 Good day mate, 40 here. So for many intellectuals I grew up around, such as my father. Feelings were something that you should transcend through reason, but you can't think away your feelings. Now, you can modify your thinking to have an effect on feelings, but your feelings, your emotions and your body are all constantly affecting each other. So if you're feeling stressed, that's going to result in tighter muscles and that's also going to narrow the range of your thinking. So if you're thinking clearly and freely, that should reduce unnecessary emotional drama. And if you're free and easy in your body, that should reduce unnecessary emotional drama and constricted thinking. So your feelings are constantly affecting your thinking and your body. Your body is constantly affecting your feelings and your thinking. Your thinking is constantly affecting your emotions and your body. So they're all affecting each other. But one use of feelings that I've learned in 12 Step Work is feelings are a good indicator of your state of alignment, lack thereof. So there's a 12 Step concept that if we are disturbed, there is something wrong with us. And I just think that is incredibly challenging and profound. So for me, when I get out of alignment with my high power, when I get out of alignment with God, when I get out of alignment with my best self, I notice that my thinking becomes increasingly frightened and selfish and cruel and turbulent and that I tend to oscillate between feeling like nobody can touch me. I'm touchable, I'm in control. I'm a man, no grandiosity to feeling hopeless and helpless and incredibly vulnerable. So when I get on these great emotional jags, then that lets me know I'm out of alignment. So sometimes I'll be around other people and I'll start being afraid and I'll start feeling incredibly vulnerable and I'm wondering if other people like me. And that's always a signal that I'm out of alignment. Because when I'm in alignment, then when I'm around other people, I just want to be helpful. I want to be entertaining. I want to contribute. And so that's a useful orientation to be with around other people. And my fear, my vulnerability and my hopelessness and hopelessness starts to overwhelm me. That lets me know that I'm out of alignment and I need to get back to working the 12 steps.