2007-12-28 03:00:59 · 43 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Sure. otherwise it gets bottled up inside. Everyone is in a daliy struggle with themselves on the inside. So confess to help clear that struggle up. Peace!
2007-12-28 03:04:55 · answer #1 · answered by designer 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In theory you confess your sins, you receive forgiveness, it is supposed to be therapeutic and healing. Should make you feel happier and more content. Cleansed.
In reality, when I started doing confessions it was overwhelming as I brought up things that I regretted doing, but there was a sense of release. Then I started doing confession every week. That's when it got difficult. I didn't anything particularly "bad" to confess, so I would start dig deeper: I would confess that I should have called my parents more often, that I am not eating right, that I don't workout nearly enough and all that stuff that I feel guilty about. Steering all that guilt made me feel extremely uneasy - because where do you draw the line between the wrongs worth bringing up during confession and this nit-picking guilt-festering self-analysis? I did not have answer to that so I stopped confessing completely. I ask God to forgive my transgressions when I pray and that is it.
2007-12-28 03:16:44 · answer #2 · answered by Darya J 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Confessing to God is good for the soul, we cannot receive forgiveness unless we confess our sins.
Confessing to others often is only to relieve your own guilty conscience and only hurts the other person. If you've done something that would hurt someone and they don't know, why burden them with the pain of knowing?
Confess in silent prayer, make up for your wrongs in daily life by being better to the ones you have wronged.
2007-12-28 03:11:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes!! It clears out your mind, and cleanses your well-being. Holding things inside that NEED to be confessed are burdens on anyone's soul- and the problem will not be solved until it is told!
2007-12-28 03:06:48 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes - if you are talking simply about the admission of guilt. I believe a Truth and Reconciliation process is quite healthy for everyone.
If you're talking about the religious confession, then I'd say maybe. That act seems to me to be more focused on amassing or absolving guilt than it is on healing.
2007-12-28 03:06:48 · answer #5 · answered by Rasputin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that discussing something you're ashamed of with someone who will listen without judging and blaming is good for the psyche. Getting something off your chest, maybe finding out how it fits in with the rest of your life, often leads to self-forgiveness, which is good -- or maybe lead to acts to fix something that you may have broken, which is also good. In that sense, "confession" or whatever else you want to call it can be very therapeutic.
2007-12-28 03:06:25 · answer #6 · answered by Matthew O 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I do. I also believe you should confess to someone you can trust to keep your confession a secret and also not judge you.
2007-12-28 03:16:42 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I confessed a terrible deed recently and still feel the guilt and shame for what I did. I also begged and was granted forgiveness from the one I wronged. Yet, the shame and guilt is still there. What I did was totally out of character for me and I can't forgive myself.
2007-12-28 03:14:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes, I do and I am not Catholic. To speak out loud, things we have done that have caused us shame, pain or sadness can be very therapeutic. If it brings the confessor peace, then absolutely I believe it is good for the soul!
2007-12-28 03:05:57 · answer #9 · answered by sky64 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I couldn't hurt. Well, unless the confession leads to the wife comin upside your head with a tire iron.
2007-12-28 03:04:29 · answer #10 · answered by ‹(•¿•)› 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋