[JanusthePhoenix]

Lots of threads on emotions lately.
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I'm wondering if anybody can shed some light on how to 'teach' your emotional side new things. I think the whole reason I detached myself from my emotions in the first place was that my emotional brain is really stupid.
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I've stretched and trained my logical brain to be very flexible now, programming and reprogramming it to adapt to new situations, new ideas and such and I love it. So has anyone had any success of this kind with their feelings? I don't want to give control back to my emotional side if it's going to be as immature and stupid as it always has been.
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How do our feelings 'learn'? Or do they at all?

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I have found that 'emotional learning' is very diffucult and for me has mostly come from emotional experiences. When you deal with things that have an emotional impact, the range of emotion at first can be very overwhelming but after time you start to recognise ques and you also start to learn ways of effectively dealing with your emotions. It's hard to say "today I am going to 'emtionally learn'" Alot of it comes from emotional experiences and trail and error. The biggest instrument for me was self-reflection (& trust me I am still a work in progress) just simply pay attention to your emotions (especially distructive negative emotions) try to trace them back to the cause and then evaluate ways to deal with them in a postive productive manner. Implent, then repair through mostly trial and error, I am not sure if there are more effective ways but this is what has worked for me. Also I have found that ignoring negative emotions disallows you to properly find the source and then repair what needs to be repaired generally causing more negative 'emotions' down the road. Actually seems fairly straight-forward, but learning to control your emotions and implenting postive-productive changes is one of the hardest things I have ever learnt to do.

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I'm not certain you can teach your emotional side new tricks. But I do believe that your thinking/rational (Ni, Te, Se) side learns and offsets your emotional side (Fi), hence creating the maturation effect of the individual.