know yourself

The lower self. In order for your spirit to fly free it must be completely unhindered by all forms of layers, masks, unconscious, and subconscious desires and actions. Your lower self is the part of you that you hide because you’re ashamed of it. The part of you hide because of your weaknesses—weaknesses that we all possess to each person’s own individual degree. Your lower self hates change. It’s lazy. It’s proud. It’s selfish. And it’s ignorant. Now don’t take offense, my sweet children. This part of ourselves lives inside each and every one of us. And our ideal state is to be free of this part of ourselves.

But how to do that?

The will of your lower self is so so so very strong. And it even can pout when it doesn’t get what it wants. Like a tantruming child. It needs boundaries. It needs love. And so, my children, you must learn to love this part of yourself. These feelings that arise from this deeper, unhealed, unawake part of you are what attract those same parts in spirits to you—or other toxic people to you. It’s not as simple as achieving this massive state of knowing-ness and being able to harness that information and heal and move to enlightenment. No. It takes a certain kind of development for the higher self to be free of the lower self motives—otherwise the effects can cause great distress or even emotional sickness in the human body.

Selfish desires that are sought after, but because you refuse to see it as a selfish request (either because you haven’t yet learned from that experience or you have yet to see a greater perspective of the situation) and you may begin to rationalize to yourself—convince yourself that what you’re asking or seeking is in fact not a selfish request. Tricking yourself. But really, hurting yourself.

The practice of eliminating these behaviors can be quite difficult. Especially when masks come into play. Masks being the personas or presenting faces you put forth in the world to allow others to see you differently than you truly are—which include all those unsavory bits and pieces of your nature. By purposefully living and speaking as though you are unselfish, you can convince that to others…and (in a not so permanent way) you “convince” yourself too. This disturbs your lower self and your natural feelings that are arising. So you are acting one way outwardly but feeling a completely different way inside. You are at war with yourself.

And it’s not like once you’ve learned, and incorporated, all these dark and “sinister” parts of yourself that you’re good to go. The higher self can still be tainted by these desires and motives until they are free.

Remember my sweet ones that you are both light and dark. You must not just know about your darkness. Your fear, your anger and aggression, your jealously, your shame, your hatred—it’s not just enough to know of them. It’s not even enough to know and then talk about them. my sweet children you must learn to LOVE those parts of you as well. Meeting these lower vibrations. Embracing them. Truly embracing them, and using your “weaknesses” as a source of energy to fuel your constant progression in widening your perspective wider and wider to see more than what’s just peaking through your blinders.

Integration isn’t just about healing. It’s also a practice to incorporate those parts you’ve welcomed back. And it’s a realization to see that you are someone with this selfishness running through your blood. You are both dark and light. There must be a balance. What needs to change is your course of action and response to these lower vibrational stimuli. Yes you are a selfish child, but what will you do with that. How is it that the selfishness, or the anger living inside you feed you? What is it you are missing? What is it that you do not have? What is it that you are not being heard when you speak?

All of these things from our lower selves beg us for a deeper connection both with ourselves, but also with our universe. OR your god of choice if you feel called to it. A deeper connection to something so much bigger than we are. So much more than just yourself here having this “human experience.”

It’s not smart nor helpful to believe that they can simply ignore these parts of their nature, and trick themselves into thinking that they’re simply not these lower self manifestations. This only clouds your higher self goings on—it bleeds into other things—even your physical body…causing illnesses and other painful ailments in severe cases. And when that becomes your new habit, that is for certain something much more complicated, and much more corrupted, to try and remove and press forward from.

So you must learn to take your “bad” with your “good.” You must learn to find what it is you need deeper than just your rising emotions. And you must learn to meet yourself with a deep love and neutrality—no easy task. Not even in the slightest. But true acceptance of those deep and almost child-like feelings, and actions, can begin to turn and change the flow of your emotional ocean—so stop rowing against your current. Each and every one of us is plagued with these emotions and feelings of anger, defeat, despair, jealousy…no one person in your life, on the Earth, is free of them. This is why you are here. It’s through coming to terms with what those emotions and triggers are trying to get you to see and understand—to widen your minds eye and perception…your perspective over what is happening before you. Changing your response to shatter your masks on the floor. To reveal those deep lower self parts. And not let that shame rule and take control of what you are all truly meant to become.

Do not submit your own power to your own self out of fear from others. Do not submit your own power to your own self because you’re afraid of how you will look. Do not submit your own power to your own self because you don’t want to be judged. Because, my sweet children, you are already judging yourselves when you do this. And any judgement you place upon yourself will always be more impactful—bear more weight on your soul than what someone else places on you.

Harness that rampant energy—take hold of the reigns. When something begins to trigger those deep and hateful emotions, bad memories, reoccurring patterns, say, “NO!” Take a deep breath and ask yourself, “what do I need?” Be brave and be honest with yourself. Because you’re the only one who has to know you’re struggling to come to the answer. But that struggle, that climb, to move up towards freeing your true nature, your higher self, from those lower vibe restraints can be empowering. Maybe not at first, as is true with all hard changes…breaking sometimes life-long habits can pose a challenge. But you are not obligated nor required to be any one person that you do not wish to be. You can change your mind. You can take a different path.

Being strong enough to know in your heart your soul is battling against your words or actions coming from your mouth, even though it’s what people need to hear or need to believe about you. What is it YOU need? What is it YOU need to believe about yourself?

Your life is about no one else but you. No one else matters in your life but you. And at the end of your life, you have yourself to judge your end of life actions. You control if you go through your door to your afterlife or if you decide to stay here on Earth. You always have more control than you believe. And you “haven’t always been this way” …nor can you “never change.” If you don’t know how to be yourself without the things that make you “who you are” to others—how will you make it through this life you’ve chosen to come and live? Why are you allowing yourself to be defined by how others need to see you? Perceive you? Fit you into a mold or a box?

The lower self, like children, wants boundaries. It does not like to be ignored. No problem ever goes away until it has taught you all you need to know. And maybe it’s that you just don’t value your own opinion of yourself enough to take that hard look at this part of you. But my dear ones, I love you that much. And each of your values far outweighs any weight you’re carrying for yourself. You all deserve to be free of those shackles of deep and low vibrational patterning.

Allow yourself the space to make mistakes. Allow yourself the space to own all that you are. And allow yourself the space to shake hands, make peace with all that you are, so that you can help others to do the same.