It usually happens about two hours into a session. The person lying on the recliner has been speaking for a while, describing scenes, emotions, fragments of something that feels both distant and deeply personal. And then the voice changes. Not dramatically. But enough that I notice it every single time. The words slow down. The tone becomes steadier. There is a calm in the room that was not there a moment before.
- The Higher Self is not a separate entity but a deeper layer of your own awareness
- It communicates with unusual precision, often addressing things the conscious mind has been avoiding
- The connection does not require belief, only a willingness to listen
- What it reveals tends to stay with people long after the session ends
What the Higher Self Actually Is
I want to be careful with language here because this concept carries a lot of assumptions. When I talk about the Higher Self in my practice in Laren, I describe it simply: it is the part of you that sees your life without the filters of daily thinking. No anxiety coloring the view. No old stories running in the background. Just clarity.
Some clients connect it to spiritual beliefs they already hold. Others see it as a deeper function of the subconscious mind. Both perspectives are valid, and neither changes the quality of what comes through. In my experience, the labels matter far less than the experience itself.
Dolores Cannon, who developed the QHHT technique, spent decades documenting what happens when people reach this level of awareness. What she found, and what I continue to observe in sessions near Amsterdam, is that this deeper intelligence is remarkably consistent. It speaks with compassion. It does not judge. And it addresses exactly what the person needs to hear, even when that is not what they expected.
How the Connection Happens
There is no switch that gets flipped. The transition from the regression portion of a session into Higher Self contact is gradual. It often begins when I ask a question and the answer comes faster than the person could have consciously composed it. Clients sometimes pause afterward and say something like, “I do not know where that came from.”
That is usually the moment. The conscious mind steps aside just enough for something deeper to speak.
One thing I have noticed across hundreds of sessions is that people who try to control the experience tend to delay this connection. It is not about effort. It is closer to the opposite. The same principle applies to past life regression: the less you try to direct it, the more clearly it unfolds.
What It Tends to Reveal
The questions people bring to a session are often specific. Why do I keep choosing the same kind of relationship? What is this pain in my body that no doctor can explain? Why do I feel stuck even though my life looks fine from the outside?
The answers that come from this deeper level are specific too, but not always in the way people expect. Sometimes the Higher Self addresses a question the person did not even ask out loud. Something they had been carrying quietly, perhaps for years, that they did not think was connected to anything.
There is a pattern I see regularly with clients who travel from Amsterdam to my practice in Laren. Many arrive focused on one particular concern, and the session gently redirects their attention to something underneath it. A woman who came asking about career confusion discovered that the real question was about permission, specifically, whether she had ever given herself permission to want what she actually wanted. That kind of reframing does not come from the surface mind.
After the Voice Goes Quiet
When the Higher Self portion of a session ends, there is often a pause. The person opens their eyes slowly. Some cry. Some laugh. Many sit in silence for a while, processing something that does not fit neatly into words.
The integration period after a session matters enormously. I wrote about this in detail in what happens after a QHHT session, but the short version is that insights continue to surface for days, sometimes weeks. A phrase the Higher Self used might suddenly make sense in the middle of a Tuesday afternoon. A feeling that seemed abstract during the session might become concrete when a familiar situation arises and you respond to it differently than you ever have before.
Something I find remarkable is that the people who were most skeptical beforehand are often the ones who carry the experience most deeply afterward. There is something about not expecting a shift that allows it to land more fully when it arrives.
If you have been quietly wondering whether there is a part of you that understands more than your everyday thinking allows, you are probably not wrong. And you do not have to take my word for it. You just have to be willing to sit still long enough to listen.
