What is the meaning of guilt and how does it make you feel? - Learning for children

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Guilt can be painful, but there is also reflective guilt that teaches the consequences of behavior.

People feel guilty many times when the behavior does not conform to the values, norms and there are also blame for both the action and the omission.

People may feel guilt and say for example:

• I should have done things.
• I should not have said.
• I should have said what I felt.

These behaviors can cause harm to the person and to others.

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How does reflective guilt help?

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Reflective guilt helps to see how the person is affected and, failing that, affects others, which allows:

• Help to advance.
• It helps to behave according to the code of values ​​that it has or acquires.

When people worry about the harm they can cause to other people, it is because they feel empathy, they feel that they are suffering and that they make a mistake.

There is a kind of reflection, it is a feeling of guilt of social emotion, and it is valid because it helps everyone to live in society. It is a defect that helps to grow and change.

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When should you attend to and take responsibility for the guilt you feel?

When it invades all the mental and emotional space, because it stops being a reflexive guilt to become a reproach. This does not help to advance, it hurts and sinks the person.

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This type of guilt is imposed far beyond what it really is, assumes many more consequences, assumes much more responsibility than it could have.

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Why can guilt feel like suffocation?

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This guilt comes to be felt when an evaluation is made of what happened, the value of this guilt in the person, points out a guilt of pain not only psychic but also in the body. People come to feel a physical pain, a very strong guilt that sometimes leads to shame, which is another social emotion, which instead of being more related to the person, has more to do with others.

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Benefits of guilt regarding suffering

There is a gain behind all this behavior, example:

• People feel grief and pain.
• He has a morality thought when he realizes the errors.
• The approval of the other person is sought, because of the guilt and reflection that has been had.
• It makes you have more control of things.

It is necessary to analyze what it is that maintains the feeling of guilt, so that in this way it helps to feel better, acting in the best way.

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Posted from my blog with SteemPress : http://cindycam.vornix.blog/2019/02/13/what-is-the-meaning-of-guilt-and-how-does-it-make-you-feel-learning-for-children/

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