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Originally Posted by Open Eyes
Perhaps the slow music is uncomfortable because you do begin to feel and it sounds to me like you were never allowed to feel "normal" emotions, that it is ok to sit with them and talk about them and learn how to work through them and why you feel them and that it's ok to feel. Because of that lack of nurturing you have grown to hate emotions and you genuinely believe they are bad and a sign of weakness when they happen. This is something a lot of people struggle with and a lot of this comes from how a parent encouraged them to "not feel" or learn about their feelings and that having feelings is ok and normal. Actually, if human beings did not have emotions, human beings would not have survived and thrived in the way human beings have that was so successful where we dominate as a species. We would not have gained in our fight against diseases because there would not be that "care" to do so. We would not preserve life without caring, and we have learned that primates have a degree of "caring" that is essential to how they thrive and survive. We are learning how a lot of if not most mammals have a certain level of "caring" because it's so essential to surviving as a species. It is also the "caring" that compels human beings to study human beings to better understand human nature in an effort towards improving survival as well as learn how to best help ourselves thrive better and longer.
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Thanks for your insight. Unfortunately, I don't think this is the issue.
It's not that I feel uncomfortable with these feelings so much as I find "blue" emotions like sadness and longing painful. I avoid feeling those kind of feelings because I don't want to deal with the pain associated with them.
I would prefer feeling anger, not because it is more "manly" but because anger makes me feel like I have power and makes me feel motivated to actually do something about my problems instead of cry and complain about them. Crying to music and getting lost in my thoughts of longing about how I crave love or long for better times or whatever else serves no practical purpose and only hurts me further. Why deal with more needless pain when I could instead use anger to motivate myself to actually do something about my problems?