Feelings follow facts.

They’re not independent.

Specifically: feelings are read-outs of your views on what the facts are.

(Including facts about morality, aesthetics, your relationship with others, expectated futures, etc.)

So improving your ideas about facts, or your plans for engaging with the facts, can improve feelings.

Another way of putting this:

Feelings are comprehensible.

Feelings aren’t random or arbitrary. They always have reasons.

These reasons can be understood and improved.

Feelings follow genuine improvements to their underlying ideas.

They resist fake improvements. It has to be an improvement to the actual ideas they refer to, not what you think they must be about.

Feelings are hard to fool as a matter of logic.

Hence feelings can often be wiser than one’s explicit ideas.

They’re just tracking different information, so they aren’t infallible.

But they are bullshit-resistant. It’s difficult to fake feelings. (Again: they aren’t arbitrary!)