(Info is taken from Orindaben.com)
What Is the Divine Self?
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Orin refers to your Divine Self as the Self that exists at an even higher level than your soul. It is the Divine essence of your being, the source of all light and life within you. Your soul is closer to your personality, and is an intermediary between you and your Divine Self until such time as you are able to directly experience and realize the Divine Self as who you are.
Why Contact Your Divine Self?
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As you open to your Divine Self, you can receive its guidance, peace, harmony, and illuminating light. You can more easily turn away from the distractions of the physical world, and restore yourself in the light, love, and power of this eternal Self.
Through this Self, you can play in the world of all potential and manifest your highest path. This Self will reveal the illusions, desires, and attachments that keep you trapped in a lower vibration and on a lesser path. You gain a greater ability to recognize limiting, disharmonious, and restricting energies and forms. Not only will It reveal these limitations; contact with this Self will enable you to have the power, wisdom, and vision to release these energies.
Your Divine Self is always trying to reach you, to send you the power, illumination, love, and wisdom to draw higher forms, thoughts, feelings, and situations into your life. Your Divine Self is wise; it knows all, and is always showing you an easier, better, more joyful way to live.
Contacting Your Divine Self
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Your Divine Self is always trying to reach you, to send you the illumination, love, and wisdom to live as your Divine Self. You can open to all the gifts that it has for you by consciously making contact with it, opening to it, and asking for Its guidance and assistance. You need to make contact, to open up to, and to have the intention for this to occur. Remember that this Self is who you are, so you are opening to that greater part of yourself.
You do not need to use will power, to struggle, to effort, or to try hard to contact your Divine Self. All you need do is set your intention and open to all the gifts of consciousness that await you as you connect with this innermost Self.
One way to contact your Divine Self is through silence. This connection happens beyond the mind. Because of this you may not feel you have made contact. Your intention to connect with your Divine Self and your receptivity to It are all that are needed to make this connection and to receive Its guidance, energy, and inspiration. It always responds to your call.
1. Start by sitting quietly. Set your intention to make contact with your Divine Self, to open to It and to receive Its energy, love, inspiration, and all the transformation, awareness, and gifts of consciousness It is always offering you.
2. Let go of any thoughts, and imagine that you are infinite intelligence, unconditional love, and all knowing wisdom, looking out through your eyes. Sense the "I" within you that is always present, that which is pure awareness.
3. Let your mind come completely to rest, to a state of inner stillness, with nothing to do or think about, even if just for a moment. Let go of any thoughts about the outer world and go within, asking for your Divine Self to draw you into Itself.
4. You can make the connection to your Divine Self even stronger by having the intention to release any thoughts or beliefs that may be an obstacle to contacting your Divine Self or to receiving Its gifts.
5. If you would like, ask for guidance, an insight, or an answer as you enter into the silence.
6. It is in moments of silence that the Divine Self can impart to you as much of Its wisdom, power, and love that you can receive. Notice what new thoughts you have after these moments of silence, calling upon your Divine Self. Doing this brings more power, love, wisdom, guidance, abundance, and spiritual vision.
7. Afterward, you may receive an inner message (it is fine if this feels like you giving yourself a message). Contact may come through a sense of energy, peace, an inner knowingness, an answer, a deeper breath, or in many other ways. It is fine if you do not have any response you can feel or identify; know that contact has been made simply through your intention to make contact. With this, some insight, extra energy, or inspiration has been imparted to you that will unfold at the perfect time.
You do not have to spend a lot of time doing this meditation; in fact it is very effective to have frequent ten or twenty second meditation periods during the day. Even pausing briefly during a busy day to get quiet and ask for energy or guidance is a wonderful way to deepen contact with your Divine Self.
Some Descriptions and Qualities of the Divine, Eternal Self
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Omnipresent (everywhere at once).
Omnipotent (all powerful).
Omniscient (all-knowing).
Eternal, infinite perfection of being.
Infinite Being, love, and wisdom.
Infinite, endless light.
Self that is free from all attachments and beyond all action.
Self that is constant, unchanging, indestructible, and immutable. Is always the same.
Self that is the observer, the witness of your experience.
Witness of the activities of mind, but not identified with them.
Source of all answers.
A center of consciousness within the One Life.
A center of consciousness in the great ocean of Life.
A center of consciousness upon the surface of the one great "I."
The consciousness of the whole, manifesting through your point or center of consciousness.
Consciousness at rest, no thought.
Note that all words or descriptions of the Divine Self are inadequate; the Self can only be known through a direct experience of It and cannot be known through the rational mind.
Your consciousness gradually expands until it realizes its identity with the Whole. Beneath all forms and names of the visible world, there is to be found One Life–One Power–One Existence–One Reality–ONE.
Clearing Blockages with Your Divine Self
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Your Divine Self is able to break through the limitations of your personality and concepts, and open you to new ways of living and being. Connecting with this Self brings a sense of flow, of moving with the current, and of being on an upward spiral.
Your Divine Self is always with you, guiding you and sending you exactly what energy you need in that moment. Your Divine Self is like a sun that shines eternally. It opens the way to a more spiritual existence. It has many gifts and blessings for you, more than you could even think to ask for.
Your Divine Self has the power to bring about the divine Plan of your life. It brings miracles, synchronicity, and all events and circumstances that are required for your unfoldment.
Your Divine Self can lead you to enlightenment, clear the way, and give you answers. It knows that lack and limitation is an illusion. It holds the blueprint of your perfection, and knows that you are perfect just as you are. Sense the power that you have at your command as the Divine Self–the spiritual power of love, wisdom, and the ability to make things happen.
Using the above process to contact your Divine Self, sit quietly, and open up to your Divine Self. Let your mind come to a state of rest, of stillness, of no thought. In a state of stillness, allow the power, wisdom, love, harmony, and freedom of your Divine Self to flow into you, restoring and revitalizing you.
Ask this Self within you to send you an idea, blessing, wisdom, or answer. Any sincere and earnest call made to the Self will always invoke Its response. Remain open to receive this response. It may come as energy, insights, a path or doorway may open up, a new opportunity may come to you, energy may be withdrawn from one path; you may receive a new vision, understanding, a feeling of peace and harmony; there are ways your Divine Self connects with you that are too numerous to list. Remain open for the response in whatever way it may come to you.
More Suggestions to ask your Divine Self to do for you as you connect with It:
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1.Open your heart, and release any thoughts or feelings that are less than loving to yourself and others
2. Free you from all thoughts and energies that keep you from hearing Its voice, from knowing Its wisdom
3.Release things that are keeping you stuck or unable to move forward in some area of your life
4.Remove doubts or distractions that keep you from your higher path
5.Dissipate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs that stop you from creating a life of beauty, joy, harmony, and peace
6.Dissolve desires and attachments that keep you recreating the past
7.Give you the strength, courage, and power to release any forms or situations that are taking the life out of you
8.Free you from fear–fear of change, of the new, of the unknown, of taking a risk, of being your Divine Self
9.Liberate you from all imprisoning forms that keep you bound to a lesser path and a less joyful life
10.Release all lesser energies within you that are holding you back
11.Take away negative self images, self-criticism, and thoughts that you have been a failure in anything in your life
12.Release illusions or mental concepts that are keeping you from seeing your next steps and higher path
13.Release the cause of any negative circumstance in your life, so that you cannot recreate it
14.Think of anything else and ask! There is nothing your Divine Self cannot do!
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