Stop Feeling Guilty  

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We can define guilt as the bad feelings of remorse, regret, shame, loss, and so forth, resulting from events, real or imagined, from the past. Actually it is also possible for a person to experience guilt from an imagined future event. They vividly imagine doing something they consider would be inappropriate or ‘bad’ (or not doing something, where the ‘not doing’ is perceived as a bad thing) and then they feel guilty.

 

Such is the power of the imagination…

 

Guilt and conscience

It’s a good thing that humans have a conscience (well, most of us do), it helps us to stop repeating mistakes, or helps to stop us from making them. Having a conscience is a good thing, and feeling guilty is a normal human emotion, we all make mistakes from time to time.

 

Having excessive and prolonged guilty feelings is not a good thing…

 

Overcome excessive guilt

There are a truly vast variety of ways of ways that excessive guilt can manifest itself to the point of having a continued and negative effect on someone’s life. 

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Guilt is trained in, so it can be trained 'out'

Guilt is most often a learned pattern from when you were younger, and can interfere with the development of emotional intelligence, leaving the person less able to determine where the limits of their responsibility lie. That is why dealing with guilt can be so difficult.

It also makes you less able to distinguish between guilt or shame, and regret, which is a crucial difference. Regret allows you to learn and move on; guilt just holds you in the past.

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Guilt is universal

Well, almost universal. We don’t think we have met anyone who has never experienced the emotion. We all have times when we regret doing something, or saying something, or not doing or saying something. We see clients who have somehow got stuck in a rut where they have feelings of overwhelming guilt, and are unable to get on with their lives. All experiences are learning experiences, but you haven’t learned the lesson until you have integrated the experiences of the past and moved on.

 

Stop feeling guilty. NLP & Hypnosis can be very direct ways of solving problems

 Our hypnotist will involve the training of your conscious mind, your imagination, to think in more useful and resourceful ways. Get in touch to find out more about how you may stop feeling guilty with our help.

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Dealing with Guilt' will help you...

• Determine more accurately what is within your responsibility and how to deliberately choose to let things go

• Stop going over and over things in your mind.

• It will enable you to avoid being manipulated by those who use guilt on you (although people sometimes don't even know they are doing it)

• it will improve your relationship with yourself as you establish your own standards and live up to them, instead of other peoples'

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