Why reasoning cannot be successful to get rid of feelings

Your personality is likely to frequently come up with unpleasant thoughts as a result of his process of interpretation, which in return are likely to be followed by experiences like guilt. Then he invests a quite a lot of time and energy in reasoning to get rid of these feelings, which means: try to put them in a 'logical' perspective, so that you do not have to repeat the thought pattern anymore. "I do not have to feel guilty since I did ...."

It often takes a lot of time in order to truly make this idea work, since it is not logical: the original interpretation is still there, only now you have come up with some twisted logic to make you believe that it is not as bad, wrong or whatever result your personality came up with in the first place. That is why it usurps a lot of mental space because you have to mentally repeat it to yourself (and often enough to other people as well) over and over again in order to try to make yourself believe in it. It cannot work very well, and you notice this yourself when the issue pops up again: you keep on repeating this reasoning that you have taught yourself, and you still experience some vague, unpleasant itching because you know that you have not solved it, you only made of it the best you could.

How is this possible? Because you have not let go of the original interpretation, you only have forced a certain response on yourself which somehow should give you the idea of being right yourself (at least according to your own interpretation), but does not give you inner Peace. A true solution can be found only in accepting what is and stop the judgment process, then you automatically do not experience the unpleasant things that follow from that: feelings (and in this situation: unpleasant ones). That you find yourself reluctant to do so, is because of all the personality issues he uses in order to maintain himself, like: wanting to be right, avoiding damage to your Self image, believing that you have to stand up for yourself etc. The fact that these personality goals imply that you have to face these smaller and bigger tensions in your life, is conveniently banned from your awareness. And imagine how much mental space would come available when you would not have to invest any energy in these processes anymore!