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Originally Posted by The Cloud  Why do actions have to be dictated by irrational feelings like feeling bad when something good like being complimented happens to you, or feeling good when something like breaking a diet happens? How did broken feelings become our masters, so much so that we spend more time trying to manipulate our feelings than we do trying to live our lives? |
Hmmm... I don't think our actions are dicated by our feelings. I think both our actions and feelings are the result of our beliefs, state of consciousness and such. If I hold the belief that "getting a compliment is evil and dangerous", then it's not "something good" anymore. I don't see feelings as irrational, I see them as signals pointing to my beliefs, and when I feel bad then it points to some limiting belief. Does this make any sense?
EFT is not about manipulating our feelings. It's about reclaiming our power from them, it's about not letting them be our masters and hold us back anymore. When you do EFT, you recover your ability to behave the way you choose to regardless of your issues. The issues themselves don't disappear, but they don't make you feel bad to the point of modifying your behavior anymore.
It sounds a lot like what you're doing, actually. Except that you don't tap.
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What if, by trying to be free of the tight feeling in your chest, you become its slave? It seems that both fighting and appeasing these feelings just makes them stronger.
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EFT is not at all about appeasing or fighting feelings, really.
About your experiment: just to make sure I understand you correctly before I reply: you're talking about repressing/ignoring, then you say it's not about repressing or ignoring. What is it exactly?
When you say you refuse to feel them, you disconnect from them, right?