Emotionlessness and Heart Chakra

[TheDarkChakra]

I have been thinking about myself and it seems that it is rare for me to feel an emotion of any kind. I used to think it was normal. I am usually on the boredom emotion but there's many things that I like to do, yet feel no emotion. I am thinking if my heart chakra is deficient. What's the best technique for Heart Chakra raising?

[CFTraveler]

It has been said (and I read, in other words, I didn't write this) that there are only two emotions: Love and fear.  Love is what makes us even want to be alive, and fear is the belief that there is the possibility that you can't have love.  According to this theory, when you feel angry, it is because you feel hurt, and feeling hurt happens when you don't feel that you are getting love of some sort.  In other words, all the 'positive/happy' emotions come from the belief in love, all the negative/angry/sad emotions come from the fear of either not being loved, or not being able to love.
Now this is mine:
We are being sold a bill of goods by society at large- the idea that we have to feel happy when we get something (buy something new or shiny) and if we don't there's something wrong with us.  Then we are constantly bombarded with the idea that there is something wrong with us, (how many 'depression medication' commercials are there on the airways, and other ads about not being thin enough, not being rich enough, etc.  So if  we don't fit into a prepackaged idea of what we should be, there must be something wrong with us, and if we do and still are not overjoyed by all these things we possess, then there must be something wrong with us.  Luckily we can take a pill to make it go away, or some other form of socially acceptable way to medicate your negative emotions away.
So before you label yourself as emotionally inadequate, ask yourself:
Do you get mad when something doesn't go right?  Does this mean that the situation brought a negative emotion (hurt, loss, fear) that you masked as anger?  Then you felt an emotion.
Second: Do you like something?  Do you want something? Or someone? (although 'want' isn't the word I'd use, I realize this society objectifies people- maybe I should say 'desire'.  Do you desire someone? Or the feeling they would give you?  Can you feel how you would feel if you had it/them?  If you can feel longing, you can feel love- it's just a matter of identifying it.
Sometimes a trauma in life can block you from identifying a feeling because of the pain associated with it, but the feeling is there-under the pain.  If you can feel the pain, you can feel the love.  The trick (or rather the hard work) is excavating that love from under that fear- accepting the fear, 'giving it it's due', forgiving it and letting it go.  Then, once you know that the love is there (even if it's underwhelming) then you can work on magnifying it- giving it it's proper place in your life.
Then I'd suggest heart chakra work- Simple energy work that stimulates your heart chakra- even awareness- but you have to exorcise the pain first.
As always, just my opinion.

[TheDarkChakra]

No, you feel emotion all of the time, you wouldn't understand. My Emotionlessness is not happiness or sadness. I do think positive and do positive things but intensity of awareness of emotions is different from feeling depressed or happy. I just need a meditation/exercise where I can work on my heart chakra to be more aware of my emotions, and not a lecture on emotions.

[Doringo]

That wasn't a lecture, that was advice. It was suggested you do that before you do heart chakra exercises.

[TheDarkChakra]

My love and happiness is perfect, I just need greater awareness of it, that's all. I am ready to work on my heart chakra.