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Your Inner Hermit, Your Spirit, Your Highest Self
Connecting With Your Highest Self: A Recorded Guided Journey With the Hermit
Your Inner Hermit, Your Spirit, Your Highest Self
As I mentioned in our overview of the Hermit, this card represents the seeker in us. The part of us that is on the journey to better understand ourselves and the meaning and purpose of our lives.
The Hermit in each of us seeks to better understand the spiritual nature of our lives, or our Highest Self; that is, who we are beyond the body and the conditioned identity of the mind/ego functions.
Spirit is that eternal part of us that is formless and timeless.
Our rational minds have a difficult time understanding this idea of formlessness and timelessness, which is why it’s so important to remember that spirit is not a mental concept. It’s an experience.
As author Eckhart Tolle says, knowing or awakening to spirit is “disidentification from thinking” or the realization that the constant thoughts and thinking that go in your head are NOT who you are.1
We do not understand spirit through thinking. We cannot fully understand ourselves through our thoughts.
Instead, to understand who we truly are, we must connect to spirit by simply being aware of and present with it. Connection with spirit is an experience and a continual and evolving process.
And it is the medicine of the Hermit that reminds us of this powerful connection we have to spirit, to our Highest Self. Hermit shows us how to support our own connection to spirit through quiet time, stillness, and solitude.
So what do we do once we are alone? Quiet? Still?
There are several methods for connecting to spirit. Often it’s simply a matter of being present with that stillness. But this is not something most of us are used to doing. It can even be uncomfortable to be so quiet and still.
So for this week, as part of our exploration of Hermit medicine, I’m offering you an easeful, recorded guided journey to support your connection to spirit, and your understanding of your Highest Self.
If you enjoy this recording, I encourage you to listen to it frequently to strengthen your ability to tune in to spirit. For it is through practice that we develop a relationship to this powerful aspect of our being and discover more love and wisdom in our lives.
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Connecting With Your Highest Self: A Guided Journey With the Hermit
Length: 21 min.
Hope you enjoyed this inner journey to access more of the love and wisdom within you!
Stay tuned for our full moon ritual next week.
In service to supporting your highest good,
💖Nicole