baby duck:
meditating is the key.  using hemi-sync helps too.  I was swimming when it first happened to me.  But I'd been doing a regular meditation dialy for some weekes before that.
What is your current daily practice?

gordon






baby_duck wrote on Jun 9^th, 2008 at 7:08pm:

Hi Baby Duck,

First off, you are already connected to your higher self because you are your higher self and if you were not connected, you would not be.
So to consciously connect or what some would call communicate with your real self, meditate, meditate, meditate.  If you don't know how, OSHO has the best book that I have found on meditation.
Keep it up and eventually it will happen if you are ready.  If you desire to, you must be ready.
It will be more than obvious when it happens.
When it happened to me, I did not even know I had a higher self and thought it was some sort of god.  (which it is, or I am)
Bright lights, symbols, colors, pictures, ecstasy, all sorts of marvelous, wonderful, things can happen; you will never be the same.
With me though, I don't have as much communication now as I'd like.  If I get emotionally upset over something or down in the dumps, I can feel cut off.

I believe we all connect with our innermost being, or higher self, on a nightly basis during sleep.  What you want is to bring these experiences into your waking consciousness, to remember this aspect of your self.  

For me, this initially occurred during an OBE to a dimension extremely abstract and nonphysical, where I felt like I was what my higher self would feel like.  During this experience, in whatever dimension I was in, I clearly remember an open telepathic link to what I now realize was my higher self, and a communication between me and this extremely intelligent source which was present nearly the entire experience.  

Recently, I have been DESIRING the conscious connection with my greater being.  Therefore, I have had more conscious experiences with my higher aspect than I was before.  Usually when I have a memory of one of these experiences, it is a series of symbols, the physical translation of the nonphysical experience.      

Most often I will wake up from sleep with the feeling of having just been one with a greater part of my being, yet the details escape me.  The emotions I felt during the experiences, and sometimes even the thoughts I was thinking(I remember some, vaugely), are usually the only thing available.  A feeling of knowing is usually present, there is generally no doubt in my mind that I was just having an experience with my inner self, by my inner self I should say.  Of course, this occurs with no effort.

I soon plan on making a daily meditation schedule for myself, where I plan on going farther into my consciousness than I have been before and creating a relationship with my higher self.  

I expanded my consciousness to reach my inner self just last week.  It actually was not difficult, although I realize it may seem like an impossible task.  The most important thing to do is desire.  You should really want this.  Your higher self will know this, and therefore bring this into your experience (unless of course you have limiting beliefs about this which will conflict with your progress, such as you may really want to connect with your higher self, yet at the same time you may feel it is impossible to do this, or that you simply don't have the skills necessary.)  Anyone can do this if they belief it can be done.

I just lay in the meditative state, with the intent firmly in place, yet in the back of my mind.  It is best to enter the deepest state possible.  Most likely you will begin to see images, or clips of some kind of event, or sounds.  Think about how these may relate to the task at hand.  I have received symbols of the physical representation of my higher self, this symbolizing to me an experience I was having in an extremely nonphysical realm with my higher self.  It may be helpful to begin an imaginary conversation with your higher self, and see if this leads to actual communication.  Usually I try not to think of anything in particular, and just flow with the experience.  It is very helpful to set affirmations before sleep as well, allowing your dreams to show you this greater aspect of your inner being.

I have felt this ecstasy that you speak of many times, usually while out of body.  It seems like the farther removed I am from the physical dimension, the stronger this emotion is present.  The time I felt this the strongest was the OBE with my higher self.  This may be the result of the awareness of who/what I really am due to the conscious awareness of my higher self at that time.  It is a feeling of extreme, unimaginable love bursting from every pore of your nonphysical body, and a deep knowledge of seemingly everything, or at least everything you need to and should know.

To access your magnetic abilities, simply sleep on a giant magnet every night.  In a week you will become MagnetMan.  I actually know nothing of developing magnetic abilities.