It depends how you percieve it, consiousness, awareness or what your belive are about it.
Keep an open mind....
"Your Higher self" is not that much different of a conception or principle of an alter ego.
It's just the lable we assign to it.
Or namista (maybe I missed spelled it) = The god within me.
Lets say you were conditioned by others or through your own belive that you are not good enough.
You put down yourself, you live through fears, guilt and shame...
It's your ego (little mind) that'll keep you in this state of being.
Intuitively you know...that there's nothing wrong with you.
To compensate...you created what you so call as an alter ego becuase you have been conditioned
to feel guilty or belive that it's wrong.
You can either use it for you or against you. It's neutrual.
Common sense will tell me...that it's healthier to love myself, no that I'm okay with me,
feel good about myself, know that Im capiable and have the power within myself to do anything,
live as I wish, follow my hopes and dreams. Accomplish anything I wish to accomplish in life...
The guilt and shame comes from others that will tell you..."NO you can't..who do you think you are?"
" you're not good enough", " you don't have what it takes"...etc
You have a chioce...to belive or not. It's what you belive about yourself, what you think about yourself.
Or would you rather live your life to what other think of you, tell you what you can or can't do?
Or rather it's the belive of other beliefs that they can't.
From personal experince. Recently I've been going through alot of changes.
I came across alot of new beliefs and new ideas. I kept and openmind.
I got to this point becuase I got sick and tired of being sick and tired of live life the way I was living.
Most of my old beliefs, limited self impoose beliefs or ideas no longer serves me or they actaully were working against me.
Now that I chioce to change my ways of thinking (beliefs). I feel you much better about mysef, life.
My life is getter better and better everyday....it's was a challegne within myself at first to CHANGE my beliefs
but I continusly reaffirm or recondition my thinking. CHANGE your thinking change your life.
I now belief that I'm spiritaul whole and perfect. I am a perfect being.
I also notice that other people with old belief or ideas like I used to have would tell me or say that I was crazy or
"who do you thinking you are?..."your egotistic"
I belive its my ego that's telling me that " Im not good enough or deserving"
I can't change other people....I changed me. I love myself. I love how I am and who I am today, NOW.
It's my chioce. It's my freedom to belive and live as I chose. I chose this. I chose happiness.
I have control and power over my life now...It's my responsiblities and chioce.