Let's begin the reflection round by simply sitting up straight,
Closing our eyes,
Taking a deep breath,
Relaxing here now into our body,
Into our being.
And you can once more connect to that element that you might feel currently guilty of within your life,
Within your being.
It can be the same one like you addressed in the initial survey moment.
So find something that might be gild-laden within your being.
And one initial thing that we can ask ourselves about this specific guilt that we feel is to sort of try to figure out what is the real size of this guilt.
So we heard that guilt has something to do with fitting in,
With belonging into a society,
Into a group of people,
Into a set of rules of some sort.
So how much is the guilt that you feel about this subject sort of just a bit of a mask that says,
Oh no,
I'm so terrible,
I'm so terrible,
Yeah,
I'm not doing it right,
I'm not,
I'm not,
I'm not.
But what is the core actually and what is just a mask of feeling guilty to sort of look good?
Like the little child who notices,
Well,
If I look remorseful,
I'll get less of a punishment.
So ask yourself for this specific guilt that you feel right now,
How much is it really yours,
Something you wish to correct,
Something you are grappling with,
And how much is it more of a social thing?
And you can write down a little bit if you want to.
So you can consider this like a moment again of putting the finger on the map.
Alright,
So feeling guilty about this.
What's the real deal?
What do I actually wish to correct here?
And what is more of a social mask?
We can take a moment to conclude this first reflection.
You can write down in your notebook.
And then you can take a look again at the guilt that you might currently feel.
Do another question or two just to be in contact with what we are currently guilty with or feeling guilty about.
And you can ask yourself,
For example,
Okay,
How does this guilt of mine affect my self-image?
How does it affect my confidence,
Self-worth?
If you want you could play around a little bit,
Bring in the guilt,
Take out the guilt,
Bring in the guilt,
Take out the guilt.
How does it affect your self-image,
Your sense of self,
The way you feel about yourself,
Your confidence,
Your self-worth?
How is it affected?
You can write down,
Feel it also in your body,
In your breathing.
You bring in the guilt,
How does it affect you,
The way you look upon yourself,
Feel about yourself,
Self-worth,
Inner strength,
Confidence.
Take a moment to conclude this one.
And then once more get in contact with the guilt,
Just feel it right then and there,
How it is right now with that particular issue of yours.
And then you could ask yourself,
What are the modes of punishment that you are currently choosing for this particular guilt issue?
How are you punishing yourself at the moment,
Because if there is guilt there is punishment.
How do you choose to punish yourself when it comes to this kind of guilt that you currently hold?
How is the guilt rippling forth into your life?
What kind of choices do you make that hold within them an explicit or implicit mode of punishing yourself in one way or another?
You might feel that one way of punishing yourself is actually reducing your sense of self,
Your self-image,
Your confidence.
Can you also find any others?
And then write them down.
You can conclude,
Hopefully you found a point or two of the ways how you punish yourself.
And for a moment we can just simply hold this issue of guilt within our awareness and applying to it our approach of observing,
Watching it.
Okay,
This is how guilt operates within my inner universe.
At least I'm seeing a snippet of it.
Okay.
And I'm going to accept the situation as it is right now.
I'm not going to pretend that I'm okay or that it's fine like this or like that,
If that's not how I feel.
I will just accept the situation as it is.
I feel guilty about this thing.
Alright.
That's what it is.
And let's welcome that feeling as something we can now address and work with and assign meaning and purpose to as we go from here.
That is very good.
See if you want to write down any final things.
And once you're ready,
You can come back slowly,
Always go step by step,
Reintegrating your feelings,
Your states as you return to the day to day reality.
