When we can feel our own natural shame, we get two vital aids for living.

Why, sometimes it's seemed to me that girls an' women ain't got an ounce of natural shame in their make-up.

Ifs not a matter of just feeling imperfect and accountable (as we do with natural shame).

When ifs a gift from God, the experience of our own natural shame makes us aware that we are fallible.

Because I guess you still got some natural shame in you a-runnin' with a prizefighter.

Guilt is often confused with natural shame, which is experienced as embarrassment and perhaps a flushed face, accompanied by a sense of fallibility.

We experience natural shame as a mild to moderate feeling of embarrassment when we notice ourselves making a mistake or being imperfect-!'

Natural shame (that is, healthy shame) tells us that we are imperfect and that we are not God.

Parents who refuse to embrace their own shame and be accountable teach the children that they can offend others without experiencing their own natural shame.

They carft feel their own natural shame because ifs repressed and covered up by the shame core induced in them by their own caregivers.

The parents experience their imperfectness - and natural shame - and make amends to the child, relieving the child of the sense of overwhelming shame and worthlessness.

Since natural shame is the emotion that leads people to accountability, people repressing their natural shame have great difficulty experiencing spirituality, which requires the ability to be accountable.

A natural shame and regret for his weakness and indecision prevented Augustus from confiding to me at once what a more intimate and unreserved communion afterward induced him to reveal.

Second, when our own natural shame tells us we are not the Higher Power, this awareness allows THE NATURE OF A CHILD / 95 us to be spiritual and humble enough to receive help from a Higher Power.