The 3 (Hidden) Levels of Self it's Time You Know About...

In this instructional video, Aaron Doughty outlines three often‑overlooked aspects of personal identity that he calls the limited ego self, the higher self, and the lower (earth/collective) self. He explains how most people identify primarily with the ego self—a sensory, socially‑conditioned identity—while neglecting the higher self, a dimension of consciousness that offers guidance, purpose, and passion, and the lower self, which links us to the planet’s collective consciousness (Gaia). Through personal anecdotes, meditation practice, and the concept of passion as a communication channel, Aaron shows how observing thoughts, detaching from ego patterns, and aligning with the higher self can raise one’s vibrational state, unlock purpose, and contribute to a broader planetary transformation. He also references the law of attraction, collective conditioning, and Dolores Cannon’s QHHT work as supporting frameworks. The video concludes with a call to practice a 21‑day higher‑self meditation, engage with his social media, and integrate all three selves for a more aligned, high‑vibrational life.
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This video, I'm going to be sharing with you the 3 hidden levels of self that you may not know about. Being able to integrate these 3 levels will absolutely transform your life. Welcome back to another video. My name is Aaron and I help people expand their consciousness. Now in this video, I'm going to be sharing with you the 3 hidden levels of self, 3 levels of self, of parts of you that when you integrate changes the whole entire game because when you identify with just one of these levels, a lot of times it can cause pain. When you neglect some of these levels or you don't listen to these levels of you, then a lot of times you'll go on these tangents. You'll find that things just aren't working for you and when you heal them and integrate them, your life will feel like you're in alignment. You'll feel like you're in a high vibrational state. You feel like you're connected to who you're really meant to be in your life and your whole life will change. And these are things that I became aware of as I started meditating. For example, back in 2012, I started to connect to one of these levels and this level allowed me to really understand my purpose in life, to understand why I'm here and what I could be doing to help other people. And that eventually caused a cascade to where then I am doing what I do now, which I make videos and I'm able to travel the world doing what I love. And a lot of it has to do with passion as well, understanding that, but in general, let's understand first off the level that mostly everyone will understand or at least identify with somewhat, and that is understanding the limited ego self. The limited ego self is what most people identify solely as because this is the part of us that's like, I experienced reality through the 5 senses and this is what is real, and we identify with this part of us because this is what we quote know quote, no, as we are growing up because we are told that this is who you are. This is obviously how you experience your reality. So we then develop an identity around our ego, our identity around the limited self, and we do everything we can to remain consistent to it. Now the thing is, is this isn't really just who we are. This is a very small percentage of who we are at a greater level. We are immortal spiritual beings living a temporary human experience. And when we're born into this reality, the thing is, is we forget who we are. We forget that that's actually who we are, that we are so much more than we can imagine because then we're only identifying with the limited self. So we go through life experiences where we continue to identify, to continue to protect that self-image. As we grow up, we adopt the beliefs of our parents, adopt the beliefs of our environment, and then we live out that life. As the ego and as the limited self. Now, something very powerful happens when you begin to meditate, because when you begin to meditate, you begin to observe your thoughts. And when you observe your thoughts, you start to detach from that of things that are normally triggering you. You start to detach from things that have an energetic pull on you. And you're also able to observe your thoughts to realize that you may think thoughts, but you are not your thoughts. So the thing is, is we just grow up identifying with our environment, identifying with things that happen to us, and because of that, we continue to experience that over and over again. So that's the ego limited self that most people identify with, and it's the self that is only capable of a certain amount of, of, uh, of growth. Of success because when we identify with the ego, we then keep ourselves in this little metaphorical box. Now the next level is a level that I experienced when I began meditating because I realized that I am not just my ego self. I'm so much more than that. And in meditation, as I was observing my thoughts, I saw I have these thoughts, I have these beliefs, and I think that these beliefs are who I am. But then I became aware that those beliefs are just a small part of who I am. They weren't really who I was. And as I was able to observe them, I began to detach from them. And I allowed this higher energy to come through. Now this higher energy is what we call the higher self. So we have that of the ego limited self. Then we have that as the higher self. Now the higher self is the part of us that right now is connected to us, but the degree to which we feel this connection will depend on our alignment and our openness to it. So your higher self and who you really are is in higher dimensional states of consciousness. You are right now dreaming that this is who you are in this life. You are projecting yourself here thinking this is who you are when in actuality you are so much more than you can even imagine. Now your higher self is constantly guiding you. My higher self was guiding me. I've always known I wanted to be on YouTube and it kept giving me these hints. It kept giving me these signs and eventually what I did is I decided that I'm going to go down this route because I know and I feel, I've always felt like my, my passion in my life or what I was going to be doing is be speaking in front of people. So because I thought that that's what my life is going to be about, um, and I had this feeling about it, it was then certain seeds were planted to where then I started going through my spiritual awakening and then I kept getting signs, confirmation, and then eventually I ended up making videos on YouTube, which eventually started to where I am now. So that was a guidance of my higher self. That was a feeling that I had an understanding and I then went through a period as well when I began to observe my thoughts with the limited self. I went through a period as well where I was doing a lot of research. I was listening to seminars, I was listening to speakers, I was reading books and I was digesting this information. However, what happened is I had my higher self to help guide me through the information to know what is legit, what is not legit, what resonates, what doesn't resonate, um, what may take parts of something that I felt was true, but it was able to help me decipher the information to understand it and understand your higher self. Will help you to understand, and when you connect to your higher self, you will get exactly what you need when you need it, and you will start to trust the process more. You see, a lot of times the best case scenario that your ego can imagine, the best case scenario that your ego can imagine is the floor of the higher mind, of the higher self. The higher self may be able to bring you even more amazing things in your life, but you're limiting yourself by being attached to this one little perspective. So the key is to trust the higher self, to trust this version of you that's in a higher state of consciousness right now. And as you begin to put more attention on it and you begin to intend to connect to that version of you more, you will bring more of it into your life. You know, there's a lot of power in our thinking and our thoughts and our emotions, and when we align with that higher self, that's when everything begins to change. Now, one of the best mechanisms we have for connecting to that of our higher self is the emotion or the feeling of passion. Because when you're in a passionate state, you're doing what you're truly passionate about. That feeling, that emotion is telling you that that is who you are. That is the— think of it like you are here, your higher self is here. The way that your higher self communicates with your ego self is through the feeling of passion. It says, hey, go in this direction, come in this direction. So what happens is it gets you. That's kind of like the carrot on a stick, and sometimes it may not logically make sense. Think of your higher self as well as on top of a mountaintop looking down at that of your lower self or at the looking down at that of your ego self and your ego self is in the valley. It can't see very far, but your higher self can see the whole entire way. You can make up the mountain and maybe the higher self says, hey, go in this direction. You say logically, that doesn't make sense. There's a river over there. There's no way I can get over. But then if you simply trust the process, your higher self brings you over there and then you see that there's logs that can get you over the river. And you cut a whole bunch of time in half, or there's something over there that you end up learning that changes your life. So with this process, it's about trust. It's about understanding that you are a high vibrational being naturally. The only thing that keeps the ego self limited is the identification. You see, in that higher self version of you, your natural state is unconditional love, bliss, joy, peace. That is who you are. If you feel lower vibrational emotions, it's because there's some level of identity with past experiences, with future projections, and that sense of identity keeps us entrained into those lower states of consciousness. So the key to connecting to the higher self is actually just to let go and to understand that you are not that of your ego. You may, you may have your ego as a vehicle. You may use this body. This body is a vehicle that we use for a certain period of time. But it is not just who we are. Now, the idea is understanding that that level of identification will keep us entrained into that of the ego. So once again, I'm not saying to completely neglect the ego. I'm not saying to completely just live in the airiness of the higher self. I've seen to combine the two. I'm saying to have an intention of maybe what you want to experience in your life and have the intention of connecting it with your higher self so that you have this dual type energy to where it's very powerful. So when you, when you begin to tap into this connection, you'll find that a lot in your life begins to change because then you're aligning with a higher vibrational energy. You know, a lot of people come to me for the law of attraction and they're asking about how to manifest what they want, but they're doing it from a paradigm of things that their soul really doesn't want. How can I win the lottery? It may not be in your best interest to win the lottery because you may have some type of passion that if you won the lottery, you wouldn't even go for that passion. If I would have won the lottery 5, 6 years ago, I may not be making YouTube videos. I may not be doing my passion for a living. Yes, I might have $100 million or whatever, but I probably wouldn't be happy because this is what makes me happy. But we go for the thing that our ego thinks it wants. Now the idea is to, to look at the emotion that we want from that. The emotion that we want from that of the lottery is the freedom to do what we want. So instead, let's go for the freedom. You see, this is when we begin to marry these two things together, the higher self and the limited ego self. So the ego also isn't bad. Sometimes we get into this, this thing where we're like, oh, the ego is bad. The ego is the enemy. The ego is the enemy. The ego is something we're using. The ego is, is, is something that you don't want to develop a negative relationship with because then you create resistance with yourself. Not that you are the ego, but it creates inner resistance when we're, when we're down talking the ego or when we're in that way. Be aware of it. Observe it. Don't identify with it. It's more of a neutral thing than anything else. Many things in life are neutral. Everything in life is neutral, but it's about being aware of the meaning we give it because the meaning we give it is going to be what we get out of it. Now, the third part of yourself that maybe you haven't heard of before, maybe you've heard of these two before. The third part of yourself is what is called your lower self. Now, your lower self is the part of you that is connected to the planet because understand microcosm, macrocosm. We're all connected on this planet. This planet is a spiritual entity within herself. We are the cells on the planet of Gaia, and because we are the cells on the planet of Gaia, it's about being aware that we all have a connection. Have you heard of the hundredth monkey effect where there are certain types of monkeys in a certain country or island and the monkeys learned that if you were to get these fruits and you were to wash the fruit off in the ocean, you could then eat it versus having sand all over it. Well, at the same time that one part of the monkeys found out about this, around the whole entire planet, monkeys began to find out about this in different countries, different islands, everywhere else. It's called the hundredth monkey effect. And the reason being is because we're all connected to this collective consciousness. And within this collective consciousness, we have this information to where we can pick up on it. Think of it almost like an energy field. There's an energy field around our body that is full of our emotions, our thoughts, patterns, and when we walk around into the world, we are linking up with other people's bodies of emotions and we're linking up with other people subconsciously, whether we're aware of it or not. And what happens is we continue to bring in experiences that are equal to that vibration within that energy field, and people can pick up on that energy field as well. So where people can pick up on things people have going on, emotions, all these different things. Now, in the same way, the planet herself has an energy field around her body and we are all connected to it. So this is when we are connected to the collective consciousness and we realize that we are connected to everything. Now, the lower self, what we call Earth, the Earth part of us, this is where we tap into the collective consciousness. Now, in general, on the collective consciousness right now, or in the planet, on the planet, There is this powerful transformation that's happening because as we individually transform our own lives, that is going into the pattern of the grid and that is transforming the collective consciousness as well because there's a certain level of social conditioning that's there. There's social conditioning around, uh, that's why the news is all negative stuff. It keeps us in that lower limited self and there are people that know this and it's not something to be afraid of. I'm not telling you to be afraid of it. I'm just saying there are people that know this. That's why every single thing you turn on the news is negative and keeps you in the lower vibrational states of consciousness. Now the key is, is right now on the planet we have the internet. Things are less controlled as they can be because a lot of people don't even watch the news anymore. They're starting to watch alternative media. They're starting to watch YouTube and things where they have more ability to see more neutral perspectives, you could say. And because of that, people are starting to detach from the old charged up grid and into a new level, a new paradigm, a new way for being. So you see, this is about being aware that we are all connected. So when we think that our thoughts are always our own, sometimes our thoughts may be actually thoughts of this collective conditioning. You may go to that of a football game, maybe go to the Super Bowl and you go to the Super Bowl for football and you are thinking and feeling emotions of like whoever's winning or what's going on. However, you are also maybe picking up on other people's thoughts of millions of other people looking at this game, people that are there in the energy. Of the location. All of these different things come into play and it influences our vibration whether we're aware of it or not. But you see, this part of us is— you can also think of as the unconscious mind. Now there's an unconscious mind that we have and there's an unconscious mind of social conditioning. Now the thing is, is when we came into this reality, we realized that this is going to be a time of transformation. If you want more on this, check out Dolores Cannon's books. She has 17 books that talk about QHHT. Quantum Healing Hypnosis Technique, which is a deep level where the higher self comes through and explains why this person incarnated all these things. Thousands of transcripts, and one of the consistent things through many, many thousands of people all over the world was that they're here right now for a time of transformation because now is the time that we are transforming our consciousness. Now the thing is, is a lot of times we on this planet, we would just like someone to like land and give us all the information and tell us everything's going to be okay. Give us technology, all this stuff. We would love that. But the way that this reality works is with free will and we have to make the change within ourselves. It's not very empowering for someone just to give it to you. Just as much as we'd like someone to give us money, give us $100 million, because how convenient would that be? We wouldn't learn anything from it and it wouldn't actually be conductive or conducive to us. However, we are going through this transformation together. We had to incarnate into the system. We had to forget who we are. We had to become a part of this social collective grid, which is the lower earth self. And then we connect to our limited ego self, which you identify with growing up. We begin to detach from it and eventually we then connect to our higher self through a spiritual awakening and we start to bring through a higher vibrational energy, which then bridges these two worlds, the higher divine states of being. Because if you didn't know, you are a divine being. You come from love and light. You exist in higher states of consciousness, and when you begin to connect this higher self version of you to the limited ego version of you, you begin to transform your life in a very powerful way that gets grounded in through the social conditioning, the collective consciousness, and it begins to transform the world from the inside out. These are 3 aspects of you you may have never known about, but the more you're aware of them, the more you can see how can I integrate them? The way that you integrate them is by following your passion, trusting your inner guidance system, going into meditation, observing your thoughts, detaching from the old perspectives of the limited self. Being aware of where you're engaging with the lower self when it comes to social conditioning, the things that are holding you back. As you become aware of all these things, you'll begin to transform your life in a powerful way. You are so much more than you know, and the more you tap into this awareness is the more that you begin to bring this higher vibrational energy into your life and the more everything begins to change. So if you want one of the most powerful meditations that I've created, is, uh, on connecting to your higher self in a very powerful way. I recommend you listen to it for 21 days to get the maximum benefit out of it. I think it totally transformed your life if you do that. It's in the top description box below. Read the comments in that YouTube video just to see what I'm talking about, to see what's possible. Also, I'm going to be doing more live Q&As on Instagram, so if you haven't followed me on Instagram yet, you will see my Instagram right here. I do live Q&As almost every day, plus twice a day I do daily content there as well. That's native, separate from YouTube. So connect to me there as well. Other than that, I hope you enjoyed this video. 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