How To Eliminate Guilt And Shame Feelings? Almost of your feelings affect your health if can be happiness, proud etc but how you can deal with guilt and shame. Let's see what can be done about guilt. However, many event, situations and also persons were reasons for this feelings. There are a lot of reasons make us feeling guilty as not doing something or anything when the situation called for it or bad behavior. Feeling guilty about something involves: -The effects of the past actions are not changeable. - Expecting punishment. - Focusing on past actions. The guilt can affect your health, can shorten your life too by weakens your immune system, increasing cortisol levels (cortisol is a stress hormone which make you "fight or flight" respinse. It activate systems to fight and increase blood pressure and heart disease, diabetes, depression,...