I think by simply doing the feeling exercise you are doing yourself a lot more good than you think.
Thinking about your thinking and thinking about your thinking may get yourself somewhere, but then again it may not. In my case, I can see how thinking about my thinking and feelings is just me doing what I have always done to solve what I perceive to be problems. In doing so, I merely get the results I've always gotten.
An interesting thing happened to me today, however. We had to do a presentation for class. I didn't really prepare for the presentation all that much (except in terms of information, I didn't focus on presenting skills). I noticed as I waited for my turn to go and make my presentation that I was paying more attention to the other presenters than my anxiety about going up. Usually I am pretty anxious. When I went up, I made my presentation, and made a few stupid mistakes, but when I got back I just realized what I did that was wrong and shrugged. I didn't feel embarassed or ashamed as would be usual for me.
It was very weird. I just know it is because of doing the feeling exercise so often.
This reinforces the belief I have in general mental exercises rather than specific, on the spot, thinking techniques to solve problems. I experienced a similar sort of result with Kevin Trudeau's Advanced Mega Memory course. While I was doing the exercises every day, I started to have crystal-clear flashes of memory for things that I didn't do any of the exercises with. My mental muscles were truly being strengthened.
I feel that this program seriously strengthens some mental muscles.
I know it's hard not to limit your indentity and sense of success with a job or career history, but you are more than your career history. Your career history does not say everything about your potential or who you are now.
Maybe focusing on the indentity portions of the exercises would be a good thing for you? Focus on the sense of self as creator, witness, appreciator, and energy in the now.
Who you are is much bigger than your career. The answer you seek might not have its location in careers anyway.
