Living Your Role & The Power of Choice: Aligning with Your Soul’s Path
Greetings everyone!
In the Michael Teachings, understanding our soul’s role is just the beginning. True growth happens when we integrate this knowledge into everyday life—living our role with purpose and making choices that align with our essence.
This month, we explore two fundamental aspects of spiritual development: expressing our role authentically and understanding how our choices shape our experiences.
"Living Your Role" delves into how each soul role finds fulfillment through work, relationships, and personal expression. It highlights the importance of aligning with our natural energy and avoiding paths that suppress our true essence.
"The Power of Choice" examines how different roles approach decision-making, how choices accelerate (or hinder) growth, and how we can learn from both positive and negative experiences.
Together, these pieces offer a practical guide to applying the teachings in real life. As you read, consider: Are you living your role to its fullest? How do your choices reflect your soul’s path?
Read on and explore how to bring more awareness, authenticity, and purpose into your journey.
With gratitude,
David Gregg
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1) Living The Role
When we say living the role we mean to use your role (or soul type) as guide for everything you endeavor toward in life. Your role is your primary directive, your means to steer your life in directions that prove the most satisfying for your soul. To live your role is to live an authentic life. An artisan who is blocked from being creative, a Priest who cannot inspire others -- these are people whose role gifts are under-utilized, leading to frustration and depression.
The role represents those vital aspects of spirit that makes a life whole and meaningful. A role gone unrecognized can result in frequent changes of employment, a restless spirit that rarely seems satisfied, and a life that wanders without purpose.
Most people discover their role pursuits naturally and without much searching. The demands of the role are often satisfied through work, hobbies, causes, or in their day-to-day approach to life.
Living the role is not about boosting the ego or exaggerating the virtues of a particular role energy, but simply recognizing the inherent beauty and potential of each role and knowing how to run that energy in more fulfilling ways.
People led astray are those that comply with the expectations of family and friends by choosing occupations or life pursuits unsuited for them. The artisan that sits in a corporate cubicle with little stimulation or creative outlets; the king that folds towels all day at a dry cleaners with no opportunity for advancement or the means to lead others or exhibit competence and mastery.
Occupations do not always match perfectly with the role -- life is rarely that convenient -- but if the role energy ceases to find an acceptable outlet, extreme dissatisfaction will cast a cloud over that lifetime.
SERVERS
If you are a server, look for an outlet that allows some control over the people in your environment. We don't mean this in a manipulative sense -- although a frustrated server may resort to manipulation -- but there should be the means to make a difference in the lives of the people around you, whether it's through service or support. This could be in preparing the coffee station at work, helping take collections at church, or working in a social services or health field where the well-being of others can be administered.
As a server you are a helper and a healer, and your personal energies will soar when placed in a position to assist others.
ARTISANS
Above all, the artisan seeks creative expression. An artisan without a creative outlet is one of the saddest beings you will likely encounter. It's not that they have lost their will to live, they are already not living -- at least in a spiritual sense. The good news is that the artisan can meet their need for creative expression in a variety of ways, from fine art to handiwork, from film acting to poetry, from athleticism to astrophysics.
What artisans must avoid -- if they hope to retain their sanity -- are work environments that stunt expression with repetitive and monotonous tasks. Novelty is the coin of the realm for the artisan, and without the freedom to tinker with projects and explore their originality, the artisan soul will feel caged and abandoned.
WARRIORS
If you are a warrior you need to feel challenged. Life often seems meaningless without maidens to save or dragons to slay. Knowing this about yourself should come as a welcome validation. You wield a powerful sword and are always ready to stand behind a worthy cause. With your natural strength, however, comes a responsibility to protect others, particularly those unable to defend themselves.
To live your role with the vigor and stamina that you bring. use your force of nature to stand up for what is right -- and you know this on an instinctive level. You have other talents to draw on, of course, but never forget that your strength holds things together and gets things done.
SCHOLARS
If you are a scholar you already realized there is little in life that you can't master -- or at the very least, do well. For that reason you tend to dabble a bit at everything, sometimes acquiring knowledge about the minutia in life that others tend to ignore -- but you enthusiastically record it anyway. Knowledge to you is the currency of your species and you recognize the value of its untold riches.
To live your role is to acknowledge that the acquisition of knowledge and know-how is paramount to who you are and why you exist. This acquisition may not be at the level of a college professor, but in any occupation or position. When you feel your curiosity aroused, off you go on a hunt for more information, be it a collection of recipes once prepared by a favorite aunt, or to learn how to assemble and reassemble the engine of a Model T Ford.
SAGES
If you are a sage you not only have the gift of gab but your sensitivity to the nuances of language (as it pertains to clear communication) are carefully honed. You pride yourself on expressing your thoughts and feelings in a way that not only communicates strong ideas, but leaves an impact on others that resonates long afterward. Like the scholar you are innately curious about the world but you not satisfied to merely record your findings. You become a mouthpiece for those ideas and teach them with an eloquence and authoritative power that exudes wisdom.
To live your role as a sage, remember that you were born to express the great ideas of the world. Sometimes you accomplish this through humor or on stage as an actor, but you are the voice that brings the dreams and ideas of others to life. Never forget that.
PRIESTS
If you are a priest you instinctively feel compassion for others. You possess an unlimited fountain of empathy, and when you attempt to turn it off -- sometimes out of sheer exhaustion -- the energy can back up like a clogged pipe and manifest as a loss of purpose and sometimes illness. To remain healthy your gifts of compassion and empathy should remain unobstructed. If you're living your role this is simply who you are.
As a priest you best live your role by helping others see the world through your own compassionate eyes. You were born to inspire others, no matter what your chosen profession, and whether or not you lead a congregation of followers, your effusive energy works like a benevolent virus that inspires others to spread what you started.
KINGS
If you are a king you are probably a commanding personality that seeks mastery in everything you do, often to the point of reaching for levels of perfection not humanly possible. Your demands for excellence are certainly in alignment with the energy you bring, but expectations of others can be too high (they are not as driven as you are) and this can lead to disappointment and fractured relationships.
To live your role as a king, let go of the need to control every detail in a project. Micro-management is not your strongest card. Rely on your talent for finding the right person for the job and use your charismatic skills as a natural leader to guide everyone to success -- be it a mega-corporation or a domestic household. As a king your greatest joy comes from helping others be their best in conjunction with a group working toward the same goal.
If you are a solitary king that is unaffiliated with a group or organization, you may overcompensate by being needlessly hard on yourself, damaging your influence in life with unrealistic expectations that leave you feeling off-kilter and lacking focus. Remember that magnanimity goes both ways. Learning to accept yourself despite your alleged flaws will be the greatest gift you ever receive.
Choice
One of Michael's most quoted phrases states that ALL IS CHOICE.
According to Michael, there are no good or bad choices. Each choice leads to an inevitable outcome and from that outcome we learn from the experience. Some choices feel better than others, of course, and that's the conundrum: learning how to make choices that accelerate growth and happiness. Still, since we are all eternal souls there is always something to be learned from the choices we make, both good or bad. We can't get them wrong.
This doesn't suggest an individual life should be thrown away — on the contrary. It simply means that the choices we make help shape our destiny and add to our collective experience as souls. Comprehending that our choices have value — no matter what the outcome — is instrumental in accepting life as it unfolds and embracing the richness it brings.
This may seem harsh if the consequence of a choice is particularly unpleasant or detrimental to another, but we can't learn from mistakes if we don't make them.
Michael (through me) offered the following words about choice.
Personal choice is an instrument of learning that's used to test the expression of yourself. From the stand point of growth, individual choice can never be wrong since it powerfully reasserts the pronouncement of your divinity and validates your existence in the world. Choices are neither good nor bad, but when they compromise the integrity of your higher purpose and negatively impact the choices of others, they will have ramifications. And from your perspective, the outcomes may not always be pleasant ones.
Any choice, either positive or negative, is reflected back to you in all of its resplendent glory. Since the Universe reflects any image you send to it, this can be a challenging lesson for some of you. When your personal mirror becomes tarnished by enough unpleasant experiences, you quickly learn to make different choices. Choices that hurt other people are the Universal equivalent of the child who learns not to touch a hot stove. Since the energy you expel is always returned to you in the same way you express it, much can be learned from burned fingers.
Q: How does our role affect choices?
A: Servers makes choices that benefit those around them (or at least what they subjectively feel to be the most beneficial). In the negative pole, they may limit the choices of others in order to serve them. This stems from a misguided belief that controlling people is the only way to be their caretaker.
Priests make choices that, of course, inspire others to seek greater aspirations and create a reflection of the Universe that's radiant and pure. In the negative pole, however, the choices of others may be dissuaded or circumvented until they match the personal vision of the Priest.
Artisans makes choices that add subtle hues to the canvas of life. Each choice is a soft brush stroke that adds layers of insight and creativity to a work that will always be in progress. Artisans in the negative pole will try to blur this canvas, as if they took a finger and smeared the wet paint until the image was unrecognizable. In this case, the choices will only serve to obscure and delude.
Sages often make choices that are highly conspicuous in order to draw attention to their personal truths, and they will find a way to communicate something in just about everything they do. In the negative pole, however, Sages might make choices based on how it affects others, in both positive and negative ways. There is little discrimination here; just a selfish desire to dramatize their choices before a captive audience, pun fully intended.
Warriors make choices that break new ground and punch through obstacles. They love anything that presents a challenge, and personal choices will often be weighed on their ability to maximize the benefit of a chosen ideal. In the negative pole, choices made by the Warrior can be swift and brutal, with little regard for the frail soul that crosses their path.
Kings make choices that can affect the greatest number of people. For this reason, there are fewer Kings than any other role. Kings usually make choices that encompass the greater good of all. In the negative pole, however, one errant choice by a King can destroy entire nations and create wide-scale damage. Repercussions from such an event will be felt for centuries to come.
Scholars make choices that strengthen their ability to broaden their understanding of the truth. These choices are often experiential, however, leading to a slippery slope that does not always fare well if too many risks are involved. Scholars are willing to take more chances than most roles, and to borrow an old cliche from TV, will "boldly go where no man has gone before." In the negative pole, Scholars can make choices that distance others. There can be a self-centered drive to obtain knowledge at all cost, even though their quest may be more theoretical than factual.
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