The Guilt Trip

The guilt trip is one of the major tools for negative programing. It starts a very young age. The following are classics that are told to you with angry or shocked faces and maybe yelling but always meant to make you feel bad about yourself: “oh no look what you did” – “you ought to be ashamed of yourself” – “are you a moron?” – “is that all you’re going to say after what I did for you?” – “I just wished you cared” – “you better do something nice for grandma after all she did for you” And I am sure you could add plenty of your own but you get the point. And the guilt trip for gratitude is immense! And this gratitude guilt trip goes so far in some cultures as to owe someone for years for something they did for you. And of course if you don’t show gratitude like you have been TOLD to you are what? A bad person of course….and the negative train rolls on.