Guilt is an emotion. Emotion stirs from our response to either internal or external stimuli. How we perceive a stimuli will influence our response to such stimuli. Guilt stirs up an emotion that hold us back and make us remorseful because of the perception we have concerning whatever is stirring such guilty feeling. Though not all guilty emotions are bad because guilty feeling is one of the ways life caution us concerning some of our actions.
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Greetings. Have you tried to feel the specific emotion of guilt and not the other feelings that have become 'guilty'? How does the alleged pure emotion of guilt feel to you?
As far as I am aware, guilt is an effect on other emotions and not an emotion in and of itself.
Really! In order for us to know if guilt is an emotion or not, we need to understand what emotion is. So if I should ask you, how do you define or describe emotion?
Emotion is the expression of our own will. Our will has feelings which may be repulsions or attractions to things, people and events. These feelings can be expressed by the will as emotions when they move in the self/body and become vibrations. Therefore, when people scream or wail (for example) this is their will's felt response being converted into moving energy and sound (emotion).
The will is the feminine aspect of self which is both sentient and greatly misunderstood. The will needs to be felt to be understood.
We express our will based on our perception. An expression of our will on something we have a contrary perception on will create a feeling of guilt. So if emotion creates reactions and response, that also means guilt is an emotion because it arises as a result of a response to the action of our will. did what I just wrote make any sense? Lol
Our will may be affected by perceptions, but also has a much deeper connection to objective reality - this is the origin of accurate intuition, for example.
As I understand what you are saying here, you are pointing to the way that it is possible to hold mental definitions which define that the true response of the will is wrong/bad and yes, in that case, guilt can be created. That is part of the problem here. The solution is to accept that the will and the mind are not fully aligned and to accept unconditionally, the expression/desire/need of the will and to then go on to enquire into the will to learn why the will feels as it does. As long as the feelings are fully accepted and not denied, then guilt will not be created.
While guilt can be created as part of the process of the will trying to give it's response, that does not mean that guilt is an emotion. Guilt is not produced by the will, rather it is forced into the will by the lack of loving acceptance the will may experience due to our lack of respect for its process. Guilt is in some senses a form of fear that says that the will is not good enough due to feeling as it does, but it does not move and emotions, by definition, are movements of energy.
This is certainly not an easy topic to understand and I appreciate your willingness to explore here!
You said, Guilt doesn't create movement of energy that is why it's not an emotion. You also said that if the action of the will is accepted, guilt will be non existent. I understand but guilt most times arises when we engage in actions contrary to our belief and this feeling of guilt creates a response in us that could either be positive (correction of the action generating the guilt) or negative ( sadness, fear and remorse) and these occurs in our emotion because they are all emotional responses( movement of energy).
Thanks for responding thus far, it's really interesting sharing thoughts with you. Let me not go further so that you won't get angry. Would love to converse with you some other time. Thanks
I do not get angry due to conversation and in any case there is nothing wrong with anger - the problem is guilt and denial that warps the anger and turns it into something dangerous ;)
You are assuming that all beliefs about behaviour, which our emotions desire to go against, is correct - when in reality many of our beliefs are false and thus we feel blamed for our true emotional response. The belief that anger is wrong is one of the most destructive beliefs we can hold. Other destructive beliefs that are commonly held include 'I must have manners in order to be accepted', 'There is a certain order to life on earth and must not go against it', 'I cannot be both good and feel good'. Guilt does not create a response so much as simply is a twisting of our emotional response. The twisting could create a new emotional response, but is not so likely to because the overall quality of guilt is that it is entropic (leading to death and loss of vibration) - it does not feel good.