How to Align With Your Higher Self

Once a person learns to listen to their intuition, they need to avoid the trap of simply waiting to be “told” what to do in life. While intuitive guidance can be a great tool for discerning what you should do, it becomes even more powerful when it is used in combination with taking consistent action. In fact, intuition and action are meant to work together to help you pinpoint what your Higher Self is calling you to do. To show you how these two can work together, let me use an analogy. Remember the hot and cold game you used to play as a kid? Someone would hide an object, such as a pen, and you would try to find it. Whenever you got closer to where it was hidden, they’d say you’re getting warmer. When you veered from its hiding place, they’d say you’re getting colder. Eventually, you’d get “red hot” and would find the hidden object.

I believe God or Spirit is really playing the hot and cold game with each of us. God — or the universe — is continually sending us both intuitive and external messages as to whether we’re in alignment with our Higher Self. There are two ways such messages are communicated to us. The first way we can know if we’re on the right path is by listening to our intuition. If, upon asking for internal guidance we sense that something feels right or true, that’s a message that we’re getting “warmer.” On the other hand, when something doesn’t feel right, or is somehow unclear, that means we’re getting cooler. It’s time to re-evaluate the direction in which we’re going.