How Do You Tell The Difference Between Ego/False guidance and Higher Self/True Guidance?

QUESTION:  I have difficulty telling the difference between my intuition and my ego? The voice inside your head ~ how do you know when its your higher self (perhaps your intuition) or your lower self (ego)??How can you see and find the line between these two?? Is there a difference between the higher self and intuition??


How can you tell if your feelings and emotions are ego based or if they come from your higher conscious self ~ especially if they give a sense of need! For example ~ the need to feel appreciated, touched, loved....is that looking for something outside of yourself to make you happy and fulfilled? As we become more enlightened don't we become more expanded and elevated from our human level/human needs?

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There are many questions here so I am going to break them down into sections so I can address each one. 

Q: How do you know when it's your higher self (perhaps your intuition) or your lower self (ego)? I am having difficulty telling the difference between my intuition and my ego? 

A: First of all, I think it is important to understand that the ego is a fragmented, fear ~ filled distortion of our soul's energy. This fragmented part of our soul (the ego) has separated itself from the LIGHT of our higher awareness/higher self.  The ego was created when we decided as a group consciousness to accept the "idea" of perceived separation from God, so we could learn through the use of our FREE WILL. This perceived separation from God/Goddess created fear, and a part of our divine energy broke away from the center/truth of our being. Every thing that has ever happened to us, from the beginning of our soul's existence ~ both good and bad ~ has stemmed from the use of our FREE WILL and these memories are stored within our souls....including wounds and fears from the sometimes traumatic evolution of our experiences with FREE WILL. These life experiences have created belief systems, subconscious programs (feelings, thoughts and emotions held over a long period of time), stored traumatic pain and veils (karma) within our being that literally block us/create barriers within our energy field that hinders us from KNOWING and having a DIRECT EXPERIENCE with our DIVINE ESSENCE ~ which is our true connection to SPIRIT/GOD/GODDESS. 

It is our ego that makes us think we are better than or less than what we truly are. The ego builds us up......and then loves to tears us down. Our ego is constantly responding to our life experiences, and ALL life experiences are created through the FREE WILL use of our energy ~ mainly our thoughts, feelings, emotions and beliefs. "WE" are the ones ~ through our very own FREE WILL~ creating a hell of a life.....or the life of our dreams, and the ego is constantly responding to our creations. And this is the biggest reason why we need to understand the difference between ego and soul/higher self guidance ~ because the ego keeps us in a wheel of repetitive, low vibrational re-creations.... while the aspect of our soul that is connected to the higher self is desperately trying to get us to evolve and transcend the distortions/illusions of the ego so the soul can be brought back into unification with it's higher self so it can create and manifest a reality that is for the highest good of all involved.

Every human being experiences difficulty telling the difference between intuition ~ from the aspect of their soul that is connected to the LIGHT of their higher self ~ and the distorted guidance/illusions from their ego. Simply being aware that we have two internal guide systems working within us....one that is based on fear/control/resistance/illusion, and one that is based on love/highest good/expansion/truth is half the battle. One way to always tell which part of us is speaking is to tune into how LOUD the guidance is. 

~ Soul/Higher Self wisdom is direct, subtle and quite ~ it is based on "feelings" that are in the NOW moment. Feelings, are the language of the soul.....they are core sensations in the body ~ they are not created by the mind. Our body is a field of divine intelligence ~ any discomfort....whether it be emotional, mental or physical is a sign from our soul/higher self that we have stepped out of alignment with our highest guidance. In order to receive clear guidance from our higher aspects we will need to know how to "FEEL". When we shut down our feelings we also shut down our intuitive guidance which comes from the Soul/Higher Self/Spirit that communicates to us through our FEELINGS.....this is how we tap into our intuition and our truth ~ by tapping into the heart felt feelings of the divine aspect of the soul. Without feelings we have no internal guide.

~ The Ego is loud, repetitive and very emotional. It is always working from the illusions of the past or the future.....it is NEVER in the NOW moment. We experience feelings, yet we generate emotions.  Feelings are somewhat passive, while e-motions are re-active. Feelings are not created from the mind ~ they are core sensations in the body ~ while emotions are feelings with many THOUGHTS attached to them. Egoic guidance is full of "reactive mind chatter" and if we are not careful our egoic emotions create KARMA. 

It is best to "feel" our feelings (soul/higher self), but transcend our emotions and reactive behaviors (ego). When we allow ourselves to pause at our feelings, and actually FEEL them we can retrieve information and guidance, that will help us respond from our heart not from the ego's past wounds or the ego's future concerns. In order to follow the highest wisdom for the aspect of our soul that is connected to the LIGHT of our higher self we will need to FEEL our way through the process not think our way through it.

KEY WORDS TO HELP YOU DISCERN WHICH PART OF YOUR BEING YOU ARE WORKING FROM:

SOUL CONNECTED TO THE HIGHER SELF: 

~ Present / NOW Moment / Grounded / Calm

~ Silences The Mind And Tunes Into The Heart

~ "Fully Feeling" The Core Sensations In The Body ~ Intuitive 
     Nudges....Ideas Or Visual Images

~ Observing / Discerning What Feels LIGHT 

~ Addresses Situations From A Grounded, Heart Felt, Honest 
   Place.

~ Conscious And Respectful

~ Expansive

~ Guidance Is Always Loving, Solves Problems, Suggestive & 
    Supportive. 
~ Guidance Is Clear/Short/Precise....Not Full Of What 
    If's......There Is A Sense Of Knowingness.

EGO: PART OF THE SOUL THAT IS FRAGMENTED AND NOT CONNECTED TO THE WISDOM OF THE HIGHER SELF:

~ Fearful / Projects Itself Into The Past Or The Future....Not 
   Present.

~ Intense Mind Chatter

~ Ungrounded / Reactive / Explosive

~ Scattered Energy....Mostly Stuck In The Mental And Emotional 
   Body.

~ Unconscious / Disrespectful / Negative

~ Contracted Energy /Restrictive/Fearful

~ Guidance Is Always A Projection Of Judgment, Blame, & 
   Criticism Towards Self And Others

In order to get the clearest guidance possible, it is helpful to clean out the energy field and chakra system of all the blocks and barriers that the ego has put in place due to lifetimes of the ego being in control of soul. The blocks and barriers (veils) create a clogged up and foggy energy field that distorts clear guidance, blocking the free flowing, loving energy of our higher self from being able to flow through us unadulterated. The more tubes and channels we clean out, the greater sense of intuitive KNOWINGNESS we will experience. My book "Raise Your Vibration" goes over many techniques that will help you clean out your system, and align you with your higher self. BUY RAISE YOUR VIBRATION BOOK HERE

* Guidance from the soul/higher self oftentimes comes when we are not attached to receiving an answer. Pay attention to these times:

1. Immediately when you wake up in the morning.

2. Right before you fall asleep.

3. When you are in the bath or shower.

4. When you are driving.

5. When you are ironing, doing the dishes, cooking, walking, 

     golfing, painting, or any other kind of activity where external 

     stimuli is reduced.    

6. During Meditation

* Do not listen to guidance if you are in the emotional or mental body. Your guidance will always come from the distortions of your FEARS (ego). If your mind chatter is increased, and there is an intensity to the guidance....it is from the ego.

The next part of the question:

Q: How can you tell if your feelings and emotions are ego based or if they come from your higher conscious self ~ especially if they give a sense of need! For example ~ the need to feel appreciated, touched, loved....is that looking for something outside of yourself to make you happy and fulfilled? As we become more enlightened don't we become more expanded and elevated from our human level/human needs?

A: Once again, feelings are from the higher part of our Soul. E-motions are energy in motion and they are not necessarily bad ~ they must be processed through ~ however, if we are not careful, the ego will step in, and become reactive and explosive with our emotions, which oftentimes can create karma. When it comes to a true soul "need"........ that is a very valid request! The human body and the soul do have needs ~ especially love, human touch, communion with other souls and positive relationships ~ as well as ~ food, shelter, clothing, health care etc. Humans do have needs, and we have the responsibility and the power to learn how to use our energy in a constructive, loving, positive, creative way to manifest our hearts desire. 

The problem with a large part of humanity, is our ego's are out of balance, which has created an insatiable desire for more and more things that are not necessarily needed for our soul's growth. The ego is excessive, greedy and competitive and passes judgment on others based on "things." These "things" become distractions that fill a temporary void.....however the void remains, because what the soul truly wants is to be filled by the loving abundance of Spirit, and that abundance can only occur when our tubes and channels within our energetic system ~ that lead to the higher self ~ are cleaned out enough for Spirit to flow through our being. Once this occurs and we merge with our higher self we receive agape love ~ spiritual love....and to be honest with you, that is truly what ALL souls seek.

There is nothing wrong with material things ~ material things can be fun and they certainly make our lives easier...however, we need to be careful with any kind of excess. Materialism must be kept in balance. Likewise, there is nothing wrong with having needs and desires that we receive from others. The soul craves relationship, community and well-being through interaction with other humans. If there is something you are lacking within a specific relationship ~ it is your responsibility to to address it, and ask for what you need in a loving, balanced, constructive way. (not demanding) Everything needs to be kept in balance, so make sure ~ you too ~ are open to supporting other people's needs as well. We are here to learn how to love and support one another. We need each other, and when we truly learn how to love and respect the SELF, it is easy to do the same for others.

So when it comes to material or human relationship needs here are a few questions you can ask yourself:

1. What do I need?

2. Will this "need" serve my soul's growth?

3. Does this "need" serve a purpose?

4. Do I really "need" this OR is this the trick of the ego and it's perceived distortions that are based on the illusion of lack?
5. Will this be for the highest good of all involved?

The more enlightened we become ~ the less we "need" ~ because we are aligned, and fulfilled by Spirit. However, as long as we are in physical body....we will always have needs. When we are aligned with Spirit, our needs are balanced and serve the purpose of assisting us and others on our soul's journey through the physical dimension.
 ~ Sabrina

Chapter 6 Of The "Raise Your Vibration" Book "Connecting To Our Feelings" By: Sabrina Reber

Chapter 6 Of The "Raise Your Vibration" Book "Connecting To Our Feelings"
By: Sabrina Reber

Our feelings contain valuable information and connect us to our intuition and truth. Feelings are the language of the soul! When we suppress our feelings we suppress our connection to our soul. We create filters and barriers between our physical being and our spiritual being interfering with our own source of divine guidance and intelligence that guides us to manifest the best possible outcome in our lives. Our feelings also disclose lessons we need to learn and insight into our souls contract for this lifetime. Each feeling we experience is a repetition of many lifetimes of feelings that get brought to the surface for us to heal. When we disengage ourselves from our feelings we disconnect ourselves from our own internal guide and give our power away to others who like to make our decisions for us. We become powerless and do not trust our own intuition seeking all of our answers and guidance from outside sources. We become “thinkers” not “feelers”. Thinking comes from the mind and always puts us in the past or in the future stripping us from our heart felt connection to the powerful, creative moment of the Now. True power resides in the present moment. When we allow ourselves to feel our present moment feelings we can respond from our heart and not from our past wounds or our future concerns and worries. In order to raise our vibrations and access the truth of our being we will need to “feel” our way through this process not “think” our way through it. 

We have been taught to avoid our feelings and resist allowing them to surface. Negative feelings left unaddressed get stuck in our energy body creating a foggy energy field that lowers our vibration and blocks our intuition. Unprocessed feelings become distortions that also lead to illness and dis-ease. When we ignore our feelings, because we don’t want to feel the pain, we stuff them in our energy fields where they begin to fester. Eventually, our denied feelings move into the physical body and announce themselves as an imbalance, illness, pain, virus or disease. When we are connected to our feelings and allow ourselves to fully process through them so we can release them, we become a clear vessel fully connected to the guidance of our soul and spirit. When we block, stuff or ignore our feelings our body will respond with a pain or symptom and let us know when we are out of alignment with our truth. Feelings are core sensations in the BODY; they are not created out of the MIND. Feelings are felt in the body and they are warning signs for us to acknowledge that something within our being needs to be addressed. The body never lies. It is always giving us warning signs…if we would only listen! We have a pill for every ailment: anxiety, high blood pressure, indigestion, depression even restless leg syndrome. We like to treat the symptom and avoid the root cause of the dis-ease while the body continuously tries to get our attention prompting us to recognize that something within our being needs to be addressed. As Deepak Chopra says, “Divine Intelligence is the spark of life that animates every living cell in the body.” Our body is a field of divine intelligence, energy and divine organization. It is in a constant state of regeneration, therefore, any discomfort whether it be emotional, mental or physical is a sign that our soul is out of alignment with its spiritual self.

Our feelings simply want to be felt and when we step into allowance and allow our feelings to be felt, without placing judgment on them, we can access vital information that can help us shift unhealthy beliefs, recognize repetitive patterns, make better choices and heal our bodies. All we really need to do is allow and honor the process. When we allow ourselves to pause at our feelings instead of ignoring them or leaping forward into our emotions, we put ourselves in a place of power. Become aware of your feelings, retrieve the information they are trying to provide and respond from a place of spiritual understanding instead of reactive ego-based thinking. Unfortunately, many people’s hearts are so closed from years of stored pain that they can no longer feel or experience their feelings and they constantly react from a place of confusion and powerlessness. They believe they are victims of circumstances and are running on autopilot totally disconnected from their spiritual self, the source of divine inner guidance. These people always respond from a place of fear and continue to draw situations to them that evoke the very feeling that needs to be looked at, felt and released.

Remember, we are energetic and physical beings. Our energetic body is very similar to the layers of an onion. When we allow ourselves to feel an old wound or childhood trauma we have stuffed in our energy field the wound will open and we will experience the pain once again. However, it is rising through the many layers of the energy body to be released. Depending on the severity of the trauma, the feeling may need to be experienced several times before it finally rises to the surface for final releasement and healing. All of our negative emotions, feelings and past traumas are toxic matter that must be moved out of our energetic bodies before true healing and a merging with our God self can occur. Oftentimes we get stuck in our story, resist our feelings and emotions and choose not to do the inner work because it can be a painful process. However, true healing is spiritual healing (the healing of the soul) and all lower vibrating toxic debris must be brought to the surface to be released. Allow yourself to feel, so you can heal your wounded feelings. We must process through them, resolve them and release them so we can clear out our emotional body creating a clear vehicle for our soul. If we resist a feeling we hold it to us and it continues to persist. If anger arises, feel it fully, so your anger does not turn into a reactive emotion. Once your anger is felt, you will release it and there will be no need to react in an angry way to every person or situation you interact with for the rest of your day. If someone makes you angry, allow yourself “private” time to go into your anger. Ask your anger questions and retrieve the message it is trying to bring you. Allow yourself to fully feel it, instead of resisting it, so you can set yourself free. After you have felt your anger, you will be able to rationally approach the other person from a non-reactive place. You will be able to speak to them from a place of honesty and integrity shedding light on the situation so it can be resolved and not repeated again in the future. Emotions, feelings, thoughts and beliefs are real things. They are living energy forms naked to the average eye but can be seen by people who are clairvoyant. Just because the majority of humanity cannot see these energy forms does not mean they are not there. What we resist continues to persist in our energetic being and we will continue to magnetize situations into our life that will force us to address all of our unresolved, hidden feelings. 

Once we allow our feelings to rise to the surface to be felt and fully experienced, we can then use our awareness to consciously shift our feelings one vibration, one frequency, one thought and one emotion at a time. It is our responsibility to become aware of our feelings and to recognize that our feelings do affect the whole of humanity. When we become aware of our feelings and fully allow ourselves to experience them, we will dissolve them freeing up areas in our energy body so we can hold more light and a higher vibration. Our higher vibrating energy affects others so not only are we healing ourselves, we are also inspiring others to heal simply by allowing ourselves to raise our vibration. When we are vibrating in the pure high frequencies of joy, gratitude and appreciation we are fully open to our own source of intuitive divine guidance. When we shut down our feelings we also shut down our intuitive guidance because Spirit communicates to us through our feelings. Our feelings are how we tap into our intuition and truth. Without feelings, we have no internal guide. 

• We are each responsible for releasing our own feelings. If we are disconnected from our feelings we will not be able to fully feel, heal and release them. They will get stored in our emotional field and we will end up projecting all of our unprocessed feelings and emotions onto everyone else blaming them for the conditions in our lives. The next time a feeling arises, allow yourself to go as deep into it as you can. Ask yourself, “What am I feeling right now? Is it fear, sadness, helplessness, abandonment, rejection?” Is the feeling I am feeling right now really a present moment feeling or is this a feeling I have not healed from my past? Identify it and allow yourself to fully move through it so it can be released and not projected onto everyone else you come into contact with.
• If we resist a feeling we keep it and it continues to persist. If we allow ourselves to feel it fully, we will let go of it. If anger arises, feel it. Feeling it doesn’t mean expressing anger to someone else….then it becomes an emotion, a reaction. Simply recognize that you are feeling angry. Allow yourself to fully feel your anger and ask your anger what it has to teach you. Continue to feel it until it is gone.
• Examine your life. What feelings have been redundant? What situations do you continue to draw to yourself that evoke a feeling in you that has been stored in your energy field and needs to be looked at so it can be demagnetized and released?
• How do you feel about yourself?  How do you feel about others? Do you see them as an extension of yourself making different choices or do you see them as separate?
• As a child were you allowed to express your feelings and emotions in a healthy way?
• What are your most predominant feelings?

Whatever we are thinking, feeling, saying, or doing, we are co-creating, empowering and magnetizing into our lives.     
Patricia Cota Robles

The pain of all our hurts may be quite intense, but it also softens us and completes itself in the process of being felt.
Susan Thesenga

If you allow all the negative thoughts to come forth into consciousness and the negative feelings to flow with the positive intent to heal yourself, then you will not get stuck in negativity that will harm you. Express the negative feelings with the intention to release them, let them go, and move on beyond them. This will help heal you and you will not get sick.
Barbara Brennan

Normality is the capacity to express your feelings. From the moment that you don’t fear to share your heart, you are a free person.
Paulo Coelho

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