The Energy Body, Higher Self & Physical Body

By Beth Quist

You are a fragment of the Tao. You are subtle, spiritual energy. But when you incarnated on the earth, a large portion of that subtle energy took up residence within a physical body. The physical body is physical energy so you as a person on earth are composed of both spiritual and physical energies. 

If this is your first incarnation on earth, all of your subtle, spiritual energy is being housed in that physical body. But if this is NOT your first incarnation (and most people on earth have had many incarnations) you have a portion of your subtle, spiritual energy being safely housed on the Higher Self Plane - one of the levels (or floors) or the astral plane (aka heaven). Your  “Higher Self” is still a part of your energy body - just not on the earth. 

The Energy Body
The energy body is a subtle anatomy, or you may prefer to think of it as a spiritual anatomy of the body. The basic concept is that each living person at each visit to a life on earth has a separate energy anatomy that is distinct from what is called the physical body. The effect of this energy body is to give life to the physical.
 
Question: How does the energy body and the physical body relate?
Answer: It, the energy body, is affected by the physical body. The physical body is also affected by the energy body. In other words, the two are by nature intertwined and only death causes separation. What happens to one affects the other.
 
Question: What does the energy body look like?
Answer: It looks as you would imagine. In other words, your mind does not relate to the plane on which the energy body is associated with. By its nature it is part of the lower astral.

The Higher Self
An energy body, in its first experience with life, is the original entity fragment from the Tao and has no Higher Self as of yet.  After the first life experience on earth, however, part of the energy body remains as a Higher Self.  In your next incarnation, a part of your energy remains on the astral plane and a part of your energy body is sent to experience a life on the physical plane. As more lives are experienced, more energy bodies are accumulated within the Higher Self. This accounts for the Higher Self’s increase of knowledge and wisdom. 

At the later stages of lives, smaller energy fragments are sent as an energy body and more energy is retained by the Higher Self.  This process can therefore influence your earthly life because it is a stronger energy force than ever before. That is why in the older life stages, people will intuitively know about things, and they do, because that knowledge is within their Higher Self and is being transmitted by that strong 

Question: Is the Higher Self different from the energy body? If so, how does the higher self relate to the energy body?
Answer: First, you should understand that the energy body is a spiritual body or an unseen energy field or as you would say a subtle and distinct different aspect of the human form. You can call it an energy body. It relates to the higher self, the same as a life experience does. The Higher Self is made up of many experiences of lifetimes. As it gains experience, it gains knowledge, wisdom, and understanding. As it desires to increase that understanding, it allows part of it to gain that experience in a life and then return to itself so that its self may experience that growth. Therefore, one may say that an energy body is similar to a fragment, but an energy body in its first experience with life, is the original entity fragment, and has no higher self as of yet, but after the first life experience, part of the energy body remains as a higher self and part is sent to experience a life. As more lives are experienced, more energy bodies are accumulated. You may think, and this accounts for the Higher Self’s increase of knowledge and wisdom. Also, at the later stages of lives, smaller energy fragments are sent as an energy body and more energy is retained by the higher self, which can therefore influence your earthly life, because it is a stronger energy force than ever before. That is why in the older life stages, they seem to intuitively know about things. This knowledge is transmitted by a strong higher self. 

Question: Is there then a difference between a person’s Higher Self and the energy body?
Answer: Yes there is. At death, those who expect a heaven or a hell, experience such. But not through their Higher Selves, which understand the true nature of their life’s experiences. It is the energy body’s experiences or experiences that dwell in the lower astral levels and as they gain awareness may migrate upwards to eventually join their higher selves.

The Soul
The Soul is an extension of your Higher Self as well as your Physical Self. This extension and combination allows special communication to occur. This allows the Soul to be instructed not only by the Higher Self, but also by the Physical Self as well.  The Soul is the representative of the Physical Self during travel to the astral plane and communion with the Higher Self. The soul and the Higher Self of course are very closely related, working very much as a single unit, but separate. Therefore, the Higher Self automatically perhaps produces the feelings, sensations, information, insight that the soul desires. 

Questions: But then what is a soul?  
Answer: All your energies.  

Question: What does this entail?  
Answer: Your life forces, your mental abilities, your aspirations, and your desires.
In summary, the soul is an extension of the higher self as well as the physical self.  This allows special communication to occur. This allows the soul to be instructed not only by the Higher Self, but by the physical self as well.  

Relationship of the Energy Body, the Higher Self, and the Physical Body
Your physical body, your energy body, and the Higher Self share a unique relationship. This relationship allows the soul and the mental aspect of the human body to be able to communicate. However, the Higher Self can also give guidance that it feels is necessary to the soul without the human or physical person realizing that the instructions are needed.
 
Spiritual energy and physical energy are not the same. They can be related, but are not the same. Your physical mind and body does not and cannot recall or visualize the energy body. It does not feel it, nor does it really understand it. Therefore, different systems of helping the mind accept the spiritual aspects or energies are taught by different teachers. No matter how many autopsies a person does, for example, they will never find an energy body. It does not physically exist in the body. But energy flows through the body and it helps one to understand the relationship between the energy body and the physical body because it can help one gain insight. And it therefore becomes part of your reality. You have created it and therefore are able to gain its benefits. One could devise another system, but what use would it be? It is better to keep things simple, easily understood, and therefore more useful.
 
How to Affect Change in Your Personality
Question: How do people affect change in their personalities or abilities or attributes?
Answer: Desire starts the process. What allows the change to proceed? Is it not visualization or creating the image of the completed change, therefore reinforcing the desire? And is that not creating your own reality? How you visualize yourself is how your soul then perceives itself. This perception then is continued through to the Higher Self which if the perception is incorrect, will correct the information.  If the perception is correct, then the higher self reinforces the perception. 

In this respect, a travel projection (astral travel) experience is always beneficial, but the greater benefit comes from the Higher Self being able to go beyond the rectifying of self perception in soul and allowing the guidance to be given that the soul may need for life’s events in the present or the future.

This correcting process requires time and energy that could be utilized receiving more important information.  However, the techniques of this correcting can be useful as well.  For example, suppose your self perception is “I am fat and always will be so.  This is my destiny.  It is in my genes.”  The higher self will correct the misinformation, allowing the soul to provide a clearer picture to the person. They will find it easier to change their lifestyles to become more what the Higher Self instructed the soul that is the persons reality.  In other words, the soul returns with positive feedback from the Higher Self which provides a greater level of confidence to the whole personality which reinforces the concept that improvements are easy and can be accomplished quickly. 

And so if a the person wishes to affect a change, then by programming the soul that a change is desired, the soul during travel experiences (such as projection to the astral plane) can bring back a correct perception that will accelerate the change if the change is beneficial and in harmony with the Higher Self. If, for example, one desires to increase the evil powers of forceful leadership, this being contrary to the Higher Self, the Higher Self will not allow the reinforcing to occur but will block the process. The way then to see if your motives and personal desires are therefore in harmony with the Higher Self and the principles of humanity, the soul will rectify any misconceptions during travel (projection to the astral plane).  The information is meant to assure you that through astral travel experiences one can usually maintain a proper balance between personal desires and correct human principles. 

Summary
In summary, the soul is an extension of the Higher Self as well as the physical self.  This allows special communication to occur. This allows the soul to be instructed not only by the Higher Self, but by the physical self as well.  By visualizing on the physical level, this programs the soul for travel experiences (projection to the astral plane) that may reinforce those positive attributes one wishes to experience and create.

The soul and the Higher Self share a unique relationship.  This relationship allows the soul and the mental aspect of the human body to be able to communicate with the astral level. Communication can take place either during an astral travel projection experience or after experiencing much astral travel, the soul may be able to communicate directly with the Higher Self. This is called communing. The soul being the extension of both the physical and the spiritual always undertakes the correct or positive phase. If an error in visualization or understanding occurs, through communing or traveling, the soul can rectify this situation.  The soul, also during astral travel episodes, takes with it the emotional feelings that the physical body is experiencing at that time. Therefore, help can be obtained during times of stress and pressure by the use of soul travel.  Also the soul can be programmed by mental thoughts and visual pictures.  Previous to an astral travel experience to obtain the benefits the physical person desires.  However, the Higher Self can also give guidance that it feels is necessary to the soul without the human or physical person realizing that the instructions are needed.