Mescalito

What do you think about dwelling on/in a particular feeling? Like when you are sad.. feeling down.. do you ever feel like you are making it longer for other reasons. Like you can change how you feel at any moment.. but regardless of the feeling being perceived as a negative one.. you want it to continue. Is that what they mean by emo? Alternatively if we are happy.. is there a problem with trying to somewhat sustain the feeling?

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Jungle Monkey

SageTree

When I'm down and I reside in the feeling, I suppose I'm being in touch with it and seeing what the root cause is for getting to that point. It's a learning experience. As for a happy feeling. I think alot of simple things make me happy, but I have never analized a good feeling the same way as a bad one. Minus sitting around on psychadelics.

Either feeling I usual sit with rather than be absorbed in. Just looking at a feeling and seeing it for what it is, a passing changing sensation. I am not swayed to either extreme. My 5 outa 5 is how I feel, althought it might only look like a 3.5 to someone else. But I rarely feel very low, which make me really consider the relativity to which is all happens. Sometimes the time isn't right to send the needle soaring in either direction.

More my perceptions while I'm thinking about them, but certainly feeling comfortable being with that feeling, perhaps longer than needed sometimes, but I honour it that it's not bad if that is what I feel like I need. I just have to recognize when its not causing any more gain, so I do what I need to, to get back in a PMA, which is why I feel I can delve and not get sucked in, in the first place, or atleast put the breaks on when it called for.

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verklingen

i'm not overly concerned with sustaining feelings or making feelings go away. i used to be very interested in this, but now i'm treating feelings like new tools i've yet to discover the use for. i'm trying to be a lot more critical of myself and figure out why i feel the way that i do in hopes that i will be able to better understand how to use my feelings to produce a life experience which more accurately represents what i say i've always said i want out of it. i feel that these feelings will lead me there.

or in other words, i'm trying to make the journey not so bewildering.

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