Destruction and its associated emotions are some of the most widely recognized feelings experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. Destruction can be felt as guilt, self-recrimination, sinfulness, or regret. These learned emotions are generally ingrained starting at a very early age. Guilt is commonly used by society, family, school, and religion to suppress, punish, blame, and manipulate. While very few people live at this consciousness level permanently, most people carry substantial destructive emotions, conscious or unconscious, that lower their overall vibration and suppress their consciousness. It is an underlying emotion of victimhood consciousness.

Guilt and regret are tremendously uncomfortable emotions that tend to be repressed more than any other. When one carries a significant amount of these repressed feelings, there is a tendency to punish or sabotage oneself and project it onto others, who are then seen as wrong and bad. In addition, these emotions tend to create feelings of hate and rage that can be inner or outer-directed. Unrecognized and unprocessed guilt can make one prone to manipulation by others. On the other hand, one can have a healthy sense of regret or self-reproach, which is just a recognition that a mistake was made, along with a desire to no longer repeat the mistake. Beyond that, guilt only serves to create unnecessary pain.

The following are indicators of unprocessed destructive emotions: