Energy Level : Guilt 30-50

                                     

Level Your Life [Guilt 30-50]

Guilt , so commonly in our society to manipulate and punish, manifests itself in a variety of expressions, such as remorse , self-recrimination, masochism and the whole gamut of symptons of victimhood.
Unconscious Guilt results in psychosomatic disease, accident-proneness, and suicidal behaviours.
Many people sturggle with Guilt their entire lives, while others desperately attempt escape by amorally denying it altogether.

Guilt-domination results in a preoccupation with "sin", an unforgiving emotional attitude frequently exploited by religious demagogues , who use it for coercion and control.
Such "sin-and-salvation" merchants,obsessed with punishment, are likely either acting out their own guilt, or projecting it on to others.

Subcultures displaying the abberration of self-flagellation often manifest other regional forms of cruelty, such as the public, ritual killing of animals. Guilt provokes rage, and killing frequently is its expression.
Capital punishment is an example of how killing gratifies a Guilt-ridden populace. Our unforgiving society, for instance, scorns its victims in the press and metes out punishments that have never been demonstrated to have any deterrent or corrective value.

Energy Level : Shame 0-30

Level Your Life - [Shame 0-30]

The level of Shame is periously proximate to death, which may be chosen out of Shame as conscious suicide or more subtly elected by failure to take steps to prolong life. Death by avoidable accident is common here. We all have some awareness of the pain of "losing face", becoming descredited, or feeling like a "nonperson." In Shame, we hang our heads and slink away, wishing we were invisible.
Banishment is a traditional accompaniment of shame, and in primitive societies from which we all originate , banishment is equivalent to death.

Early life experiences that lead to Shame can warp the personality for a lifetime unless these issues are resolved.Shame, as Freud determinded, produces neurosis. It´s destructive to emotional and psycholigical health and, as consequence of low self-esteem, makes one prone to the development of physical illness.
The Shame-based personality is shy, withdrawn and introverted.
Shame is used as a tool of cruelty , and its victims often become cruel themselves. Shamed children are brutal to animals and to each other. The behaviour of people whose consciousness is only in the 20s is dangerous: They´re prone to hallucinations of an accusatory nature, as well as paranoia; some become psychotic or commit bizarre crimes.

Some Shame-based individuals compensate with perfectionism and rigidity, becoming driven and intolerant. Notorious examples are the moral extremists who form vigilante groups, projecting their own unconscious shame onto others whom they then  feel justified to righteously attacking. Serial killers have often acted out of sexual moralism, with the justification of punishing "bad" women.
Since it pulls down the whole level of personality, Shame results in a vulnerability to other negative emotions, and, therfore often produces false pride, anger , and guilt.