Copyright 2001, Colin C. Tipping

Repressed Guilt and Shame
Guilt is a universal human experience. Deep in our un-
conscious mind
 
we have such overwhelming guilt and
shame about the thought, albeit not true, that we sepa-
rated from God (the original sin), that we have no choice
but to repress this feeling. We absolutely could not
handle these emotions otherwise.
Please note that guilt and shame are not the same. We
feel guilt when we feel we have 
done
wrong. Shame
takes us to a deeper level of guilt where we have a
sense of actually 
being
wrong. With shame, the Ego
makes us feel inherently wrong at the very core of our
being. No shame or guilt is as deep seated as the
shame of the original sin, the central, but entirely false,
plank of the Ego’s belief system.
Shame Blocks Energy
Young children can be easily shamed, say, when they
wet themselves, get an erection, show anger, act shy,
and so on. While these may be natural occurrences,
the children nevertheless feel the shame, and the cu-
mulative effects of this feeling can become overwhelm-
ing. Consequently, they repress their shame, but it re-
mains in the unconscious mind as well as in the body.
It becomes locked into their system at the cellular level
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and creates an energy block in the body. If left unre-
solved for too long, this block gives rise to either men-
tal/emotional problems, physical problems or both. Re-
pressed emotion now is recognized by many research-
ers to be one of the principal causes of cancer.
Repressed Feelings
A large trauma, such as the death of a parent, can cause
a child to repress emotion. Likewise, something seem-
ingly insignificant, such as a casual critical remark in-
terpreted as meaningful, or an event incorrectly as-
sumed to be his/her fault, can cause emotions to be
repressed. For example, children nearly always inter-
pret a divorce as their fault. Research suggests that
children remember conversations their parents had
while they were still in the womb. A discussion about
an unwanted pregnancy before birth can lead to a child’s
feelings of being unwanted and fear of being aban-
doned. Such feelings would be repressed even at such
an early time in the child’s life.