Is it humiliating to perform metanoias?

Unfortunately, some think that offering metanoias — especially before other people — is a kind of humiliation. If through prostrations in fear and trembling the heavenly beings bask in the light of the splendor of God, we also experience their awe when we participate with them in prostration. Thus does the believer experience a kind of awe when he performs metanoias in the right spirit.

321 St. Isaac of Nineveh, Mystic Treatises by Isaac of Nineveh , trans., A. J. Wensinck (Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1923) 5 (76): p. 52.