The thing is, we weren't born with them so if we look deep within, we can find those intrinsic instructions ourselves if we're willing to look.
May i add that if we're willing to look, we should be extra careful and cautious.
Because if we take the route of meditations on chakras to reach your higher self,
some might reach that stage, that spiritual world where you find your higher self.
But it could be another entity posing as your higher self and misguide you.
It's another world that we dont know about, the spiritual world... Some might get enlightened, some might get possessed and think that they are enlightened...
On one hand, maybe this is the true way (this spirituality)
But on the other, this is the playing with fire that some religions warn us against.. (spirits or jinn in Islamic concept)
I used to be into this stuff, i think i mentioned it before in some other posts or maybe in a previous version of this forum.
So i apologise for repeating myself..
I used to do those meditation and breathing exercises and trying to open my chakras
and i actually reached some of my goals like lucid dreams, started seeing auras in colour although still at pretty early stage..
When i just started practicing, i kind of astral traveled, but it freaked me out so i thought it was because i smoked weed that time so i decided i stop smoking and might come back to it later... (came to that conclusion after some internet research)
But the thing is, one of my goals was to better myself, embarrassing to say this in a public forum but i always dreamed about being one of those with a pure heart.
And i read that if you concentrate mostly on opening up the heart chakra, a person can become more kind, more empathetic and actually become pure hearted...
After some practice and after i achieved those few goals i mentioned, i noticed a change in me.
I actually became less empathetic! Example of that would be:
I heard some very sad news that happened to someone, and i know that the old reaction within me would be devastated,
but this time when i heard the news, logically i was devastated, but emotionally i was almost nonchalant!
And i noticed it within me straight away.. From that time on every sad news was like that..
I don't know, maybe i just naturally went through changes within 6 months or a year and my heart hardened instead of softened.
I don't know, but it freaked the lights out of me and i still today miss my old self when i was more empathetic not only logically but also emotionally.
I don't know if it's accidental or not, but i just wanted to share my experience because if it wasn't accidental, then i wouldn't want someone to have a bad experience too.
So just try to be extra careful - that's my main message.
All the best.