https://www.michaelteachings.com/channeling/ Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:37:23 +0000 Chief Features - Michael Teachings Channeling - Q & A en https://www.michaelteachings.com/channeling/discussion/193/function-of-chief-feature Sat, 25 May 2013 01:37:36 +0000 Chief Features ubiquitous 193@/channeling/discussions What function does Chief Feature have and what role does it play?

WE WOULD SAY AN ENORMOUS PART. OFTEN IT ALONE PREVENTS THE SOUL FROM OPERATING OUT OF THE ROLE IN ESSENCE.

How does it come to be in our lives? Do we choose it?

IT IS CHOSEN, YES, AS IS EVERYTHING.

It was said my Chief Feature was vanity. Is this so?

SOURCE: Michael Teachings Transcripts]]> https://www.michaelteachings.com/channeling/discussion/159/chief-feature-of-stubbornness Tue, 21 May 2013 00:22:34 +0000 Chief Features ubiquitous 159@/channeling/discussions Can you talk a little about addiction/escapism as it might pertain to a Chief Feature of Stubbornness? I hope that doesn't sound too vague, I'm trying to make it a depersonalize the question.

MICHAEL: Stubbornness is a means for protecting the false personality from change. By digging in, so to speak, and being unwilling to accept an alternative to any experience, the fragment protects itself from any number of possibilities, both positive and negative outcomes. In general we would say that the connection between such a determination and the qualities that are inherent in addictions will make letting go of the latter extremely difficult.

Since the propensity of the stubborn one is to retain any choice once made, it would not be easy for him/her to decide that addiction as a choice of escaping the problems of the Physical Plane was truly a 'choice' at all. For the stubborn one We would say, therefore, that this combination of overleaf and choice makes for serious barriers to change.

Channeled by Nancy Gordon]]> https://www.michaelteachings.com/channeling/discussion/158/chief-feature-of-martyrdom Tue, 21 May 2013 00:22:11 +0000 Chief Features ubiquitous 158@/channeling/discussions https://www.michaelteachings.com/channeling/discussion/157/chief-feature-of-greed Tue, 21 May 2013 00:21:44 +0000 Chief Features ubiquitous 157@/channeling/discussions How does this Greed differ from Dominance?

SUBSTANTIALLY, WE WOULD SAY. THERE IS IN THE DOMINANT SOUL A DESIRE TO LEAD OR COMMAND RESPECT. IN THE GREEDY, THERE IS THE DESIRE TO ACCUMULATE OR ACQUIRE WHATEVER THE GREATEST NEED DICTATES, THE MOTTO BEING, “MORE, PLEASE”.

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SELF-DESTRUCTORS SABOTAGE THEMSELVES IN MANY OTHER WAYS THAN ACTUALLY PULLING THE TRIGGER. OFTEN THEY HAVE CONTINUOUSLY POOR HEALTH. THEY DELIBERATELY MAKE THEMSELVES UNATTRACTIVE AND AT TIMES OBNOXIOUS. THEY SHOW UP LATE FOR IMPORTANT APPOINTMENTS, NEVER WITH A GOOD REASON, AND ARE COMPLETELY SHATTERED WHEN THE OTHER PERSON REACTS UNFAVORABLY TO THIS. SELF-DESTRUCTORS WILL OFTEN RUIN PERFECTLY HARMONIOUS RELATIONSHIPS WITH COOL DELIBERATION ON A SUBLIMINAL LEVEL. THIS CAN BE READILY DIFFERENTIATED FROM REJECTION, THOUGH.

How could this synthesis be used in psychotherapy?

WE WOULD SAY GO AHEAD AND TAMPER. YOU CAN DO [no] HARM, FOR IF THEY CANNOT LOOK AT IT, THEY WILL JUST GO ON THEIR MERRY WAY. FOR THOSE WE KNOW AS SELF-DESTRUCTORS, WE WOULD RECOMMEND A VERY RADICAL APPROACH: REGRESSION HYPNOSIS IF THEIR BELIEF SYSTEM DOES NOT INCLUDE THE POSSIBILITY OF REINCARNATION. THE LATTER WILL STILL OFTEN BE SUCCESSFUL, AS THE MEMORIES ARE STILL BURIED THERE, AND IN THE TRANCE CAN OVERRIDE THE BELIEF SYSTEM. HOWEVER, THESE SOULS ARE EXPERTS AT REJECTING SOLUTIONS TO THEIR PROBLEMS. IT STILL REMAINS THAT YOU CANNOT FORCE ONE TO CHANGE HIS OVERLEAVES, BUT IF YOU ARE SUCCESSFUL, IT WILL SIMPLY MEAN THAT ONE WAS READY TO SEEK THE CHANGE.

Is Self-destruction chosen in guilt or is it actually karmic?

IS NOT CHOSEN OUT OF GUILT BUT OUT OF EXPEDIENCY. GUILT IS A PHENOMENON OF THE PHYSICAL PLANE. YOU FEEL THE GUILT ONLY WHEN YOU ARE INCARNATE.

Why pay debts like that? Is this needed for their goal? Is this the fastest way?

PRIMARILY AS LEARNING EXPERIENCES. OFTEN THEY COMPLETE MONADS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE. KNOWING YOUR INTERNAL DEFINITIONS OF “GUILT”, WE WOULD PREFER THAT YOU THINK OF THIS NATURAL GUILT AS ACQUIRED SENSIBILITY.

Physical guilt versus natural guilt (no morality — bastardized it — the soul doesn’t feel guilt — not guilt but debt? Should this be the only type of guilt?

IDEALLY YES, OF COURSE, IF YOU FOLLOW OUR ADVICE IN NOT DOING THAT WHICH INTUITIVELY FEELS WRONG, THEN WHY SHOULD YOU FEEL ANY GUILT? GUILT IMPLIES THAT YOU DID SOMETHING INTUITIVELY WRONG.

Is expediency to the astral plane as guilt is to the physical plane?

YES, IT IS.

Why do we have to pay our debts?

YES, “RESPONSIBILITY” IS PERHAPS AS GOOD A WORD AS ANY.

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THE CHIEF FEATURE OF IMPATIENCE OVERRIDE’S PLEASURE OFTEN BY DRIVING THE SOUL TO RUSH RATHER THAN TO JUST BE WITH THE SITUATION. THE PROVERB “HASTE MAKES WASTE” WAS FIRST UTTERED BY SOMEONE OBSERVING A SOUL IN IMPATIENCE. YOU BURN CALORIES IN HASTE.

I observed Impatience in a gas line today [this was at the time of gasoline rationing during the energy crisis due to Middle East turmoil].

WE WOULD SAY THAT THE QUEUES ARE VERY GOOD FOR THIS IN SPITE OF THE INCONVENIENCE. THEY DO ALLOW ONE TO PHOTOGRAPH ONESELF IN CHIEF FEATURE. THIS IS ONE WAY — RELAXATION FORCED, OF COURSE, IS ANOTHER.

I’d like a comment from Michael on how best to learn or deal with Impatience.

THE BEST WAY TO COUNTERACT THE CHIEF FEATURE OF IMPATIENCE IS TO DELIBERATELY EXPOSE YOURSELF TO EXASPERATING SITUATIONS AND THEN PHOTOGRAPH THE FEELINGS AROUND THE IMPATIENCE. USUALLY YOU WILL FIND THAT THE REACTION IS HABIT RATHER THAN EMOTION, AND AMOUNTS TO A TAPE LOOP.

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