Emotionally Empty / Free?

[TheSilver]

I have been using Emotional Freedom Techniques (i hope that many of you are familiar with this practice) to clear away negative emotions for much of the past year of my life.

However, recently there have been some rather huge emotional "traumas" in my life, and after using EFT to heal myself emotionally, many times I just feel empty. But not necessarily in a bad way.


It is becoming more and more common for me to take a mental "step back" from whatever it is that I'm experiencing at whatever moment in my day, my emotional feelings disappear and I just feel like I'm an observer of this world and not a character within it.


A few weeks ago, when it became obvious to me that this was happening, I would usually feel a deep-seated sense of dread, like I was "missing" my emotions, like feeling homesick. But after using EFT on that dread (I can think of no better word for that feeling), I'm just left empty I suppose, not happy or sad or worried, fearful, in pain, or ANYTHING.

I just observe my life for hours at a time, usually for my whole evenings, without feeling like I'm LIVING it.


Even as I write this, I feel nearly emotionless.

I would call this feeling bliss, but that just seems too "happy" a word, because within this state I do not feel joyful. I just do not feel anything, and I am neither fearful of it or excited to be experiencing it.


Have you guys felt this strange state of being? What do you think about it?

[Doringo]

The only time I've ever felt emotionally empty was when I was completely overwhelmed with negativity after a certain event, so it can't be that good..

I recovered and became upset again so it's fruitless too.

[Principle]

If this is how you feel afterwards, I would recommend not practicing it, or using this method anymore.
Your emotions are meant to be felt, If they are negative try your best to turn things into positivity.

Don't try to liberate yourself from the very emotions that keep you going in life, or fuel you to do certain things.
(Except Depression, and the negative outcome it could have on you)

Through meditation and time to yourself, many of your negative emotions will come to subside.

[Stookie]

It could be good or bad. You don't want to supress emotions, but it dosen't necessarily sound like you're doing that. If you look at it from a buhddist standpoint, a person on the path to enlightenment slowly removes all their desires. If you don't desire, you're not emotionally attatched to whatever you used to desire. You can still feel emotion, but you're in control, not the emotions. In this sense, there is more freedom in the choices you make because emotions aren't in the way. Once you separate emotions from perception, it's easier to experience the true joy behind life, not the made up happiness that comes from a temporarily fullfilled desire.

But if you're feeling empty or void, that's another thing.

[malganis]

Most probably it's just transitory. Everything that's created in material universe emerges, last some time (changing during the time) and vanishes. If you're resisting it you're fueling energy to it and that keeps it in existance.