Understanding Guilt: The Useless Emotion?
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- You feel guilty when you rest.
- Your self-esteem is largely based on good performance in your career.
- Productivity is more important than health.
- The belief that hard work = happiness.
- You feel lazy even when you are in pain, experiencing trauma or adversity.
- You use busyness as a means of avoiding needs
go of the small self, you make a huge deal about it. Guilt arises from a powerful and disturbing feeling that you should be a better person. You want to be “good” all the time, but it’s impossible because being that good takes a lot of mind training, a lot of self-reflection and working with your habitual tendencies.
Dzigar Kongtrul • The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life
innate psychological components like regret. The feeling of guilt emerges when one measures their own actions and feelings against a purely personal standard.