I like the feel of this post. It feels like being acknowledged and given a blessing to follow my heart. I’m looking forward to more advice about how to start hearing my higher self.
I have always felt I had a higher self but the definition you gave was quite fascinating. It’s somewhat different to what I conceived.
I do think of my higher self as being outside me but I hadn’t realised before. I feel we return to a disembodied higher self when we are done having our human embodied experience.
I hadn’t realised I can hear her consciously 😄whilst embodied.
I don’t think I’m too good at this yet, but I do think she has a very powerful role in making it really laborious and hard for me to do anything my heart’s not in!
My parent voices are a mixed bag of pretty awful and powerfully liberating. I didn’t realise that until a few years back when my mum was diagnosed with a terminal illness (she survived!) and I came to assess the parts of me that had come from her influence. She taught me a strong morality of justice and equality from young, in her words at least. I didn’t feel like an equal, I felt mostly like an annoyance, but I received some powerful values that are central to who I am. She also taught me to have faith in human kind and to be generous. Edit! Oh my goodness! I forgot to mention her strongest message is to be honest to a fault! She taught me integrity. ❤️

The saying goes that we learn what our parents are, not what they say ... but I think we learn both. (“Do what I say, not what I do!” Haha)
Sometimes we are learning what they say about us and it has taken a long time for me to let my higher self tell me who I am rather than listen to the doubting voice.

Looking forward to more thought provocation from you @sahana-yoga

Thank you 😊