Blogpost 3 : The bad effects of conscience

Okay, so let's say that you could of saved someone's life, but you didn't. You will experience a sudden fear, a feeling like weight on your chest. It will feel uncomfortable. It might also show it's self as a few other things like the feeling that there's a hole in your torso.You will lose sleep and lose mental health. You will lack concentration. You will feel lonely. You will isolate yourself. You will want to talk to people over the web. You will never have enough time talking to the people you do want to, and the people you don't want to talk to will be there for longer. These are some of the general effects of a guilty conscience, in no particular order.

It's really a hard feeling when you know that there is something you could do but instead you just stood and do nothing. You may develop an anxiety disorder or depression. It may also lead to problems with avoidance behavior where you avoid some situations due to guilt or the possibility of guilt. It also hinders your ability to move on. Some people may say that there's a lot of good effect on our conscience but there are a lot of bad things to.

I found an article entitled "The bad effects of good conscience" in odewire. It tells about a theory by Bert Hellinger to the people without morals or standards who exterminate one another without feeling remorse but he said that they're actually acting in good conscience. Because collectively, bad people accepts who they are, they tend to overcome their fear of failure in life that's why most of the time good people tend to see themselves at the bad people's mercy. Unlike good people who doesn't accept the evil inside of them they tend to see failures as an excuse in life. That's why Hellinger urges the people to accept their shadow side.

Everyone has their own set of values. How you choose to conduct yourself is up to you. Your focus should be on being the best you that you can be. You will discover that that one mans truth is another mans lie. One mans trash is another mans treasure and so on. We all have our reasons for doing things the way we do. How we survive this changing situation is to be strong in our beliefs and values. Hold your head up knowing you are an honorable person no matter what someone else does.

Is there any solution to this conflict? The relationship between good and bad? From what I read in the article, yes there is a solution found out by Bert Hellinger. There's this third conscience that he identified called "spiritual conscience" In his words, this is what is stated in the article “The spirit is connected as well, but to everything, including its opposite. At that level, it is no longer about choosing sides for or against anyone else. The spiritual conscience stands for everything and everyone in service of peace.”

I really like the final statement in article. "Hellinger concludes that lasting peace is possible only if everyone is recognized as an equal participant—and that, he says, will happen only when a critical mass of people understands the harmful influences of conscience. Then we will be able to move beyond the inherent limits of pure goodness and embrace everything."

I agree with that statement. Understanding is the key for everything because if there is understanding, there is acceptance, if there is acceptance, we can understand one another. Because nothing in life is to be feared it is only to be understood. Remember, peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieve by understanding. Also knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people.