HEALTHY. Appropriate guilt
concerning performing a negative or thoughtless action or entertaining
unwholesome thoughts. These guilt reponses show us when we are thinking
and behaving in ways that are not good for life.
NEUROTIC. Inappropriate guilt
complex. The whole personality is pervaded by guilt that is not linked
to current events. This kind of guilt complex is usually installed into
somebody when they are young. In this case, we are often inappropriately
heavily chastised by influential people in our childhood - parents, guardians,
teachers, and other adult influences - and we have not been able to get
rid of the complex as we grew up and became adults ourselves. We may develop
a martyr
personality as we unconsciously hold on to the pains of the past.
This pain needs healing.
A neurotic guilt complex can make
us think and feel that we are a bad person when really we are not. A guilt complex
is usually a product of negative circumstance in childhood or any other highly
influential phase in our lives - eg; a negative partnership, a death.
This does not work, as eventually
the sympathy dries up and we perceive others responses as getting more and more
annoyed, dismissive or even hostile (the victim strategy ends up attracting
its opposite number which is the
tyrannt and the violator).
Unhealed pains, dejections,
disappointments, and chastisement are often held in the abdominal region (the
second chakra) and the shoulders (the
throat chakra) as physical tension, discomfort, and pain. This is quite
usual and normal.
We can begin to work out
this tension by learning how to breath into the abdomen, practicing
hatha yoga, learning yoga breathing techniques (pranayama), and learning
and practicing ENERGY
ENHANCEMENT.
