Is feeling your emotions the same thing as watching your emotions?

[playdoh]

Osho is always talking about watching your thoughts. Would feeling your emotions be the same thing? 

[Razard86]

1 hour ago, playdoh said:

Osho is always talking about watching your thoughts. Would feeling your emotions be the same thing? 

The biggest fear is...desire/emotions/love. Your thoughts construct meaning which generates an emotional response and that emotional response....stimulates a thought. So feeling your emotions....can be the same...if you don't identify with it. Most cannot do that because they believe their own thoughts as truth. I would say until you can stop believing your own bullshit, your emotions will always control you.

Its why the Masculine suppresses emotion, because it believes its own bullshit and thus its emotions would overwhelm it. The Feminine Identifies with its emotion and doesn't suppress it, so it is overwhelmed by it. To integrate the two, you must understand the limits of your knowledge, which thus allows you to watch it without identification, which allows you use it like a tool. You thus can enjoy the ebb and flow of the emotion that arises in conjunction with the thought, without identification. So you can enjoy the world of thought and emotion...without becoming consumed by it.

How do you accomplish this? Deconstruct all of your beliefs....every single ONE OF THEM. Deconstruct it till you become empty, a void. Stop this avoidance...a dance around the void. Stop trying to avoid, a void. You are a void, that is trying to avoid what you are and you love to dance around it than to accept it. 

Deconstruct your creation (the ego), till it is seen for the illusion that it is. That would be insanity.....but reality is insane. So go jailbreak your mind!!! Deconstruct all meaning, all purpose, all values, awaken to that which cannot be described!!! Then....you will awaken. After that....feel into your emotions....and the love, the bliss will rise like a tidal wave and come crashing down and you will be in ecstasy. Now that wave....will return to stillness, but since you are that which does not identify, which does not chase, your peaceful state, your being....becomes the base line from which you operate.

[Gesundheit2]

@playdoh

Feeling your emotions could be done unconsciously. In fact, that's the default mode for most people. Most people are not really aware of their emotions. They just happen and they react to them in accordance to their default cultural programming. In which case, I would question even the term "feeling", cuz really it's mostly just thinking.

But typically, in spirituality/shadow work/self-help, feeling your emotions refers to a different thing from the above. It refers to a practice or a set of practices that assume that you have a blockage in the heart chakra and that you are too numb to feel your emotions. So it's mostly about clearing blockages, finding emotional clarity, bringing forth the right energy when needed, knowing what you want, overcoming fear and developing courage, trusting the guts, connecting with intuition, integrating the feminine, etc.

Watching your emotions, on the other hand, is done mainly by taking the previous and actively applying awareness to it. Possibly through the labeling technique or some other technique(s). It's mostly about observing the thoughts that accompany the various emotions that you're already feeling. So watching emotions is the next level of just feeling them. You can't watch your emotions without feeling them, but you can feel your emotions without watching them.

Edited November 26, 2022 by Gesundheit2

[NoN-RaTiOnAL]

there are different practices you can do with your emotions which will bring about different results
you can "watch" them as though from afar and create some detachment between them and you, mainly to help release blocks and experience the emotion fully without resistance, this will help you to understand your situation, instead of your idea about your situation. 
you can also try to analyze the emotion to realize how youre creating it with your mind and ideas, this will help you become conscious of your unconscious process and choose to react differently.