How Thinking Clouds our Emotions

In this video I show how thinking has "taken over" our ability to directly experience emotions. Before thinking, there was the direct experience of the emotional world.
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[@LocalOpinion247]

your talk shows plenty of trial and experience on the matter, interesting

[@Fireneedsair]

And emotion also clouds thinking.. and thought can keep bad emotions from being expressed. I’m really happy to have a rational, logical part of the brain to keep me balanced. I would not want to live my life as a pre 2 year old. Thinking is a gift and meditation has taught me that what I seek beyond thought is just a quiet awareness but not emotion. Just my two cents. Thought provoking for sure

[@BerkeAydin01]

It would be interesting to experience emotions without left brain's interpretation of them. In my experience, there is so much filtering done through thinking to a point where emotions can be suppressed without realizing the act of suppression. Perhaps a form of analysis paralysis with a dose of coping that comes along with the illusion of control.

[@JohnSmith190377]

Opposite for me I think, I have felt mega depressed since yesterday, then my thinking brain makes up a story about why it’s depressed and wants to die.