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Your Higher Self
This is a visualization / meditation exercise for communicating with your subconscious mind (or your higher self, spiritual guides, a higher power, or whatever seems right for you). Feel free to adapt the structure to fit into your current belief system.
Wouldn’t it be great if your subconscious mind could leave you messages the same way someone might leave you a message on voicemail? How valuable would it be to receive a direct message from your subconscious or higher self? What if you could not only get a message but have a back-and-forth conversation with your subconscious mind?
You can do this lying down or in a comfortable chair. Possibly at night before you go to sleep when you won’t be interrupted. It can help prepare for sleep, and interesting dreams.
Close your eyes and relax.
Imagine you are walking into a lift and the doors closes.
You are on the 21st floor, and you are on your way down. See the numbered display on the panel above the lift doors, and notice that the light for the 21st floor is lit. Now you are going down in the lift, and you see the light for the 20th floor come on.
Breathe deeply in between floors.
Next you see “19″ and so on. Feel the lift motion as you go down, see the numbered lights counting down, and count them in your mind as you breathe deeply once or twice in between floors.
When you reach the ground floor, the doors open. Step out.
Now you see a staircase, going down.
There are exactly 21 steps. Imagine yourself walking down the staircase, but pause for a moment on each step, and take a deep breath before stepping down to the next one. Count in your mind, and really feel yourself walking down the stairs. When you reach “0″ you are at the bottom of the staircase.
Now you see a door that is slightly ajar.
You walk towards it, open it, and see a brightly lit corridor with dozens of closed doors ahead of you.
A guardian is standing there, and you ask him or her to lead you to “your room”. Imagine you are being led down the corridor to your room. Open the door.
What you see inside as you step into your room is entirely up to you and your imagination. Explore the room and take note of what you see there. Is it cluttered or neat? Is it minimal or cosy? Does it look modern or traditional? Is there furniture or is it bare? Whatever you see is perfectly fine. Just notice what you notice.
Find a place to sit down and ask to speak to your subconscious, or your higher self. See who turns up.
Have a conversation with them and ask them what they want you to know. Then listen.
When you are finished, thank them and leave your room. Make sure you close the door.
Retrace your steps to the staircase and climb it, counting up from 1 to 21. Then step into the lift and do the same as you did coming down, in reverse order this time, counting up from 0 to 21 and step out. That’s it!
That is the set-up. Later you can go back to your room any time and talk to whoever you find there.
Then why not experiment? Possibly the next time you go to your room, there might be a blackboard: on that blackboard might be a written message from your higher self. Perhaps in your room there is an answering machine, and you simply need to press play to hear the message. Or perhaps when you enter your room a phone is ringing, and you answer it and hear your message on the other end. Come up with a way for your subconscious or higher self to leave you messages that you can check when you don’t want to have a lengthy conversation.
You can use this method to get clarity on a problem by asking a specific question, then going into your room and seeing your answer on the blackboard, or hearing it on your ‘virtual’ answering machine.
You could also try asking the corridor guardian to take you to someone else’s room (perhaps a spouse or family member) and meet their higher self! See what happens and what their room looks like to you!
You can redecorate or make any changes to your room you like. If it’s cluttered, sort it out! You might find your life starts getting ‘sorted’ too.
The insights on this journey can be extraordinary. The dreams you have afterwards may also be a little more clear than usual. Pay attention to them and what they might be trying to tell you. And the next time you’re feeling unsettled or unclear about something in your life, get in touch with your higher-self, and just go to your room!
© Jeff Turner
