Higher Self...Wealthier You! Karen Baines

Jenni loves her 'Highest Self', 'Highest Life' model, but it can seem a bit intimidating until you get right into the nitty-gritty of what it really means, even for me! I never use that vocabulary, but we are both talking about the beauty of alignment in creating your next level of life Is it the highest? I don't know, maybe the next level is your highest until the next! Let's explore this and see how it plays out as an expanding entrepreneur.

When we think of someone living as their highest self, we generally imagine a person of great stature and attractiveness, radiating power, abundance and wisdom. We usually see her as superior to wee mortals, having been born with some kind of super-powers. But that is not so.

How 'on earth' do we unleash our own power and supernatural qualities to pull off navigating the tricky world we live in and the tricky world of entrepreneurialism to rise to the levels we dream of?

The answer is quite simple, and it's not about power and influence, not about great riches or beauty, but that idea of nobility and virtue.

You see, 'highest selves' don't compare. They don't envy, and they don't resent. How can we possibly unleash our superpowers and virtues if secretly we feel 'less than others, or worse still, we are green with envy or jealousy!

Envy, comparisonitis, doing what we don't want to do and feeling 'less than' are all forms of resentment.

If we are secretly comparing ourselves to others and feeling 'less than' them or envious, we are in the energy of resentment. And, of course, our highest selves are not meant to compare ourselves or ever feel envious!

But what happens is that energy, we try and keep a lid on it, just go through our lives, spitting venom under our breaths and moaning and grumbling, but then it will come out inappropriately; that energy will leak through inappropriately.

So if you are doing any kind of resentment, you are saying, I value resentment. Now, universal law responds perfectly to that and will be... bring you more opportunities to be resentful,

But here's the thing, your soul knows that, so that's where the contraction comes from.

When you contract down, you're not a vibrational match for money.

Your soul knows that if you've got time on your hands, you do things that you resent.

You spend time doing things you don't want to do and get resentful about it.

So it's not going to bring you opportunities for freedom if all you're going to do is spend time doing resentment.

So I want to share my own experience around this because jealousy and envy get bad press. Nobody enjoys feeling jealous or envious of other people, particularly very warm, loving heart-centred entrepreneurs, right? But there is such a gift in this I'm going to share my own experience around how this showed up for me and has shown up for me in the most obvious way in my entrepreneurial journey. And it's what activated the 'highest' or most expansive part of me that continues to activate my 'highest' life!

When I first became aware of this area of work, I hired a coach It was the first significant investment I ever made. I would see this particular guy and listen to him online on podcasts, doing his stuff, and he'd blow me away. I could listen to him for hours on end. I loved everything. It was as if liquid gold used to come out of his mouth every time he spoke.

At the time, this was a new experience for me. Back then, as long as I was feeling good about myself, it was fine But on those days when I wasn't feeling so good about myself or my journey or things not happening quickly enough or whatever, my lower self would come out on our calls together, and she was not pretty!

During our time together, I was like the worst nightmare of my worst client! I was awful; I don't know how he coped with me!

So the reason was this: it all leaked out inappropriately because I was so resentful that he had this thing, and I didn't. I know... shallow, isn't it?

Deep down, I knew I had something brilliant inside me, - my highest life was calling - but I didn't know how to access it, and nothing was happening quickly enough.

So when I felt bad about myself, where I was on my journey, comparing myself to him (and others), I felt envious, less than and resentful. It came to a point where I couldn't listen to this superior coach! Thinking about his success and everything he stood for, I literally would become quite aggressive. If he'd been in front of me, I'd have punched his lights out. Very un-highest self, right?

But then, on the days when I felt good, I couldn't think of anything better than to listen to him, and it just lit me up because he was reminding me of my brilliance in myself.

Can you relate? Is there someone you see in your entourage and secretly envy their success? Do you get twangs of comparisonitis (which always ends in self-judgement!)?

But here's the thing, Luvly; that envy, that yearning, that jealousy, where you're poked, and you resent somebody else's gift or their success, the reason that shows up is this: your gift is being triggered inside. A part of your gift that you haven't yet allowed to emerge, the part that you haven't yet stepped into, is being triggered outwardly and reflected through someone else.

You see it in a role model, someone further along the path, and it yearns to come out

When that happens, your blessed little soul calls you and says, "Look, look! This is what we are capable of! This is what you could have; this is what is within you".

Your soul recognises your greatness by seeing it mirrored in others. But often, it comes out as this inappropriate yearning, churning energy that nobody enjoys feeling.

For me, at that time, when I was experiencing this 'less than' resentfulness, it was really all because this lovely guy (whom I still adore to this day) had his own modality - his very own methodology, something I thought was the pinnacle of achievement!

So I yearned for my own version of my own modality, my own version of something unique and life-changing that was mine.

At the time, I could never have imagined that I had that something within me. I accepted that that experience wasn't for me; it wasn't something within me, nor that I could create.

But The Conscious Wealth Code® - my proprietary system and methodology, birthed itself naturally and gradually to the point where I didn't even realise it had. I didn't realise that it was already there! I couldn't see it.

Still, it built up, grew, and the next level reached the point where I have my own work I've got my own modality, which happened as I stepped further into my gifts I've truly stepped into my 'Highest Self', creating my Highest Life'. It's a work in progress every day, but the frequency of it will always call you onwards and upwards.

When, at that confusing time, I realised what that envy, jealousy, yearning and resentment were showing me, when I realised what the gift was inside of that and started stepping further into my next level, it blossomed.

So how do you know when that's happening? How can you tell when you've stepped into your Highest-Self power and transcended these base impulses?

Because you will see the world from a nobler, more virtuous point of view, you will see abundance everywhere.

I'm blessed; I've got talented people in my home. I mean, my husband is a fabulous chef, and he's a great cook, amongst other things, and I so appreciate his talents - while not wanting to have them!

My daughter and son are fabulous artists, absolutely mind-blowingly good artists, and I can totally appreciate their gifts.

I'm happy to spend time and participate in those gifts I'm not jealous and envious of them I don't want them. Their talents are not within me, waiting to be unlocked. So I don't get jealous about it or envious of it.

Do you see? It's that jealousy and envy that signal that you need to take responsibility, look at what's going on inside, and then expand into that version of yourself.

That's why that resentment is showing up; you resent someone else because it's within you. Your version of it is absolutely within you You've just got to choose it and own it.

Here's the thing; as an entrepreneur, you are surrounded by people who are role models, heroes, or mentors, or simply they are where you want to be. Often when you work with these people, not only do they give you those twangs of envy, but you may well reflect on how they aren't really different from you or that you already know the wisdom they are teaching.

Jealousy is also a hard word for heart-led entrepreneurs, but envy is so relatable; when you see somebody who is super successful in a way that you identify with it, it lights you up. But then you start beating yourself up for all the reasons you are not there yet, or that something is wrong with you.

If we don't allow ourselves to feel this emotion and energy and make it wrong about ourselves, it will leak out inappropriately somewhere, sometimes and make us look far from our highest self. So just see it for what it truly is. It is golden. It is within you.

You just need to find your version of 'it'. It will be different from the person pushing your button or inspiring you or that you aspire to be. Your version won't be the same, but there will be a version. That's why you are feeling the way you do.

Instead of allowing ourselves to be jealous and envious, we turn it within. What we are doing is we are running the risk of resenting ourselves

We resent ourselves because it's safer to direct the energy inwards than direct it to someone we secretly admire and resent at the same time.

We resent ourselves, and then it can start manifesting as procrastination or frustration, ping-ponging back and forth. So comparisonitis is the more subtle version that heart-centred people tend to choose because it's more comfortable directing resentment towards themselves than outwardly.

I encourage my clients to stop going where it's showing them that energy and instead focus on the opposite energy, which is the default setting is expansion.

If you think about resentment, it's contracted energy and space. So what you want to do is choose expansion instead. Think of all the ways you can be, feel and do more expansion in your life, not just your business and life.

We can leverage all of these. We can leverage the law with all of these because expansion is your default way of growing.

When you are inspired by somebody or aspire to be like somebody, tune into that person's energy, lifestyle, and achievements. How does it feel for you? What are the nobler, virtuous, or superpower energies you detect?

Identify them and then go and deliberately trigger that energy somewhere Just do anything that ignites the energy in you that you perceive in your role model.

That will begin to unlock your own gifts and light.

Expansion is your default state, but you can get direct communication from your soul by tuning into what it will feel like when you own that space.

When you are at the level of the next version of you, and your highest life, when you are showing up as this person that is pushing every button you've got on one day and then inspiring you the next day, tune to what that will feel like for you, identify the energy, go do it, go do in other ways.

Right now, think about someone who really represents the kind of lifestyle or success or something that you admire or that you're working with. Identify one of the energies you resonate with, and then go and take an action that will trigger that energy.

Say you're an entrepreneur who dreams of making an impact; start looking at situations where you can have a significant impact, but at the same time, tie it in with an opportunity for people to give you that kind of feedback.

So start playing around with that, and choose what new ways you can impact people's lives Be aware and conscious of every time you do something that you hope will impact other people.

If the energy of resentment is calling you to expand into the next version of you, that's what it's calling you for.

Expand into this; if this doesn't vibrate money, then you're misaligned. Resentment represents misalignment. Money is a happy byproduct of alignment, so you vibrate at a higher frequency when you start expanding into that.

Remember, money resonates with the energy of responsibility and power. When you make something that you think is wrong with you about somebody else by resenting someone else, you are giving your power away

You are not taking responsibility, and it's never, ever, ever really about anybody else; that's just an egoic tactic to keep you off track.

Have conversations with people, set your boundaries, take your power back, and stop sacrificing your time and energy on things you don't want to do. And step further into the more expansive version of yourself because all you're doing when you are hanging out with resentment is you are just wasting your time.

That's precisely what your higher or highest self would do.

Realign the things you can’t see, to get the results you can see. ”

Karen Baines is a Conscious Wealth Creation Mentor and loves to work with passionate, ambitious entrepreneurs by showing them how to master their own creational process, particularly around their business and finances.

I’ve been learning and teaching the language of money for some years now, having previously run my own successful bookkeeping business. Running quietly parallel to this was a life-long interest in personal development. A whole new level of money wisdom was introduced to me when I discovered Universal Law and energy, and soon after that the defining moment when these two worlds suddenly collided. Previously, I had been attempting to compartmentalise them, the irony being that I now teach how you simply cannot compartmentalise energy.

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