that we no longer wish to experience, but we don’t need to take blame for it nor believe we deserve it or called it upon ourselves.

Responsibility can say “I made a mistake that led to my current circumstances and I’m willing to own that, change my perspective and actions, and move forward” and responsibility can also say “something awful happened to me because of where I was at a certain time, it was not my fault but I can now choose to do what needs to be done to heal the hurt parts of me and move forward.” 

Only you know exactly what parts of your current situation, perspective, or feelings you are responsible for, but with a little reflection (help, therapy, etc) you can determine this AND determine how and where to shift your perspective to one of this healing and moving forward.

There are a lot of paradoxes and contradictions in life, and while I do think there is a lesson to be learned in everything, and anything can be healed and shifted to allow for “positivity” I also think we need to be wary of “everything happens for a reason” when it turns into spiritual by-passing and denial of honest experience.

You get to feel bad vibes, if that’s where you’re at right now.

To move through something, you generally need to shine some light on it to see what’s actually there.

But like the old zen master said, you don’t need to roll around in it, which to me is also something to be acutely aware of.

Because we also like to argue for our comfort zones and our limitations, a less helpful part of the human condition than seeking growth 😉

There are a lot of systems stacked against a lot of people right now, and a lot of institutionalized harm being played out daily. It’s A Lot to handle, and it’s ultimately up to those of us who see it for what it is to change, dismantle, and rebuild these systems – which does mean we need to have some level of optimism + positivity that this can be done, and to not shut up about it until it is.

I wanted to share these thoughts with you today, because it’s “Raise Your Vibration” month in the More Than A Meatsuit community, and I’ve been thinking a lot about the topic of “feeling good,” why we often don’t, and what are the appropriate actions to be taking to “raise your vibration” while also honouring where you may be at right now if it feels less than “raised.”

And here’s my take: “raising your vibration” IS about being 100% present in the moment, even with shit that feels hard and, well, shitty.

It’s acknowledging that things may seem like a hot mess, while doing your best to release any baggage or piling on of additional negative thoughts and beliefs that will compound the hot mess into an even messier one.

It’s not patching over anything ugly with positive affirmations that feel fake, but taking a moment to decide which “high vibe” feelings YOU truly value and desire to feel (abundance? Unconditional love? Wonder and awe at the magic of life? Healthy and strong? Powerful? etc!) and then knowing that YOU have the power and the responsibility to go about cultivating those feelings in yourself.

Because not taking blame also means not placing blame, or giving your power away.

You get to work on removing the blocks that stand in your way, and that may in the short term mean moments of feeling shittier and “low vibe” – but trusting that it is the path to your highest good. The more you move through your healing, your “vibe” or sense of wellbeing will naturally rise, regardless of outside (or inside) circumstances.

Literally the only thing we have “control” over in life is how we internally react to outside circumstances AND to our own internal thoughts, beliefs, and processes.

I still feel like this barely scratches the surface of this topic, because it’s such a big one – and I have more I’ll say at other times.

But for today I just want you to know that ALL “vibes” are welcome here.

Whatever you’re feeling or going through is never wrong, there’s a lot of jacked up shit going on in the world that may have harmed you or caused you to believe that something about you is wrong or broken but that. is. not. ever. the. case.

You can always call your power back, by knowing you have the power to do so 😉

You’re perfect.

I love you.

July is “Raise Your Vibration” month in the MTAMS community, and our exercise this week is one to call back your personal power to cleansing, strengthening, and “protecting” your energy. I think you’ll love it. You can find out more about the community, and join if you feel called over here.

“It’s Not About You” – Why You Need To Channel Your Creative Ideas From Source

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“It’s not about you.”

These are the words I heard in my head this morning as I was preparing for my morning meditation/yoga/prayer – and I instantly knew it was about the More Than A Meatsuit Community.

I also knew it was an intuitive download/message and not a “thought.” (There’s always a difference in how those things feel, you start to recognize it after a while.)

It’s not about me.

Creating this community is about you. It’s about whoever needs it – whoever connects with my particular way of speaking about spiritual practice, personal (spiritual) growth, and meditation.

It’s about whoever connects with my energy.

And the same is true for you, with whatever you create/teach/share/care to talk about in your life.

We forget this alllll the time – because our “ego” wants us to – makes it easy for us to forget – but whatever you CREATE in the world (art, music, business, healing, teaching, sharing, expressing yourself, your actual entire life) it’s not about YOU.

It’s about the universe (everything we all are/connected to) expressing itself in a particular way THROUGH you. And it’s about whoever (including yourself) is touched by that.

It’s about expression + expansion, growth + creativity, but it’s not about “you” in the sense you generally think of “yourself.”

Your identity, your worth, the meaning you give things and the stories you tell about yourself and your life and how you see the world.

Whatever you create just wants to come THROUGH you (actually it wants to come through SOMEONE – if you’re open and available you get the honour 😉), and it wants to be seen by those who need to see and experience what you’re creating.

Which brings me back to my downloaded message this morning: it’s not about me.

I’ve had this guidance for A WHILE now (like, going on 5 years if I’m totally real), to create an online community (that may indeed turn into an IRL, offline community one day!) that is about supporting you in deepening a “spiritual” practice that has real, practical tools for + effects in your daily life. That’s about connecting you to the part of you that is “more than a meatsuit” to increase the meaning and enjoyment you feel in life.

It’s about connecting you to source, the universe, the quantum field – whatever you want to call it.

And it’s also about connecting you to a community of other humans on this same journey of remember, healing, and growing – because we go further together (and have more fun along the way!)

This community is called “More Than A Meatsuit” because that’s what you are – and because we love a lol around here 😉

It’s about a group coming together in support + accountability to keep our personal practices + growth as a priority in our lives – because when you don’t have others on the path with you, it’s easy to procrastinate, find 1000 other things to do first, and forget that connecting to yourself (the meatsuit + non-meatsuit parts of you), and giving energy to a spiritual practice is something you want to prioritize in life.

In eastern spiritual traditions they call this the “sangha,” and it’s equally as important as the teachings themselves. Support and community is EVERYTHING.

I’m here to bring us together, to share practices, tools, teachings, and meditations I’ve learned and found useful in my own journey of becoming more than a meatsuit (hehe).

But most importantly, this is about YOU saying yes to YOU – to all parts of you.

When you do, life gets more magical, and the practical and non-spiritual gets easier (though you’ll start to see there really is no “non-spiritual” – it’s a trick 😉)

Decisions, relationships, anxiety, stress, feeling overwhelmed by all the shit in the world and everything you (we) have to do – when you connect more fully with your intuition, with the non-physical, when you spend more time aware and present in the now – all of the material stuff flows easier, and seems a bit less heavy and serious.

You can stop overthinking and second-guessing and wondering if you’ve done the “right” thing.

When you connect to intuition it’s easier to determine what feels “right” for you – and you’ll also release the need to never make a “mistake,” anyway.

There’s A LOT we will be working on together – and you’ll have input to let me know what you’d like to learn and practice with as we go along.

Each month will have a theme. You’ll get a guided meditation, workbook with journaling prompts (my fave practice after meditation tbh), reflections, resources, and practical tools for daily life.

This is a merging of the woo and the practical, just like we are all a merging of the physical and non-physical (meatsuits + more, lol.)

If you want to join us – we’re here for you. I’m here for you – but it’s not about me 😉

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How to stop letting other people’s energy drain you

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Your resistance to something “negative” is what actually drains your energy in a situation – cue: brain ‘splodey emoji!

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We just started “Raise Your Vibration” month in my More Than A Meatsuit membership community, and along with my members I’ve been paying eeeeeextra close attention to how I FEEL throughout my day.

Paying attention to what affects my energy levels and my “vibes.” To the people, places, and situations I think feel “low vibe” or draining to me.

And it’s been enlightening AF.

Because here’s the thing: when you start to pay attention to how you feel, and prioritize feeling GOOD, and energized, and high vibe, and value your ability to bounce back from the things that do drag you down….you also start to realize how important it IS to feel good. How, well, GOOD it feels to be energized and present and tuned in.

And so you also get reeeeeeeally curious about what’s going on when you’re NOT feeling tuned in, tapped in, turned on (in the vortex, as Abraham Hicks would say.)

The thing about being able to “manage” your energy and mood is that it’s 100% about being able to “manage” your reactions to external and internal circumstances in your life.

Do you let a habitual thought you tend to have affect and essentially control how your day goes?

Do you let what someone says or does around you decide whether you feel hopeful, discouraged, or have the energy to do what you want/need to do today?

That’s what “raising your vibration” is really about – being present and aware to circumstances AND having the tools to live through those circumstances without them rocking (or destroying) your boat for too long.

It’s about keeping you mind and energy clear, and present enough to know when you’re getting caught in a loop of negative thoughts/beliefs/reactions or bad “habits” that hold down your natural positive vibe (which we all have, btw – I shared a whole analogy yesterday in the group about how “bad vibes” are just like a lil bit of shmutz on your cosmic glasses, but you might have to join us to hear all of that one 😂)

I’ve had a few interesting conversations in this realm with friends over the part 24hrs, and I’m realizing that SO MUCH of getting caught in those negative loops that can bring our energy + vibe down is about resistance.

It’s about us deciding that we don’t like whatever has happened, and that we would like to experience less of it thank you very much – and that energy of pushing something away, ironically, stops us from releasing the “negative” thought or feeling that is holding our vibe down.

Chatting with a friend earlier, she expressed how she felt she’s been expending too much of her own energy on problems at her new job, including thinking about them on her days off. Even in meditation, while trying to chill and tune in, she felt this dark cloud of worries hanging over her head and once we talked through it she realized it was because she wasn’t letting the worries be fully heard.

And this made me think of how we can let “low vibe” thoughts or feelings or situations drain our energy.

So…how to stop them from draining your energy?

Counterintuitively, let them be fully seen and heard to be released.

My friend was reminded of a practice an old therapist taught her, of scheduling “worry time” in the calendar – and it’s just so silly that I love it!

You don’t have to actually “schedule” (or you can – to me just the idea of actively giving that time to worries makes a lot of them dissipate because hello – NOT actually worth my valuable scheduled time), but if you find yourself being weighed down by something that’s totally harshing your vibe – pause for a minute and let it be fully seen and heard.

You can ask what it wants you to know, if there’s a lesson to be had, or you can just witness it and then say “thank u, next” and move on to a vibe-raising activity.

I know for me, I was feeling a bit weighed down over the last few days by what I classified as “negative” and “heavy” energy from someone in my life, and when I took a moment to see what was really going on there what surfaced was the thought that I was afraid that her “bad vibes” would affect mine and drain my energy so I was resisting spending time with her.

It was a total “but duh” moment for me, where I got to see that it wasn’t HER vibe so much as it was me doubting the resilience of my own vibe that was causing this energy draining sitch!

And then the obvious choice was to engage with her as much as felt good, with some curiosity instead of judgement, and then go and take care of myself by tapping, meditating, and doing some yoga with a sweet summer playlist afterwards.

I wanted to share this with you guys today because that reframe of not resisting what I’m judging as “negative” or “heavy” or “low vibe” really turned my energy around and I figured it might be helpful to you too!

The one caveat here is of course that if someone is doing something that is TRULY harmful to you, you don’t have to put yourself in their path – but you CAN still work with what goes on inside your own mind that makes you feel bad about the situation to the best of your ability to process it. Remember – resentment is like drinking poison and hoping the other person will die 💀😳

It’s only been 3 days of our “Raise Your Vibration” month inside the More Than A Meatsuit membership, and the revelations and vibe-raising from the guided meditation and EFT routine have been JUICY. 

We have 3 ½ more weeks of this topic, with 3 more weekly practices to add to our toolbox along with the high vibe meditation and EFT routine – and I would LOVE to welcome you into the group with us if you feel called!!

I’m so in love with all of the members, and their commitment to living with intention and good vibes on this wacky spiritual journey that is life is so inspiring.


Check out allllllllll the details of what you get and how it works over here – and lemme know if you have any q’s!

How (and why) you want to connect with your Higher Self ASAP

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I’ve been talking a lot lately about “connecting with your higher self” and today I wanted to share a bit with you about what that even MEANS, and a quick way you can know if you’ve already made that connection (you probably have at some point!) and how to easily do so whenever you need a boost of clarity, guidance, creativity, or to feel connected to something other than your monkey mind and material world (which can get real old and real stressful, am I right?!)

Here’s how I see it:

There’s the material, “meatsuit” part of us that is our bodies, the thoughts we think, things we believe, and feelings we feel. This is the part of us necessary to be alive on earth right now…but it’s also the part of us that can cause a lot of unnecessary stress, suffering, and confusion. It’s the part of us that has “bad habits” like scrolling on social media when we would be better off working, or even just reading a book. It’s the part of us that wreaks havoc by overthinking and second-guessing ourselves so we procrastinate taking action towards our dreams. It’s the part of us that can want to lash out, and say all the wrong things when someone rubs us the wrong way.

When you “overthink” something, or try to “think your way out of a problem,” or heck – when you even HAVE a problem (“I don’t know what to do next,” “there isn’t enough time,” “I don’t have enough money”) that is you living in your material, earth-bound self.

But there’s another part of you.

There’s your “higher self,” the part of you that can observe all the thoughts, beliefs, and feelings in a slightly removed way.

This part of you tends to just know things. It can guide you to the right place at the right time, channel ideas and information in a “flow” state that will help you know exactly what to do next without having to write a pro/con list (unless THAT brings you joy + puts you in a flow state – in which case, go for it!)

If you want to never have to feel “confused” ever again, if you want access to answers and information about your life that feel easy, if you want to worry less about whether or not you’ve done the right thing, or “done enough” to “get what you want,” if you want your creative work to flow, and to experience badass right-place-right-time synchronicities on the regular – you want to practice connecting to your higher self on purpose. Regularly.

Most of us get glimpses of this connection at times without even trying.

It’s when you just know something – and it leads you somewhere amazing (eg to move somewhere, reach out to someone, try a new thing, etc.)

It’s when you turn down a different street than usual, and avoid a traffic jam or worse.

It’s when you think of a friend, and then they message or call you out of the blue.

It’s seeing repeating numbers or letters on clocks, license plates, or signs.

It’s the idea for your next project that just pops in your head out of nowhere, and feels like inspired genius.

It feels good. It feels right. It’s the absence of worry, and the spike in energy that goes with it.

If you’ve ever heard someone talk about being in “alignment” – that’s what connecting more fully to your higher self is.

It feels fantastic.

So how do you connect with your higher self?

  • You can meditate, and get familiar with the feeling of just observing your thoughts, feelings, and life
  • You can free write in a journal, and ask yourself questions – when the answers to those questions just flow and they feel good, and positive, and a little bit exciting – that’s your higher self coming through
  • In your meditation, you can place your hand on your heart and ask yourself simple questions like “what do I need to know about xyz right now?” or “what do I need to let go of to move forward?”

Because here’s the thing – connecting with your “higher self” isn’t some complicated mystical practice that takes loads of time to learn.

It’s literally you – it’s the built-in access you always have to universal source energy, and wisdom. It just takes a bit of practice in observing, and listening to get used to how you will most easily make this connection. You may “hear” guidance like a voice, you may have a strong feeling that something is true, you may communicate with this part of you through writing, or through another creating practice – but you can always connect with a few quiet moments and the intention to do so.

And I promise you that the rewards are more valuable than you can imagine.

In my More Than A Meatsuit Community last month we spent the whole month practicing strengthening this connection, and one of my favourite comments from a member at the end of the 4 weeks was that she realized she was so much more powerful than she ever realized, and now has more confidence in her creations and in her ability to “channel” creative inspiration.

This is all available to you, when you listen to yourself.

You can download my free, 15-minute Higher Self Guided Meditation below, to practice making this connecting, asking your higher self questions, and receiving instant guidance!