mindfulness meditation...

One exercise that you can do is to focus your experience on your emotions. It can be a tricky exercise to do. The notion is that:

- You are not your emotions. What this means is that you can observe your emotions without getting lost in them / feeling consumed by them.
- Emotions come and go. The intensity ebbs and flows like waves lapping on a shore (you will find that out when you do the exercise). The point is to observe them and feel them without either clinging to them (trying to retain them) or pushing them away (refocusing ones attention on something else)
- Non-judgementally. You aren't moving. You are sitting there being aware of your internal states. There isn't any danger of acting out. Emotions just are... Like how you can observe the external world just as it is without judging aspects to be 'bad' or 'good' you can do the same in observing your internal world.

Sometimes we don't feel emotions because we are afraid we will act out (we are afraid of anger because we think we might thump someone - this is where meditation helps because you aren't moving you are just sitting)
Sometimes we don't feel emotions because we are afraid they will consume us by becoming too intense (meditation helps you learn that the intensity does ebb and flow)
Sometimes we don't feel emotions because we think that feeling certain emotions is 'bad' or 'wrong' (this is where lifting the judgement helps and just observing them like one can observe external objects)