The Incredible Power Of Shame

In the past shame has been an influencing factor in society and on an individual daily life

The Cambridge Oxford dictionary says shame is a guilty feeling you experienced when you or someone behaved badly. Other dictionaries expressed it as an uncomfortable feeling, painful feelings, a regret arising from the consciousness of something undesirable, dishonourable, improper, ridiculous, and or an embarrassment. A feeling of being unworthy. It is a hidden power behind much of what occupies us in everyday life.

A person with a sense of shame will always maintain a kind of restraint against offending and will be modest, humble and diligent in whatever he does.

Shame is not equivalent to being timid or shy

Shame — A Conscious Inner Feeling Endowed To Human

I want to talk about shame in the spiritual context only. Shame is a conscious inner feeling endowed to man. It is a Godly motivator, a pathway towards regret and putting right the wrongs that we have done. It is a positive tool towards ‘’holiness, without which no man can see God’’. Can we then still say this in today's’ age of people believing they can go on, and do or behave in whatever way they can?

A virtuous life shames the ungodly

Today’s standard of shame is highly flawed. We see people doing what one cannot even consider in those days, and the openness in doing it makes one wonder why our people have lost their sense of shame.

A newspaper reported a man and a woman making love at the airport. The woman was at the airport to welcome her man back, after a long separation. These two had to be stopped by the police, led away to custody and fined. Do you want to ask where is the sense of shame in these two individuals?

Dealing With Shame

The emotional feeling that accompanies our shame can be frighteningly persuasive if we still have it in us. Some of us carry a terrible secret that is seldom discussed and never revealed, and we allow the shame to go on for ages inside us.

The fact is that nothing will change in your life until you get fed up with your present condition. So we need to forgive ourselves so that we can heal. It is fine if we still want to maintain secrecy, but it is best to let it out within us by sincere prayer and meditation. And believe in the power of forgiveness especially in relation to your past guilt.

Having a sense of shame also guides our future attitude in our daily walk with ourselves and others. We want to behave with dignity and integrity at all times.

Indeed a person who has lost her sense of shame is at the lowest and is comparable to an animal.

Maintain A Life Of Integrity

Thee easiest way to avoid shame is to endeavour to live a life of integrity in your daily walk in life. It is not all the time that you will be confronted with such an easy decision, not that easy, but rather you will have to make up your mind by being willing to choose to live a life of integrity, a life of consistently choosing the truth over falsehood.

To the extent that you are willing, there will be help. Remember, help is nearest when the need is greatest.

Some people prefer to seek counselling regards past hurts and bottle-ups, but I want to say that this will depend on you as a person. If you feel you can heal without this service, by all means, go ahead. There is no rule regards this.

Corporate Shame

Some organisations are subject to corporate shame by their actions that either demean people, shield their corporate responsibility to concentrate on profits to the detriment of people. A few years back, there was a protest against the organisers of London Fashion Week.

They were called to accountability by protesters who accused them of amassing several non-recyclable items to use during the fashion week, and fill up the landfill to its brim.

There are also some charitable organisations that want corporate industries to have accountability for their actions. They want them to question the way they operate their business instead of putting all effort on profits while throwing common sense up in the wind.

While an organisation is not able to be spiritually responsible for its action, it is the decision-makers of these organisations that are responsible for these actions.