Written by Lauren, Psycheintuitive.com, November 20, 2014 – http://tinyurl.com/n57vjqn

Hello. My name is Lauren and I am a Higher Self channel. 

Being a Higher Self channel was something that came into my life, probably as a bigger surprise to me than to any person reading this article. You’ll just have to trust me when I say that I had never heard of it or even imagined it, and that the first time I encountered someone doing it, I felt a mixture of fascination and extreme skepticism.

The first time I channelled Andrea (my HS) for someone else, I was again fascinated, skeptical and also hugely resistant. The process of understanding and embracing this part of myself has been a fluid and flowing spiral that has taken years.

I’m truly thankful to the special people I have met in my life who encouraged me, supported me and had a stronger understanding of the importance of accepting this part of myself than I did.

Though I talk about the concepts of Higher Self and HS channelling regularly with my private clients and students, it was not until recently that I sat down to try to verbalise the “who, what, how, and why”. I hope to be able to relate some of the understandings I have come to over the years, and possibly provide some clarification for those who are wondering just exactly what a Higher Self and a HS channel are.

What is a Higher Self?

A Higher Self is the higher dimensional aspect of you. We live in a multi-dimensional universe, and all of us are participating and interacting with multiple dimensions all the time. Our physical bodies are our third dimensional representation at a soul level. However, our souls are also expressing themselves and interacting with many other dimensions simultaneously. Some people, such as myself, have awareness of our multi-dimensionality and regularly interact with it. We all have that potential, depending on how much time and attention we want to give it.

A HS is energy, or a vibration, as they do not have a physical form in the upper dimensions. For clarity, we often refer to our HS as a person with a name, gender and appearance. I for example refer to my HS as Andrea. Andrea is a frequency, not a female form. It is just easier for me to give that energy a name.

All people have a Higher Self, even if they have never had any contact with them. All incarnated souls are here as part of our multi-verse. Our Higher Self represents the part of us that has access to higher dimensions, higher frequencies and higher vibrations.

By working to heal our woulds and open our hearts – we can have more and more contact with the energy of our Higher Self. The HS is there to provide us with guidance towards our development (which is not always the same thing as what we “want”) and to help us have information and healing from the view of the “bigger picture” (of our life, our soul path and the collective experience), when and as we are able to receive it.

The HS does not judge, take sides or aim to punish. The HS comes from a place of very pure love, and their approach is always a loving one – albeit direct. HS energy does not mince words, beat around the bush, bargain with or “give advice”. What they do is present their perspective, share their vibration and prompt us to ask our own questions and enjoy the process of discovering our own answers.

Anyone claiming to be a HS channel who is giving direct advice or passing judgement – is quite likely not channeling their HS, but rather an aspect of their own ego that is asking to be released and healed. More about this below.

Why do we have a HS?

Part of the human experience is to have a physical body in the third dimension, a dimension that is built around duality. Duality serves a very important purpose – it allows us to look at both sides or extremes of any topic or issue and search within for the balance and harmony between the two. In a sense – it’s a very powerful way to self-calibrate and heal, for those willing to take the challenge of honestly looking at their triggers and intense emotions.

The Fourth dimension is the dimension of emotionality. Our physical bodies in the third dimension actually open up, receive and experience emotions and thoughts from the realm of the fourth dimension – and then process them through duality and work to integrate them into harmony. The HS energy exists in the upper Fifth dimension and beyond. They remain outside of physicality, duality and extreme emotionality.

They only exist in the vibration of Love. Our ability to work through our own duality and connect with them – helps us to lift our own vibrations, past the emotionality of the fourth dimension and into harmony and love. We can only do this when we work through the wounding in our own hearts and choose the path of courageously accepting all parts of ourselves in Love. When we do this, the voice of our HS becomes more clear – and we can have access to their wisdom and support.

What is a HS channel?

A HS channel, in reality, is both a common and a rare thing. ALL of us have moments of ego-lessness, moments of pure love and clarity, moments where we know (not believe, but know) with absolute conviction what the loving thing is to do. Those moments are when we hear the voice or vibration of our HS speaking to us.

Someone who works as a HS channel, is a person who is able to access their connection with their HS at specific times and facilitate the messages of their HS to themselves and/or others.

The process of being able to work as a HS channel is not an easy one – as those who channel also have the attributes of other humans of course! i.e. an ego, their own wounds and imperfections to process and heal. Each time they open up to channel their HS, they also open up to any wounding in themselves to be brought to the surface.

Those who channel and start to preach, lecture, give advice or have extreme ideas come to the surface, are channeling messages that are either based in their own ego and coming up for healing, or messages from their HS (which is an aspect of them) asking them to pay attention to a particular issue that needs healing in their own life.

This is not to say that it might not also be a relevant issue to the person(s) they are channeling too, but it’s important to be clear that human channels have human issues – they are not a superior type of human who is “perfect” or without their own healing to do. And those who ignore or reject their own healing, will inevitably corrupt their channel and spend a lot of time repeating beliefs in their own ego – and not so much the HS vibration.

The ability to be a consistent HS channel involves rigorous and ongoing personal healing, a huge amount of work with healing and integrating the inner child and the ability to be comfortable with regularly having their own wounding exposed. Those who actively pursue this path do it out of love and dedication – for themselves and for the opportunity to share their healing path and gifts with others who might then become a part of their collective healing experience.

It is not done out of a motivation for fame or fortune. Or…if it is….it will pretty quickly self combust. Truth and honesty have a certain vibration which can be easily perceived by those with discernment.

Ultimately, I view HS channelling as a healing modality of great significance; great, because it offers healing not only to the channellers themselves, but to those they channel for and the opportunity to co-create collective healing. In a time when the overly-relied-upon paradigms and beliefs of what we understand of the third dimension are no longer serving us, working with the vibrations and intelligence of Love that the HS frequency offers us is a valuable and timely gift.

WIth Love,

Lauren