personally i think that what you feel inside is just as true than what you perceive outside, in the end its the inner world that matters, not the external, when it comes to your reactions towards things in external world. i mean the causes of your emotions are inside, not outside. take some buddhist monk for an extreme example who sets himself in fire and burns to death while meditating as a protest and is able to ignore the pain that comes from the outside to his body, its a matter of his inner reactions to his skin burning, not about his skin burning. the trigger might come from outside, but how you deal with the triggers, are dictated by what is inside. so i dont think that your perceptions are untrue, even tho they might not be in line with the external world, they are just subjective. so its your attitude towards external things that need to change if its causing you troubles and to change this attitude, you need to work with your inner unconscious world(like you mentioned with the dialogue between your conscious and unconscious mind). for example, you might get strong negative emotions when you see an drug addict, the emotional response to this is true, even tho it might be overly strong because your dad was an heroin addict and killed himself with it, leaving you alone with your mom when you were 15. this naturally would had bean a traumatic thing to you and created a very strong complex about drugs, even if you would consciously think that "he was an idiot and deserved to die, because he was abusing me and my mom when he was on drugs and he was stupid enough to do drugs, so he is better off dead". now when you see some drug addict, its this complex that gets activated and causes you emotional troubles. i dont think that focusing on the emotions will help you with this, because emotions are the product of the problem, not the problem itself. if you smell gas in your apartment, it doesent help you if you keep smelling the gas, it helps you to find out where the gas leak is, so that you can stop it. and yes, the energy from those complexes(feeling toned associations around a common theme) needs to be released, by differentiating(/separating/channeling) different associations with the common theme. because if one thing gets associated to the complex, the whole complex gets triggered, like with my example with a drug complex, drugs are the common theme in it and the emotional associations to your dad gets easily triggered when something triggers the complex, as they are associated unconsciously in a feeling(not in analytical) level to each others. what i think would help in removing these unwanted feeling associations that cause you trouble, would be to create an analytical aspect to these things, so that they wouldnt be purely feeling toned associations, but those different aspects could be differentiated by giving them thinking aspect also. you have an tert Ti and tert is what works as the mediator between inferior and dom functions and inferior is what works as the doorway for unconscious materials. so asking, why, how etc questions about the causes of disturbing emotions and trying to figure out the answer that way might help a lot.