This is Part 2 of the channeling of Arrogance, expanding the chief features of the Michael Teachings framework.   For the previous article, dealing with a full description on the dynamic and energy flow of Arrogance, see Part 1.

We will start by briefly repeating what arrogance is and then move on to healing and balancing methods.

Arrogance is built upon the fear of vulnerability. We have defined vulnerability in the past as a "coming forward" with the complete Self:

It has nothing to do with allowing another person unrestricted access to your energetic core. Vulnerability is about bringing yourself forward as you are.

Healing Arrogance

In this case, and in the case of any of the chief features, when we talk about healing, we simply mean acknowledgment of that energy without the fear that it is driving you. It is awareness that heals, because within that awareness is Love. Trying to "kill' any source of arrogance within you is the surest way to create another wall of an identity, even more elusive than the first.

The easiest and quickest way for those using the energy of arrogance, whether it's cardinal arrogance or ordinal arrogance is simply to become more accepting of the reality of one's Self. 

We repeat:

The easiest and quickest way to heal the energy of arrogance is to become accepting of your own energy — of who you are. The implication here is that you have to be willing to look at you are. From that perception, you must then be willing to work through all the judgments that you have about who you are.

There is a great deal of courage involved in the process of looking at who you are from a realistic basis, acknowledging the judgments that you have about yourself and simply letting them be:  not running, screaming in the other direction.  We do not underestimate the terror at the root of the arrogant.  It's a difficult thing to do for many people, because the overall the overriding typical first response in arrogance is to move as quickly away from the perception of Self as possible — which then becomes either the cloak of invisibility or the wall of projected identity.

Even if there is some movement in seeing the Self for who you are, it is also very possible to simply change the wall of identity to a different one, such as being one "on a healing path", "a screwed up person" or even as someone who "has had an enlightenment experience". Either way, it's still an identity that isn't the totality of who you are.

Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. Everyone has fears. Everyone feels judgments about themselves. The more willing a person with Arrogance is to look at some of the realities of themselves and be non-judgmental about them, the easier it is to blur the lines of that wall of identity and to not feel the necessity to be invisible.

Healing Arrogance Aid 1: Mindfulness.

Mindfulness meditation is the most useful tool that we know of to consistently look at things — whether it's themselves, others, or the state of the universe — with nonjudgment and equanimity. Understand that by examining your physical body which is your tool for interacting with the rest of the universe with dispassion and without judgment — whether a judgment to good or bad. By employing whatever aspect of mindfulness that you can, you learn to stop looking at yourself with a state of judgment and to stop seeing yourself as eternally empty.

We also give a visualization to help this:

Aid 2: Visualization

With this audio visualization, we are attempting to assist you with feeling this sense of inner identity that you have as a person in different situation. This takes away the attention to the outer shell, it takes away the attention to the cloak of invisibility, and it allows you to re-experience in different situations the being that You Are.

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Aid 3: An Exercise with a Partner

Ideally this exercise would be with any person that you trust:

Stand and face your partner from about three to four feet apart. If you know that you are the person who has the energy of arrogance, then this exercises is focused more on you; your partner is simply assisting you.  

Look each other in the eyes and imagine the connection that extends from your heart to theirs — and back again. Vividly see this connection, running back and forth to strengthen this connection.

As you imagine this connection that extends from your heart to theirs and back again ask them to say the following :

"I don't like you".

It is very, very important that you keep this heart connection at the same time they are saying this.

After doing this once, you can do this exercise once without imagining that heart connection and a second time while imagining that heart conviction, and feel the difference in your own internal response.  The heart connection, as you will learn, your lifeline to a vulnerability that does not crash down your world.

You can also do the essential part of this exercise at various points in the day at any time you are interacting with another person, even if they are unaware of it.  It can be your partner, a child, a parent, a boss or a colleague: simply imagine the connection that extends from your heart to theirs and back again.  Again, it's very important to imagine the connection back to your own heart. Simply fixate on that for a few moments at the beginning of an interaction that you are having with that person; it can be difficult to focus on the entire time so it is fine if your awareness shifts.  Simply imagine that: picture in your mind and affirm to yourself: "my heart is connected to their heart and their heart is connected to mine."

We guarantee that doing this will help you feel more comfortable within those interactions and keep those immediate protective responses that take you to the energy of arrogance to a minimum. In other words, you begin to be reacting less arrogantly in various interactions that you find yourself.

If you feel you are ready to listen to someone else's judgments about you — their perceptions about you — and if you feel that you will not immediately start piling your own judgments onto yourself as well, starting a "criticism fest" then there is an advanced version of this exercise that can be immensely healing and freeing within the confines of a particular relationship.  It can bring you closer and help you be more true to who you are:

Sit in a meditative state, dropping the cares of the day. 

In this meditative space, face the other person and concentrate on that heart connection that you have.

Now simply listen — without jumping to any conclusions — to one, two or three of their perceptions they have about you.  Simply listen.  Take it in to your heart, feeling that connection go back and forth between you again.  Feel their perceptions coming in part from their heart, coming back to you to help you be in a deeper connection with your own heart. 

We don't recommend having them make a long list, because you could end up getting lost and overwhelmed by it. Simply listen to one, two or three perceptions of theirs about who you are. 

Listen to that and take it in without adding your own judgments, without defending yourself, and without doing anything in terms of responding.  Concentrate solely on the connection from your heart to theirs and back again.  

Allow whatever reaction that you have and do your best — simply in this moment ‚ to let go of any desire you have of anything different.

This is an exercise that we would recommend only after you've become accustomed to some mindfulness practices and after you feel comfortable being present with the energy of this person: trusting who they are and trusting the process in yourself.

Conclusion

There is the perception when talking about any of the chief features that it's a negative energy that has to be gotten beyond. Arrogance is an energy of movement. It's a more dynamic energy. It can be highly effective in drawing other people to you. Because of that, Arrogance is highly useful in anyone who is overtly teaching others. This extends to all kinds of questions from politics to medicine to the obvious self-help field.

In our experience — talking to hundreds of thousands of people in various energetic combinations and permutations — we've found that people tend to live happier and more joyful lives when they are simply aware of who they are, aware of their perceptions and allow themselves to become accepting of their perceptions. Looking at the multitudinous network of different energetic combinations in people, we see chief features as a harmonious pattern that evolves along people that's constantly flowing, moving and juxtaposing. Every one of the energies that a person might take on in a given lifetime has its own perfection, beauty and completeness.

The more you see the utter perfection and beauty of your limitations, the more you can transcend them.