I woke up this morning with the keen sense that feelings are great blessings. They constitute an extensive network of receiving stations which expand our capacity for perception immensely. We are provided with a security and monitoring network that will tell us everything we need to know, and do so automatically.
The issue is with recurring emotions, emotions which properly belong in another time. We get those when we are absent when they are trying to tell us something. We also get those when they are imprinted on our nervous system in trauma.
I have for most of my life viewed feelings as a curse, because they torment me, and almost never give me anything good to feed on.
But, again, to get to a better emotional reality, often it helps–and often it is necessary–to plant the seed of a better idea.