Here we open another chapter of our Emotions Tales. The guest of this week is unusual.
Notably, many emotions are crucial for our survival, for our well-being or our relationships. However, some emotions are really special, because they invite ourselves to change, either gently and/or overwhelmingly.
This is the case of Shame. It is hard to define it as a pure negative emotion, since it is often followed by positive consequences for the self.
A visionary article from Lickel e coll. (2014) demonstrated that Shame has a crucial role in motivating people to change. Thus, we need shame to become aware of our weakens in order to improve them for better. However, Shame hurts also a lot.
In other words shame can act as a ” double-edged sword” (Lickel et al., 2014;. p. 1058). Shame induces the need to change but also that of avoiding the pain which is required to change.
Music masters know perfectly how to use the bright side of shame..bringing shame and transform it into art..
Christina Aguilera – Beautiful
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