As we will explore in a later chapter, the gift of anger is the physical, mental, and emotional strength to make change. If we feel guilty about something that's already taken place, we can use the anger to make amends, to clean things up. If there's nothing we can do, then we can use the energy of guilt to change the belief about how bad, wicked, terrible, immoral, despicable, disgusting, and downright slug-like our action was. Feeling bad is an important part in the mis use of guilt. In this limiting system, feeling guilty proves our goodness.
Good people feel bad when they do something bad.
A more productive use of guilt's energy is to change the belief . Good people are kind to others . Making these changes is not easy. The habit of using the energy of guilt in a limiting rather than expansive way is deep seated. It takes enormous energy and perseverance to change our response to guilt.