An Introduction To Your Great Ocean of Divinity
Every author has their own way of describing the two characters that shape you who are. Traditional and most popular are the two phrases Higher Self and Lower Self. The higher self is used to describe the highest potential we can all reach (also a gentle name for saying God without saying God!) Your lower self is described as the part of you that worries, believes in lack, keeps you stuck, makes you angry etc etc
Our journey is to allow our life to be so heavily influenced by our higher self that we live out our full potential but the reality is that the majority of us live listening to the voice of our lower self.
I don’t believe we need to get rid of our lower self because that would be to forget who we are and would not allow us to become whole and complete. Instead we have to learn how to work with, worth through, move past that lower self and into our higher self way of thinking to experience true masterary.
One of my biggest lower self activities that I take part in is to worry and doubt. It’s easy for me to drag myself into worry and doubt until the people around me remind me of what I am doing and I move myself into self-belief and trust/faith (which is why it is so very important to have a circle of friends that empower you.) Its never my aim to get rid of anything but to observe it, become aware of it and work through it.
I am still “painfully shy” – it’s a childhood thing. I live life inside of myself and even when I am enjoying myself it will happen internally and you will never know. I had to become aware of that and choose firstly to drop the shy label and talk to people and secondly to remember to share what’s going on inside with people around me. Triggers for me are when people say “you’re quiet are you alright?” or if I am with someone who doesn’t believe I am having a good time (which happens alot with men I just meet!!!) Once they understand that me going internal means I am actually having ALOT of fun they don’t worry so much 
To meet me now you would never believe that I am “painfully shy” because that part of me just isn’t that alive anymore. I learnt how to talk even when I felt shy. I learnt how to raise my voice to hold a conversation and then to speak to a room full of people even when i was shaking like a leaf….
I learnt to work around, work with and work through my shyness so that I could end up where I am today. I refused to let my lower self keep me in a position of being scared of people and I did something about it. Are you ready to do something about it?
I often refer to myself as insecure with moments of brilliance for that very reason.
Once you begin to grow your awareness of what your lower self does and says to keep you stuck you will find your life transforming into what you want it to become. If you think you are ugly and you change that conversation you will see the beauty that exists within you and also in your features/face. If you think you are hopeless and your lower self keeps you in that conversation you will soon be able to see just how amazing you are as you achieve things, get things done and work through whatever keeps you limited.
The biggest gift I gave myself was to give up calling this divine part of myself my Higher Self and begin to recognize it as God. This divine energy that surrounds us like the air we breath is available for us at all times all we have to do is choose it. Access to God is available by believing in His son Jesus Christ. But hey… if that’s all a little heavy for you don’t worry. Continue with Higher Self because remember that’s my journey and not yours.
To help a little though I will call the Higher Self your Great Ocean of Divinity (or G.O.D.) and the Lower Self Everyones Godless Omen (or E.G.O.!) so get used to those two phrases on this blog!
I just love the imagine that comes to mind when you think about how never ending the ocean is so if it’s a great ocean it is truly HUGE! To have all that divinity waiting to be found…. what becomes possible? Greatness of course!
It’s my job to take you on a journey to discover yours but only if you want to!
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I write on this self development blog about building self confidence, being purpose driven and being altogether fabulous. I write especially for women over forty but all women are welcome.
Wow.. great article Dianne. I too was extremely shy as a teenager, the God took me into the ministry, experiencing God was a lifechange, radical at that and a change from the inside out. It was more than just belief, it was transformation, all the more so because I told my friends I didnt want this stuff. but God for me was well just ‘wow.’ Anyway thanks for sharing your heart. I such a quality that makes your input, sincere and valuable.