This is a really good question and one I find myself wondering about some times too. When I've messed up in my life, I pray to Heavenly Father and ask to feel properly sorry for what I've done, to realise that what I've done is not good and to really feel it! Some times it could be like a little kid taking a cookie from the cookie jar. The little kid isn't going to feel bad about taking that cookie unless he/she knows that taken that cookie without asking is wrong. Do you know what you have done is wrong? If you do you feel guilty and that is part of how you should feel when you want to repent as you acknowledge you have sinned. The next part is to feel sorry for what you have done. So you feel bad and your sorry that you've messed up. The next part is that we are sorry for betraying our father in heaven and we are also sorry for betraying the descision we made before we came to Earth in the great war in heaven. The descision we'd follow Jesus Christ by sinning we dig those nails into our savior. The next part of the repentant attitude, I think, is to feel truly sorry for betraying those things. So in a nutshell. Realising what we've done wrong (the feeling guilty). Being sorry for what we've done (to ourselves and any one we've harmed). Then realising how we've betrayed our Father in Heaven and Jesus Christ. Perhaps not in that order. Anyway thats my idea and it's a good idea to pray to have these feelings if you are thinking, I know it was bad but I just don't feel bad about it kinda thing. Hope that helped! =)
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