Guilt Trip Nº3
What is guilt?
Why do we experience it? Where does it come from?
Head to Guilt Trip Nº1 to ensure best results from the game.
The Guilt Trip game
The Guilt Trip is designed to challenge conditioned guilt. Featuring oddball guilt triggers, it asks you to question whether or not you actually need to feel guilty. You may experience 0 guilt. You could have aplenty and be A OK with dropping it. Other times it may feel absolutely necessary to keep it.
When the latter comes up, get some self reflection going. Moving away from the subconscious mind and towards conscious rational thought, check in with where that conditioning may have come from. Is it a belief picked up from your culture, society, social connections, romantic life, family, spirituality or somewhere else altogether? Challenge whether or not you’d like to keep it. It’s important to recognise that because guilt is learned, realistically someone or something got you believing feeling guilty was the right way to go.
How to play
Cut out the middle man and make your own decision. Ask yourself if you’d like to continue bringing guilt on the trip. Recognise when guilt feels genuinely applicable and when it’s less relevant. Assess if it’s in your favour and has a use. By all means if it’s handy keep it (me, preemptive guilt, brownies) but if it’s doing nothing but unnecessarily bringing you down, it sounds like extra baggage you don’t need to carry anymore.
Think about these “should I shan’t I?” packing questions:
Do I have the space to bring it with me?
Is guilt necessary here?If I have the space, is it worth my while bringing it along?
Is guilt serving me, does it have a purpose?Would I prefer to bring something else instead?
Is another emotion more applicable? Could it be switched for something less self-accusatory?
