Sentences with phrase «own guilt feelings»

If you agree with Bannon and Yeh that going full on all the time isn't just unhealthy but also bad business, there is still the less than minor matter of actually banishing the guilt you feel when you switch off.

I would like to think Obama's announcement is the guilt he feels over Prop 8.

If a person truly believes that they have been forgiven by the person they wronged, then that guilt they felt would be gone, and they could have a long and meaningful relationship with them.

It does not play on guilt feelings.

Her guilt feelings are in large part related to denial of affectional responses, and to rebellion against outwardly imposed goals.7

The awful moral choice forced on Senator Kerrey is a commonplace aspect of war, not understood at all by professors and editorial writers who imagine, with obscene hubris, that they could avoid the guilt feelings associated with combat.

Verbalization of one's past escapades before a sympathetic audience is actually a part of the cathartic process of working through one's guilt feelings.

When these guilt feelings are carefully examined, they focus upon nothing that the individual has actually done but upon diffuse social guilt or felt corporate guilt, based on actions that were partially or wholly out of one's own hands.

It also prevents the appropriate guilt feelings which accompany irresponsible relating.

Experiences during this process include feelings of unreality and shock, physical distress, preoccupation with the image and memory of the lost one, pouring out of grief, idealization of the deceased, guilt feelings, anger, loss of interest in usual activities, the unlearning of thousands of automatic responses involving the deceased, relearning of other responses, resumption of normal patterns of living, and the establishment of substitute relationships.

In some cases, this may arouse guilt feelings which block the catharsis of anger, jealousy, and sexual or destructive fantasies.

I just wish I could follow through with this and not have to face the guilt I feel just thinking about dropping them back off where I found them.

I couldn't deal with it... I became very angry and the amount of shame and guilt you feel when you are doing things that you know aren't healthy and you cant tell anybody, and it becomes for me a source of anger.»

Yet every pastor knows that some people are inordinately burdened with guilt feelings.

In the period when modern psychotherapy was born, many of those seeking help were crippled by neurotic, puritanical consciences which stifled their creativity and loaded them with neurotic guilt feelings.

Help maintain these guilt feelings as a tool for motivating them in [insert desired direction here].

Couples who have engaged in premarital intercourse, sometimes find guilt feelings plaguing them in marriage.

(e) Intense irrational fears, guilt feelings, obsessive thoughts, or compulsive actions.

Yet it was these sorts of people who brought themselves to Jesus; split, contradicting themselves, disgusted and despairing about themselves, hateful of themselves, hostile towards everybody else, afraid of life, burdened with guilt feelings, accusing and excusing themselves, fleeing from others into loneliness, fleeing from themselves.

Here again we are up against the trite notion that guilt feelings come from Christianity.

The guilt I feel has never gone away to how I allowed myself to go down the road of adultery where I was named as the woman he committed adultery with.

Too many non Christians claim this simply because they become uncomfortable with the guilt we all feel when we consider the concept of sin.

We must also remember constantly that the idea of sin should not lead to guilt feelings, simply because biblically, and in truly Christian thought, sin is known and recognized for what it is only after the recognition, proclamation, and experience of forgiveness.

It is true that the Church has concentrated too much on prohibitions, has declared (sexual) taboos, and has sometimes, in preaching on sin, internalized guilt feelings.

We are prevented from understanding these words of condemnation for what they are by two different things; our thirst for vengeance and our guilt feelings.

This very generalized guilt feeling keeps us from understanding this Word of God with simplicity, and leads us to approve condemnations for ourselves that go through us and above us, affecting those behind us.

The emphasis on the destructive effects of guilt feelings and anxiety seems to point the church away from stressing negative criticism.

Another thing this brings to mind for me is the constant guilt I felt in Christianity.

Author George E. Delury, jailed for poisoning and suffocating his wife, says in his written account of the affair that his guilt feelings were so strong they were «almost physical.»

We may admit that most guilt feelings which disturb the deeper level of the soul are misplaced, that they are a holdover in mature life from experiences in childhood which are irrelevant to the moral experience of the adult.

The therapist accepts the troubled neighbor in the midst of neurotic guilt feelings and compulsions, not on the narrow assumption that the neighbor is just privately acceptable by the therapist as a friendly human being, but on the much more basic assumption that every person, as human being, is accepted by being itself.

First, they alleviate guilt feelings in the audience by consistent reference to the Devil: «Jesus washes away all sins and the Devil is responsible for all backsliding.»

List the hurts, resentments, guilt feelings, and griefs that weigh on your mind.

Guilt feelings and excessive shyness often result from his inner struggles with blossoming sexuality.

On one level he feels overwhelming guilt feelings about his harming of them; on another level (often unconscious) his drinking may be a way of expressing hostility and resentment toward them.

A parent who is compulsively «moral» because of guilt feelings will project impossibly perfectionistic standards on the child.

To atone for her guilt feelings, she denied herself the satisfaction of remarriage.

A minister who is trained in counseling is equipped to help the alcoholic take his moral inventory in depth, to look below the surface behavior to some of the sources of resentment, self - pity, guilt feelings, and self - rejection which feed the behavior and push the person toward drinking.

Since awareness of guilt feelings is the first step toward their transformation, this is the place where efforts in worship should be concentrated initially.

If guilt feelings do not respond to the normal process of confession - reconciliation it may be because they are neurotic (or irrational) feelings (see Chap.

Millions of persons suffer from severe guilt feelings which are below the conscious level.

Hidden guilt feelings are brought into consciousness by being in the setting which represents the highest ideals of one's group.

But as a general pattern this seems to me a product of romanticism, taking with insufficient seriousness the «materialism of Christianity,» as William Temple called it, and quite likely to produce the wrong kind of guilt feelings in competent young people who are in or who are considering the ministry — as if this activity were not worthy of economic support.

Dr. Nicholas Cummings, a former president of the American Psychological Association, stated, «In my twenty years at Kaiser Permanente Health Maintenance Organization, 67 percent of the homosexuals who sought help from therapists for issues such as «the transient nature of relationships, disgust or guilt feelings about promiscuity, fear of disease, (and) a wish to have a traditional family» experienced various levels of success obtaining their goals.

During the building process, the minister is able to bury any lingering guilt feelings over theological responsibilities.

Since none of us can endure the pressure of guilt feelings indefinitely, we may become angry with those who cause them in us.

Because of our culture's programming of the sexes, men are usually more able than women to be assertive without triggering guilt feelings.

This marketing device also taps into the residual guilt felt by a person receiving something for nothing.

The recovered alcoholic is usually humbly ready to admit to previous guilt feelings.

Churches have had too little concern for understanding why people behave as they do and have been most relentless in their condemnation of acts contrary to social standards, with the result that many have responded with intense guilt feelings.