In all the contemplative moves that involve a ‘pause,’ it’s interesting to think about exactly what we are pausing, When we ‘pause’ to allow a space for more experience to show, we pause our conceptualizing, and so, of course, we pause the emotions associated with them. We pause the stories, and the emotions associated with them.
We can pause the emotions, but that is harder; Nevertheless, it can be done; for example, we can pause anger by relocating ourselves, moving away from the situation (leave the room, for instance). Or, we can pause an emotion by bringing attention to the breath. And so on.
The conceptual mind reaches for a known mental-emotional world. It needs to be paused for a fresh feel of the whole situation. But we don’t and can’t pause Being. So, we aren’t pausing and can’t pause the feeling of being. We can ignore it (that’s dissociation), but we can’t pause felt being, because felt knowing is intrinsic to being sentient.
(As a by the way, I predict we will one day realize that a person in a coma has available to them a felt sense of being. This may be similar to, or even related, to the fact that a person in dream sleep can feel their breathing, while not feeling their body.)