Defining Humility

Humility is not only a virtue that you can build, but it may also benefit you in terms of physical health, mental health, relationships, and spirituality. This is also something you can do for the benefit of others.  

It is important to find and adopt a working definition of humility. There must be a distinction between making a
sincere decision about what we will do in a specific scenario, and actually living out the experience of acting humbly regardless of the consequences. In other words, there might be two types of humility—decisional humility and emotional humility. While they might occur linked together, they can also occur apart from each other. In fact, some people can experience one and never experience the other. 

The same is true for other virtues, like patience, forgiveness and self-control. You can decide to act humbly without experiencing the authentic, emotional experience of being humble. Or one can experience a sense of humility without having made a conscious decision to act humbly; it just seems to happen.