How often do you tune into your emotional vs thinking state during the day

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1. Thinking 95% during waking hours, 5% other during waking hours.

2. Hmmmm interesting question. I think I’m 50/50. But I have anxiety so I may be aware of the “emotional” more than others.

3. In a typical day, I’d say it’s pretty rare for me to tap into the emotional state. At least as OP describes it. That’s not to say that I’m emotionless. Rather, I simply don’t dwell on emotions or find myself consciously thinking about them very often.

4. Interesting question. I consider myself someone who, more often than not, wears their emotions on their sleeve. It’s something that, while it brings me joy and happiness, is self-monitored and kept in check to keep up appearances. Even though everyone derives happiness from being free to emote, “too much,” especially at the, “wrong time,” subjects one to social scrutiny. Irregardless, I (voluntarily or not) feel in-tune with my emotional state most of the time (more than half). Thinking state, or logical/analytical, comes along with performing nearly every task, so about 50% (like the other person said).

5. I have crazy anxiety and some trauma from my childhood so I can be super emo sometimes. Strangely though, it’s really the same set of circumstances that have made me more efficient, routine oriented, etc.

6. I find that it’s really ever only safe to tap into my emotional state when I’m being intimate or consuming some sort of media. When it comes to decision making, as much as I emotionally lean toward one potential decision, I can not actually declare that to be my decision if it is not logically sound. Also depends on how far down the rabbit hole I want to go when determining what is logically sound.

   I have often considered looking to be evaluated for autism due to this. But I fall into this weird state where I think that “there is no way there is something wrong with me, my decision is clearly the most logical for the “best” outcome and the people deciding a different way are too stupid/blinded my their emotions to see why my decision makes more sense.” So I start to think that maybe there is something wrong with me and my inability to comprehend that the benefit of choosing the decision others are picking

7. Meditation has taught me not to tune in too carefully to anything that arises, either thought or emotion. Both are just patterns in consciousness that arise and fade away. The less I identify or dwell on any of it, the better off I am. Of course, I’m an ordinary person so I think and feel like anyone else. I think a lot for work, but I’m not “tuning in” to my thoughts. I’m focused on a a task, and thinking supports the task. Sometimes if I’m troubled I used a technique called focusing to try to accurately identify what I’m feeling so I can name it and get some release.