wHAT IS CONSCIENCE?

Conscience _ Sounds familiar to you, doesn’t it?
Must have heard it somewhere
Don’t bother to think too much ; it’s what sends that frustrating dose of guilt straight to your mind to make you believe “ YOU ARE BAD” , what you need to struggle with for hours to be able to get some sound sleep at night , what drives you mad and leaves you with gloomy remorse. Why do we get conscience striken?
It is not the thing we do which is inherently bad that makes us feel guilty , but it’s the badness and negativity we attatch to it personally , as a result of this , I believe , the frequency of having a guilty conscience depends little on how good or bad you are , yet tells a lot about how vast a domain badness is in your mind. Therefore , people who feel bound by certain imposed principles (like a religion ) are far more likely to feel guilty since their logic , which is not self created , leads them to refrain from doing many things they have the need for. Not being successful to meet these demanding requirements they end up feeling bad about themselves. The more religious a person is , and of course the more devotely religious he is , the wider will the scope of badness be defined for him consequently the more the chance of a conflict to occur between the real life and his ideal and , in turn , the more likely a guilty conscience will be.
Take , for example, a deeply religious man who will feel guilty several times during the day cause he does simple acts ,however insignificant, which he thinks of as against his religion.
According to phsychologists , this is a very destructive feeling which leaves long lasting scratches on your mentality , in other words it heavily damages your sense of self respect as you won’t respect a you whom you believe does not live up to standards.
I don’t remember ever having this feeling of remorse and guilt . Does this mean I never do anything bad? _yes it does . What allows me to make this claim is the loose defintion of the term bad . What is bad ? I have tried to restrict the teritory of badness to entail no more than some inherently bad things which I could never imagine my self doing . this way I never do anything for which I should feel guilty and I do conciously effort not to do what I really term bad . There is nothing more comforting than having a clear conscience and it also contributes effectively to your mental well being.
So it will be helpful if you write your own religion and moral rules , and try to be good within the specified framework .for doing so you need to write the few things you consider bad and name it the red zone , the rest is the free zone which you can visit without being bad . you can now experience how it feels to be an angel without your life turning into a hell , you can enjoy yourself and not feel bad . most importantly you can be healthy mentally and phisically.