Linking with Higher Self with Sanaya Roman as Orin by Julia Griffin

Orin, a "nonphysical entity," is channeled by Sanaya Roman. Sanaya works closely with Duane Packer, who channels an entity named DaBen.

Whereas DaBen's information mainly concerns the scientific basis of spirituality and healing, Orin's constant message is that the universe is friendly, that its abundance is unlimited, that whatever is happening is always for our good (even when we do not understand why), and that we can choose to grow through joy rather than pain and struggle.

Like Seth, Orin claims to have had earthly lifetimes. And like Drunvalo, Orin repeatedly encourages us to accept only those ideas that seem true to the deepest part of our own being.

In a book titled Spiritual Growth, Orin outlines methods and meditations for actually linking with our Higher Self. Four of these are included in this article by permission of OrinDaben.com. Using these exercises, rather than speaking to another entity for guidance, we become that entity and achieve understanding and knowledge from this perspective.

Once we have established this kind of connection, Orin tells us, we may develop increased clairvoyance and other psychic powers, and greatly accelerate our process of growth and enlightenment.

Increasing Our Love Vibration
As Einstein proved, everything in the physical universe is energy in different forms. So becoming one with our Higher Self is actually the same thing as raising our energy to that higher level.

Orin tells us that we raise our vibration to that of the Higher Self by opening our hearts. In other words, we move closer to our Higher Self when we are capable of feeling more love.

Many of us may tend to skip over this aspect, thinking, "I already know that." And perhaps we feel that we do love people. But are we feeling love for ourselves? When we raise the frequency level of our self love, we automatically become more closely linked with our Higher Self.

So if we are not satisfied with the level of power, knowledge, and joy in our communications with higher consciousness, it makes sense to begin our quest for Oneness with Higher Self by learning to increase our vibration of love toward self and others.

Here is an exercise Orin gives for doing just that:

Raising Your Vibration

Put your hand over your heart, and say to yourself with feeling: "I love you. I accept you as you are. I commit to you. You are important. Your life counts." Say this until you can feel its truth.

Ask your heart to guide you to follow its loving way. Ask it to speak to you more clearly. Tell it you will listen. You can trust your heart, for it will always lead you to your higher good. Put your hand down gently.

Imagine your heart as a star, and let it radiate love and light to every cell in your body. Feel the light from your heart balancing, harmonizing, and regenerating your body, enhancing the flow of life-force energy throughout.

Spend a moment feeling any emotions that are present right now. Send love to each one you can identify. Take a moment to listen to your thoughts as they come into your mind. Send love to each thought as it comes up.

As you come back into the room, take a deep breath and feel the glow of love throughout your body.

Learning to Receive
Learning to receive is another important step in connecting to Higher Consciousness. There are many things we do feel we deserve, and those things — food, friends, creative ideas perhaps — may flow effortlessly into our lives. There may be other things, however, that we think we don't deserve. And these things either are missing or they appear only after a lot of hard work.

From his perspective, Orin says that most people are allowing into their lives less than two percent of the good things that Higher Self wants to give them!

People who have more abundance are not necessarily more deserving or better, they simply know how to allow more good things to come into their lives. It is not working hard or deserving that brings good things, but simply the ability to "allow" and "give permission." Also, we can stop having worries, struggles, problems, and crises in our lives by simply allowing them to leave.

Orin claims that one way to increase our allowing of good — our ability to receive what the Universe wants to give us — is by making a daily list of everything good that we allowed into our life that day. This process will acclerate and increase the energy that brings good things.

And in one sense, we become linked with our Higher Self simply by allowing this to happen, by giving permission — by surrendering the idea that our world cannot work the way we want it to.

The next exercise helps teach us how to receive.

Allowing Your Higher Good

Sit quietly. Take a deep breath, and imagine you are opening your heart to allow good things into your life. Think of something you easily received into your life. Observe the feeling of receiving on as many levels as you can. How does your body feel when you received? Does your breathing or posture change? How do you feel emotionally? Can you enhance this feeling of receiving?

Stay with this feeling of receiving, and mentally invite and give permission for good things to come to you. Imagine yourself receiving all the good things your Higher Self has for you. Notice how much you can receive, and then let yourself open to receive even more. Open to new thoughts, more harmonious emotions, physical energy, and abundance in every area of your life. As you do you become one with the abundance of your Higher Self.

As you draw in these good things, imagine you are creating space for them, mentally, emotionally, and physically. All you need do is imagine you are opening up the energy around you to create room for these good things when they come.

Imagine that your Higher Self is handing you a silver chalice filled with life-force energy and complete abundance. When you are ready to have more in your life, drink from it. Fill yourself with as much abundance and energy as you can receive.

As you come back into the room, feel yourself opening to receive even more good things, and affirm that you are ready to have them.

The Higher Self State
Once we have raised our vibration and our ability to receive, we are now ready to become One with our Higher Self.

The advantages of doing this are great, for in this state we can begin to receive information directly.

Being Your Higher Self

Sit with your eyes open or closed. Adjust your posture so that you are comfortable, perhaps putting your hands at your sides. Begin by taking a few deep breaths.

Imagine your entire body relaxing, starting with your toes. Bring a feeling of relaxation into your feet, calves and thighs, then up into abdomen and lower back, chest, upper back, and shoulders. Next relax your arms, hands, neck, head, and face. Let the muscles around your jaws and eyes relax. Do this until you feel peaceful, focused and physically comfortable.

Adjust your posture so that your energy can flow more easily up and down your spine. Breathe a full breath into just your upper chest, moving your lower diaphragm and abdomen as little as possible. Breathe into your upper chest several times; notice how you feel. Now breathe into your abdomen several times, following this with several breaths into both upper chest and abdomen.

Straighten and lift your upper chest with a deep breath, so your spine is more upright. Notice that as you do this you may also want to adjust the back of your head and neck to the most comfortable upright posture. This helps create fluidity in your emotional body, open your heart center, and make it easier to think in higher ways.

You are now ready to meet your higher Self. Imagine that you are being joined by many high beings who are sitting in a circle around you. Feel the peace, joy, and love all around you. These beings are here to assist you in meeting your Higher Self.

Imagine your Higher Self in the distance, beginning to come toward you. You might picture it as a being or just a beautiful, shimmering, radiant light. Greet and welcome your higher Self and invite It to come closer. Mentally ask your Higher Self to assist you in making a stronger connection. Feel the radiance of Its love surrounding you and embracing you. Feel the lines of light coming to you from your Higher Self. As these lines of light touch you, feel your vibration increase. Your Higher Self is now merging and becoming One with you. Feel your molecules and atoms merging with It, as if you are reclaiming a part of your energy. Let your Higher Self merge with you even more until all your energy patterns are taking on the radiance of your Higher Self. You and your Higher Self are now One.

As your Higher Self, open your breathing to create a greater flow of energy in your body. Adjust your position so that you are sitting as your Higher Self. As your Higher Self, adjust your shoulders and chest to reflect your confidence and wisdom. What facial expression do you have as your Higher Self?

Think of a situation you want guidance about. As your Higher Self, you are going to give yourself advice about this situation. Imagine you are a wise teacher and consultant. What advice would you give yourself on this situation? You may want to speak out loud or write down your answers.

As your Higher Self, do you have any other messages, perhaps about your spiritual growth, your higher purpose, or anything else?

Thank your Higher Self for becoming one with you and sit as long as you like as your Higher Self.

Messages sent from our Higher Self to another person's Higher Self will bring results. Orin suggests that when we are "in" our Higher Self, we might think of someone we would like to communicate with.

Get quiet and imagine a fine gridwork of light around you, extending straight upward. Next, imagine a line of light going out from your heart to this person's. Mentally tell the person you love and accept him or her exactly as she or he is. Express any other messages of love you want to send.

Developing Psychic Powers
A further exploration of Being the Higher Self, the next exercise increases our ability to see things from the Higher Self's all-knowing perspective. Through doing this, we may learn to sense information about our own path and other people's physical, emotional, or mental bodies. We learn how to "just know" what to do for ourselves and others.

This meditation stimulates the centers of the third eye and the crown chakra. It is used to increase our ability to perceive subtle energies of higher dimensions. By doing this often, we may develop clairvoyant sight.

Since the following exercise develops all of the powers of higher consciousness, it's important to remember our commitment to integrity. These powers will contribute to our spiritual growth only if we use them to serve the higher good. Otherwise, they can be detrimental.

Moving into Higher Consciousness

Sit in a comfortable position. Become aware of the sounds in the room, the feelings of your clothing against your skin, and the rhythm and the fullness of your breath. Breathe deeply a few times, then send your awareness through your body and make yourself as comfortable as you can. As you relax even more, observe your heartbeat and pulse.

Now get into your Higher Self state, using the steps of the "Being Your Higher Self" meditation. Imagine you are merging with the light and radiance of your Higher Self. As your Higher Self, focus on your emotional body. You might imagine that your emotional body feels like a layer of energy just on the surface of and outside your physical body. As your Higher Self, "pull" your emotional body out from physical body until it stands around you, sparkling, fluid, and clear.

Now picture your spiritual center on top of your head as a lotus flower. Each time you grow and reach upward, a petal unfolds, until you have a thousand-petaled lotus. Imagine what you will feel like when all the petals are unfolded. Picture the lotus as it looks now. How many of the petals are open? Imagine more petals opening gently and easily. As they open, picture yourself being surrounded by the shimmer of your awakened spiritual body.

Next imagine the gridwork of light around you that is your mental body. Extend it straight upward, and make it finer and more beautiful.

As your Higher Self, put a violet light around your pineal gland (located behind your eyes, near the center of your skull). The pineal gland regulates the awakening of the spiritual eyes that can see subtle energies in this dimension and others, including seeing your and others' auras.

Look around the room with your eyes soft-focused. Be observant of any differences from what you would normally see, or any greater awareness of the energy around the things you are looking at. If you notice a soft glow around things, play with looking into the glow to see more about it — its size, density, any patterns it contains, and so on.

As you come back into the room, congratulate yourself for working on your energy centers and being willing to see more of the unseen, subtle energies around you.

Orin teaches that when we are connected with our Higher Self, we create "with energy" before we take physical action. In other words, we create change by working at the highest spiritual level, rather than through the personality.

Devoted practice can bring into our lives a clearer sense of direction, a greater feeling of being in control, a deeper understanding of why things are happening, and an increasing calm.

Sanaya Roman's formal training includes graduating Phi Beta Kappa from the University of California at Berkeley. She has studied metaphysics for years, finding great value in the Alice Bailey books and the Seth books by Jane Roberts. Today she teaches live graduate light body seminars with Duane Packer and his guide, DaBen.

Orin is a nonphysical entity that Sanaya connects with through conscious channeling. She sees Orin "as a being of great love, wisdom, and compassion. He never tells people what to do or how to live their lives. When asked, Orin will offer suggestions and ideas to assist people in seeing more choices." Orin tells Sanaya that he is a Being of Light, working to help humanity to achieve higher consciousness through this period of major transition and awakening.

For more information about Orin and DaBen and their teachings, including books and guided meditation tapes, visit their website, OrinDaben.com. Excerpts in this article of Spiritual Growth are used with permission.