Featured Image by Don Nelson
According to an August 2012 post from Psychology Today, “Guilt is, first and foremost, an emotion… It’s more accurate to think of guilt as an internal state. In the overall scheme of emotions, guilt is in the general category of negative feeling states. It’s one of the “sad” emotions, which also include agony, grief, and loneliness, according to one comprehensive framework.”
However, like so many of our other emotions, we really don’t know why we have guilt other than it results from experiencing other emotions. Many psychiatrists and psychologist agree that its origin is from childhood when the child fears to show their true emotions due to acceptance or approval from their parents or peers. As they mature, guilt can create a negative inhibition.
Audio by II Volo 2010
How many times have we been told that an author’s book cover can make or break its success? They tell us a picture is worth a thousand words. Walt Disney is quoted as saying, “Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language”. There are thousands of quotes, but the message is still the same; pictures or images used for our books are essential marketing tools. My guess, as important as the catchy title.
