1. WHEN (you identify the triggering or activating
events)
2. I FEEL (you identify the level of impact that
accompanies guilt)
3. I RESPOND BY (you identify the behaviours or
actions that accompany you feeling guilty)
4. BECAUSE (you identify the thinking that
accompanies the experience of GUILT)
WHEN
I violate my own moral code (I break my rule(s) actively
[action, comission]
I fail to live up to a shared moral code (I break my rule(s)
passively [inaction, omission]
I hurt the feelings of a significant other (friend, close
associate, spouse etc.)
Other WHENs
I experience FEELINGS associated with Guilt
to this level
I RESPOND BY
Escaping from the unhealthy pain of guilt in
self-defeating ways
Begging forgiveness from the person wronged
and promising
unrealistically that I will not sin again
Punishing myself physically or by deprivation (starving,
abstinence)
Disclaiming responsibility for wrong doing
Other Responses you make
BECAUSE
I assume that I have definitely committed the sin
I assume more personal responsibility than the situation
warrants
I assign far less responsibility to others than is
warranted
I do not think of mitigating (reasonable causes) factors
I
think that I will receive retribution (payback,
punishment)
Other Becauses
Please comment further those things you feel I need to
know to understand you and your experience of guilt?