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260 Overcoming Negative Emotions

The Voluntary Life

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Anxiety and Guilt

His argument is that guilt, shame and anxiety are very primitive sort of social control tools. And they don't even work in your adult life,. They don't even help you. His idea is that rather than feeling guilty and feeling shame and feeling anxious, what you need to do is make restitution. So he does say that you should feel a remorse - like the acknowledgment, oi've done something that isn't right.

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