Reconnecting with Emotions and The Slowness of Fi

We live in a world that prioritize fast results disregarding all else.
People call it efficiency when they rush to do things at double speed and rush from one thing to the next.

I've noticed a lot of my problems growing up and past my adult life came from this fast rhythm that was expected of me. That I learned to abide to.

Have any of you ever noticed some shift in your life in the way you relate thought to your emotions?

I used to feel something and then think what it meant, but after being pushed into this faster paced lifestyle it inverted and for the longest time I couldn't put it into words what was happening.

Why am I not feeling connected as I used as a kid, am I not doing the right things? So why are my feelings basically numb and existing only on my head?

I shifted into thinking or feeling emotions inside my head as thoughts and then, sometimes, an emotion would appear on my body and I would just call it anxiety or re-think what I thought I felt.

THIS was it. THIS shift from Emotions into Thoughts to Thoughts into Emotions was the big shift in my life.
The big thing that disconnected me from things I used to be and do.

It was beaten into me through criticism, shame and expectations to be more rational and to explain myself properly. To act like a man is expected to, hiding and suppressing emotions so no outbursts would happen nor any clouding of my judgements.

I started to assume I was my mind and the emotions were things to be thought as an external fact, a reaction that could and should be controlled... or at least suppressed. And hearing praises from others surely helped the narrative.

And it all relates with what dictates the pacing in my life, am I going as slow as I would for myself? How fast I breath, I walk, I think, what kind of stresses I have. Everything had been shifted from the POV of others, of some future next thing I have to do, of some proper efficient way that my life should be aligned to, otherwise I would create waste.

Waste time, waste effort, waste waste waste.

Sorry for the wall of text. I think a

TL:DR
Being a people pleaser made me realize I was living life on the pacing of others, under the stress of not wanting to waste time and effort but trying to do a good job so I could spend my free time on me. And that was putting so much accumulated stress on me that the way I relate to my feelings changed.

I would Think and then Feel and that would tell me if 'I guessed right' or if the situation actually moved me emotionally. I wasn't connecting with anything, just running mental checks and looking inwards for approval.
When the young me would Feel and then Think, I would realize some emotions were not great or needed some working but they were me. They were not just a part of me but the actual human I am and understanding what moves and brings them forward was how I used to operate.

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Anyway, if you are someone trying to reconnect with your emotions then slowing down has done wonders to me.
I don't mean only alone time but actually slowing down your rhythm, the pacing, the steps you take, the way you breath, everything. Fi is really slow so a fast paced life seems to by-pass it or make it work on the back burner.

The slowdown of life made emotions start to surface for me, i am trying to unpack and connect deeper with them, but this has been my small enlightenment in hopes it is helpful to people out there.

Stay safe, everyone