Comments on: Does Guilt Have a Message for You? http://www.slowdownfast.com/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/ Brief Motivational Interventions Mirroring the Time-Limited Reality of Human Existence Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:11:54 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Mystic Madness http://www.slowdownfast.com/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-9194 Mystic Madness Mon, 06 Apr 2009 10:18:35 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/#comment-9194 I use the pen and paper logic. thats helping me a lot. For me its difficult to live with guilt and this is one of many ways that I choose. I use the pen and paper logic. thats helping me a lot. For me its difficult to live with guilt and this is one of many ways that I choose.

]]> By: Eugene Williams http://www.slowdownfast.com/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-8053 Eugene Williams Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:41:36 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/#comment-8053 Thanks David. There are times that I have those guilt feelings and I feel very bad,because I feel that I let someone down. My daughter has told me the same thing that you are saying. Dad you can't do everything in a day. I try to slow down but I find myself right back going at 100 mph. I wake up in the mornings thinking about what I have to do. I am going to start me a journal and see if that will help me to slow down. Keep up the good work. Eugene Thanks David. There are times that I have those guilt feelings and I feel very bad,because I feel that I let someone down. My daughter has told me the same thing that you are saying. Dad you can’t do everything in a day. I try to slow down but I find myself right back going at 100 mph. I wake up in the mornings thinking about what I have to do. I am going to start me a journal and see if that will help me to slow down. Keep up the good work.

Eugene

]]> By: David B. Bohl http://www.slowdownfast.com/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-8028 David B. Bohl Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:56:11 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/#comment-8028 Dina, Understood. Thanks for sharing. Regrets get the best of us more often than those things we do and fail at. David Dina,

Understood. Thanks for sharing. Regrets get the best of us more often than those things we do and fail at.

David

]]> By: Dina at Wordfeeder.com http://www.slowdownfast.com/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-8027 Dina at Wordfeeder.com Mon, 14 Jul 2008 16:53:08 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/#comment-8027 I experienced this very thing over the weekend. I had been indirectly invited to a child's birthday party/barbecue. It was someone who I've been meaning to get back in touch with, and who I'd like to keep in my life... but time just keeps slipping away. I felt guilty saying no, and I still feel guilty... even though I'm sure everyone else will be forgiving. After that I felt guilty that I should have started my work on Sunday, but instead I went and enjoyed some fireworks. I just couldn't fit it all in! :( Oh well, next time. I experienced this very thing over the weekend. I had been indirectly invited to a child’s birthday party/barbecue. It was someone who I’ve been meaning to get back in touch with, and who I’d like to keep in my life… but time just keeps slipping away. I felt guilty saying no, and I still feel guilty… even though I’m sure everyone else will be forgiving.

After that I felt guilty that I should have started my work on Sunday, but instead I went and enjoyed some fireworks.

I just couldn’t fit it all in! :( Oh well, next time.

]]> By: Carnival of Family Life | Colloquium http://www.slowdownfast.com/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-8025 Carnival of Family Life | Colloquium Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:35:58 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/#comment-8025 [...] B. Bohl presents Does Guilt Have a Message for You? posted at Slow Down Fast Today!. If you are “someone who, no matter how many right things you [...] [...] B. Bohl presents Does Guilt Have a Message for You? posted at Slow Down Fast Today!. If you are “someone who, no matter how many right things you [...]

]]> By: susanna http://www.slowdownfast.com/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-8013 susanna Sat, 12 Jul 2008 15:16:01 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/#comment-8013 A timely article David. In my opinion guilt is born out of leaving or not attending to our business until it's completed. This happens for a variety of reasons, maybe our current business is boring or seemingly unsatisfying in whatever way and we start thinking let's get some excitement going here and start pursuing something more interesting etc. If we can slow down enough to realize this before it's too late, we can go back and finish it. If we don't we may find ourselves ending up somewhere other than where we are meant to be. These days I believe that the only thing that is ever really important is what we are doing right now, then of course there can be no guilt. I read a quote a while ago, I can't remember who said it "If you start you better finish, if you don't want to finish it you better not start". A timely article David.

In my opinion guilt is born out of leaving or not attending to our business until it’s completed. This happens for a variety of reasons, maybe our current business is boring or seemingly unsatisfying in whatever way and we start thinking let’s get some excitement going here and start pursuing something more interesting etc. If we can slow down enough to realize this before it’s too late, we can go back and finish it. If we don’t we may find ourselves ending up somewhere other than where we are meant to be. These days I believe that the only thing that is ever really important is what we are doing right now, then of course there can be no guilt. I read a quote a while ago, I can’t remember who said it “If you start you better finish, if you don’t want to finish it you better not start”.

]]> By: Steve Mills http://www.slowdownfast.com/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-8005 Steve Mills Sat, 12 Jul 2008 06:02:17 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/#comment-8005 Good advice here. People are so busy thinking about what they should have done in the past, or should do in the future that they never enjoy or fully engage with the present. Meditation or just some quiet reflective time to sort through the guilt feelings and address them, instead if being continuously and mindlessly busy are what is needed. Good advice here. People are so busy thinking about what they should have done in the past, or should do in the future that they never enjoy or fully engage with the present. Meditation or just some quiet reflective time to sort through the guilt feelings and address them, instead if being continuously and mindlessly busy are what is needed.

]]> By: Sara at On Simplicity http://www.slowdownfast.com/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-8003 Sara at On Simplicity Sat, 12 Jul 2008 04:46:13 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/#comment-8003 I think you've got a great point that guilt doesn't always mean that we're not doing enough. Sometimes it's from doing too much, not enough, or simply disappointing someone you love by doing what's right for you. It's definitely worth thinking about instead of jumping to conclusions. I think you’ve got a great point that guilt doesn’t always mean that we’re not doing enough.

Sometimes it’s from doing too much, not enough, or simply disappointing someone you love by doing what’s right for you. It’s definitely worth thinking about instead of jumping to conclusions.

]]> By: Laurie http://www.slowdownfast.com/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-7998 Laurie Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:23:36 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/#comment-7998 You're absolutely right: we are doing too much. I've finally got my schedule under control (more or less!) when I finally learned to say 'no.' I found I was doing things that I really didn't enjoy and taking time away from things in my life that made me happy and satisfied. I realize now that a lot of what I was doing, I didn't have to. Now I'm creating balance and doing more of what I want and less of what I don't. You’re absolutely right: we are doing too much. I’ve finally got my schedule under control (more or less!) when I finally learned to say ‘no.’ I found I was doing things that I really didn’t enjoy and taking time away from things in my life that made me happy and satisfied. I realize now that a lot of what I was doing, I didn’t have to. Now I’m creating balance and doing more of what I want and less of what I don’t.

]]> By: Ari Koinuma http://www.slowdownfast.com/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/comment-page-1/#comment-7997 Ari Koinuma Fri, 11 Jul 2008 19:47:53 +0000 http://www.slowdownfast.com/blog/does-guilt-have-a-message-for-you/#comment-7997 Guilt happens when you make decisions that are against your values, and/or if you have a faulty self-esteem. A lot of times it's both. Yes, I agree, it has a message for you. It's a desperate cry of problems to come and heal them. ari Guilt happens when you make decisions that are against your values, and/or if you have a faulty self-esteem.

A lot of times it’s both.

Yes, I agree, it has a message for you. It’s a desperate cry of problems to come and heal them.

ari

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