Is This Possible?

Im gonna paste what this site says, id like to know if this is actually real and not a bunch of trash:



Your higher self is the part of you that has access to all of your subconscious
information and processing power, while simultaneously having full knowledge of
your conscious thoughts, needs and desires. Very often this portion of your own
being will know what path is the best one for you to take at any given time and be
able to lead you through your life in a manner that will help you to grow into the
being you are supposed to be.

Yes, it is still you, and will still be working off of the same base information you
have held within you, but it will generally be the more psychic, wiser and most
stable portion of your being.

The trick to communicating with your higher self is two fold.


First: you need to understand that this part of yourself is still you and don't try to
distance yourself from it. A lot of people expect it to be some large, unknown
thing, but it is very known to you and you have probably had input from it on a
regular basis, without being consciously aware that this was the case, hundreds of
times per year.


Why don't you recognize this when it happens? Simple, your higher self
will sound like your own internal voice, because in part, it is!


Second: When you ask your higher self for advice and it gives you advice that
is different than what you want to do at the moment, in general, follow the advice
of your higher self. You control your actions, but that portion of you has all the
available information. (And possibly a lot more than we are supposed to
consciously know about. This has been hinted at throughout the ages by many
sages and wise men and even in my own communications with my own higher self,
so it seems very likely that this greater than human knowledge, is the state of
things.)

The data given by your higher self will NOT be perfect. What it seems designed to
do is to drive you towards the best life and pattern for you to be in at any given
moment.

As this is normally the best you can do in any given situation, so it is well worth
listening too!


Does your higher self ever foretell the future?


If you ask it to, it will. But the answer you get will be what ever you need to hear in
order to keep you going, change course to a better path or grow as a person. (So
in general, don't try using it to pick lotto numbers!)


Will I be given secret information about how the world/universe/life
works?


Yes! By definition though, you already know all of what you are told by your
higher self though, so even if you are not consciously aware of it, you already
know these secrets.


Here then, is the how-to portion:
(This is safe to do at any time and while practice helps, you should be able to do
this almost instantly.)

Sit quietly and close your eyes. Clear your mind of all thoughts and when
comfortable, ask your higher self to become noticeably present.

How you ask is up to you, but you can use words for this, or pictures or
concepts... Whatever seems best to you.

It may take a moment, and you may even find yourself thinking things like
“one moment” or “be right there”. If so, stay relaxed and wait a few
seconds for your higher self to organize itself properly to communicate
with you.

I don't know why this happens, as it should know you are “coming” to visit with that
part of yourself, being literally you and cognizant of your intentions at any given
moment.

You should then find yourself thinking something that affirms that your
higher mind is present for communications with your on the conscious
level.

If for some reason you don't “hear” this, it is most likely due to holding on to the
idea of separation between you and your higher self. Relax for a bit and start
asking questions and the answers will start to roll in.

Once you ask a question, you will hear yourself answer it. Pay attention to
these answers! They may differ greatly from what you would normally tell
yourself to do.

With practice you will begin to be able to pick out the more unified mental flavor of
your higher self and find that when acting from that plane of being you make far
better decisions that tend to help more people and harm virtually none.

The more interesting the questions, the more interesting the responses will be in
general! (Because just as in any conversation, what you put into it is, in part, what
you get out.)

Have fun with this and use it as a tool to aid in your growth towards whatever it is
you choose to become

I'll bluntly say probably not, but personally I'd give it a go to see if it works!

try and get some results in!

Ehh, sounds like some sorta "Your subconscious is a psychic genius and you just have to unlock it potential!" mumbo jumbo. I don't usually think much of it, but some seem to think it's true.

What site is that, anyway?

I totally forgot! just copy a paragraph and put it into google

It was a pleasure reading this, thank you.

I'd like to think it's possible. Having no experience of my own, of course, I can't say. But it seems more reasonable than the things I've heard about higher selves or dream guides existing outside of yourself, as independent entities. Not to say some people haven't met helpful entities like that, but at that point they aren't your higher self or dream guide. You don't own them, after all. That's beside the point, though. The claims of what you can learn from this may or may not be overblown, but at its core, it's meditation with some inner dialogue thrown in. I can't see how it would be a bad thing to try. Indeed, I've tried myself, but I inner monologue on a regular basis anyway, and I've yet to learn something that would seem to come from a higher part of myself. Telling the difference is the problem for me.

The only problem with this is that what you will often hear is nothing more than the sneaky voice of the ego. To develop a communicative relationship with one's Higher Self takes a lot of meditation. I wasn't able to discriminate between the 'voices' of my Higher Self and my ego until I had accumulated about 3,000 hours of proper meditation.

Yes it is possible. Some people don't like to think that there are parts of themselves that know more than they do consciously but it makes sense. Our brains are organized so we don't have to consciously think about every bit of information that goes on in our heads because it would be overwhelming otherwise. There are lots of memories and thoughts our brain withholds from our consciousness but you could access them with enough practice and meditation. That is were the ideas of higher self and dream guides come from, to act sort of like a bridge between the two parts of our awareness. There are still some interesting questions to be asked though. Its sort of weird to ask but does that mean that our subconscious mind has a consciousness of its own as in it views itself as separate or would the higher self just be a facade in order to communicate with the consciousness in a way we can understand? It all gets quite complicated but we should (literally :P) have an open mind to it.

The thing is, you only know what you know. It can't give you answers about the universe unless you've already learned it. Which really makes no sense for it to tell you something you haven't know. I personally think it's bs.

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Originally Posted by GibsoNorth

The thing is, you only know what you know. It can't give you answers about the universe unless you've already learned it. Which really makes no sense for it to tell you something you haven't know. I personally think it's bs.

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The point is that you know a lot more than you consciously realize. Its like you can't remember what you had for breakfast the previous morning but its right on the tip of your tongue. If something triggers that memory you can remember it again. With these kind of techniques you can trigger anything you memory or bit of information you want as long as its still somewhere in your head and our heads can hold quite a lot of stuff, some of it is perhaps a bit more profound than what you had for breakfast the previous morning.

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Originally Posted by Suck4Luck

Here then, is the how-to portion:
(This is safe to do at any time and while practice helps, you should be able to do
this almost instantly.)

Sit quietly and close your eyes. Clear your mind of all thoughts and when
comfortable, ask your higher self to become noticeably present.

How you ask is up to you, but you can use words for this, or pictures or
concepts... Whatever seems best to you.

It may take a moment, and you may even find yourself thinking things like
“one moment” or “be right there”. If so, stay relaxed and wait a few
seconds for your higher self to organize itself properly to communicate
with you.

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Gosh. All those lamas, shaman, sages, philosophers, priests, seekers, etc etc who blew their entire lives trying to commune with their "higher selves," and this one simple step is all they ever needed to do!

Sorry for the sarcasm, Suck4luck, but, as Mcwillis noted somewhere above, doing something as deep and unusual as communing with your higher self, or seeking transcendental experience, or tapping the knowledge of your unconscious mind, or whatever you want to call it, is a bit more involved than that one single step.

Yes, I believe it is possible, and yes, I believe it is well worth the effort, but I'm guessing that anything you glean from just sitting down for a moment and asking a question would be very much your own waking-consciousness generating things to fulfill your expectations.

The excerpt you listed above reminds me of that awful book, "The Secret," that came out a few years ago, full of awesome rewards for very little effort. Like everything else, you only get from a thing what you put into it, so I don't think this exercise on its own will be too helpful.

That said, I have no problem with the basis for it.... the goal itself is excellent, and one of the things I've been after all my life. I just don't think it comes that easily. And trust me, I do something like this exercise every day as a step in my dream-work routine; unless I'm severely retarded (always possible, I suppose), I think I would be as one with my unconscious by now, or at least in regular conversations!

So I suggest you take it all with a grain of salt.

Oh, and sorry so late to the thread...