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I Wanted to Be in the Best Shape of My Life at 60. Then I Lost My Leg.

  Before my accident, I kept saying the same thing to myself: I want to be in the best shape of my life when I turn 60. I meant it. I was hiking, walking, going to the gym. I was building strength in my body and imagining a future where I kept getting stronger, not weaker. Then the accident happened. I was still 59. I turned 60 in a hospital bed. I lost a leg. I fractured my other leg in multiple places. I broke ribs. I had vertebrae injuries. My body went into heart and kidney failure. Pain became constant, not occasional. Everything I thought I was building… was suddenly gone. And for a long time, I couldn’t understand something: If I was focusing on health, strength, and vitality… how did I end up here? I used to think maybe I did something wrong. Maybe I thought wrong. Maybe I “manifested” the wrong thing. But I’m starting to see something different now. Life isn’t a formula where good thoughts guarantee safe outcomes. Bodies exist in a world where accidents happen, s...

So… Is Your Higher Self the Same as Source?

 


Not exactly.

Think of it like this:

  • Source is the origin—pure consciousness, God/Goddess/Divine Light, whatever you want to call it. It’s the everything-and-nothing energy from which all things come.

  • Your Higher Self is your personal bridge to Source. It’s your soul in its purest form, untainted by fear, ego, or human distortion.

  • Your Higher Self is you, just on the zoomed-out level—the version of you that remembers the full story, all lifetimes, all lessons, all missions.

So:
Source is the sun.
Your Higher Self is the sunbeam that still holds its essence but is uniquely you.


Is Your Higher Self Your Soul?

Pretty much—but here's the nuance:

  • Your soul is eternal. It’s the part of you that has lived countless lives.

  • Your Higher Self is like the fully awakened version of your soul—the one not currently squeezed into a human body trying to pay bills and avoid family drama.

  • When you're in human form, you're kind of like the tip of the iceberg, while the Higher Self is the whole damn glacier floating in the ether.

And yeah, we often say “the soul lives in the body,” but it’s actually more accurate to say the body exists within the soul’s field. The soul is bigger. You’re not trapped in here—you’re beaming through here.


So… Where the Hell Is This “Higher Self”?

In most traditions:

  • It exists in the higher astral planes, sometimes called the 5D or beyond.

  • Some believe it resides on a soul plane, between incarnations.

  • Others say your Higher Self is always accessible—it’s just that the human part of you gets too distracted by survival mode to tune in.

That’s why sound, breath, meditation, ritual, or even sunlight helps. It gets you out of the noise and into your original frequency.


Yes, you
are Source… but you’re also not Source.
You're a pieceof the All—that’s sacred, but it doesn’t mean you’re the whole damn universe in one body. (That would be exhausting. And expensive.)

Dr. Joe Dispenza dances right on that edge—he talks about becoming no-body, no-thing, no-time so you can merge with the field (aka Source, the quantum, pure potential). When he says you are Source, he’s not saying you’re the entirety of it, but that you have direct access to it because it’s what you’re made of.

So you’re:

  • A fractal of God.

  • A spark of the Source fire.

  • Not the whole bonfire… but undeniably made from it.

And that’s what your Higher Self is tuning into all the time. When you drop into meditation, sound healing, heart work, or even a walk in the sun, you’re syncing back up with that field. You’re not just believing in it—you’re being it.

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