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I'm not sure how this is relevant because we all feel emotions, no ability to do that is needed. What is needed is the ability to recognise what we're feeling.... and then relax and let it go.

Hi Aloka-D. Well yes, but we often lose the ability. Our senses are often dulled because we stop believing in our emotions, and try to become immune (sometimes even using alcohol, medicines etc. to promote this).

They have indeed become irrelevant, come at inappropriate moments due to the fact that they have become associated with certain thoughts. When we have the same thoughts, the associated emotions pop-up, but are not necessarily as relevant as last time we had these thoughts. This basically is attachment.

Becoming open, wonderous, unprejudiced allows one to experience pure - only relevant - emotions, not an overreaction to what our parents did to us etc. These associations, or attachment of emotions to ideas, become dislodged through meditation: re-examining these associations briefly from different angles (and discovering the associations are erratic) as thoughts enter your mind, and you do not allow yourself to jump on the associated emotional bandwagon, but in stead you let the thoughts go, thus de-coupling the association, really a "bias", "preference" or "prejudice". One becomes more open and sensitive to perception and "pure" un-associated, un-prejudiced emotion. Not opionated.

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