You are not your feelings

[Plenum]

Ra stated that emotions are like signposts, which I think is very close to what some psych theories on affect (emotions) are also pointing to - they are merely markers. Emotions are also neither good/positive nor bad/negative. They are physiological markers that help us to make decisions on what to do like hearing car alarms and clocks telling us what time it is.

It's not so much the emotion that is important but how we interpret and react to those emotions (we assess emotional experience as being good or bad, we make inferences on who we think we are based on how we interpret our emotional experience, etc.). That is more domain of the mind complex, which is where we can do a lot of work to know self more.

so when one experiences an emotion, it is like a signalling for something.

what is the next step then, do you think?

how can we dig deeper, and locate the thing that is being signalled by the emotion?

I've personally found that emotions triggered in 'real time' or in real-life interactions can sort of 'stick' for a while in consciousness, but one is not able to process those emotions because one is in the middle of talking to someone, or one is required to devote the attention to continue one's task at work. In that case, the emotion might stay with me, or it might fade away as the mind moves elsewhere, but I make a mental note of the trigger and try to process it later when I have some free time.