Not Attaching to Feelings

  From a Buddhist perspective, what do we do with feelings? I have read many accounts of this matter, and I am trying to articulate for myself what these perspectives mean. I think at the end of the day, it's important not to attach to feelings, but to see them more as useful information that might help in making a decision about something. If I attach to feelings and think of them as myself, I tend to shut out other conditions or perspectives that go into the making of the situation. Therefore, it's not useful for me to only base a decision exclusively or primarily on emotions that are fleeting and therefore impermanent.
   Another perspective I have been reading lately is that feelings often only represent one person's subjective experience. While they sometimes might also be an example of others' perspectives as well, it more often than not does not represent anyone else. For this reason, I find that it's best not to give into one particular feeling, but consider a more objective, multifaceted approach to the situation. This is in line with the Buddhist idea that there are simply no permanent states of being; they are rather always fleeting and tend to come and go. If I don't link these feelings to any particular story or narrative, I can just view their raw energy and allow them to emerge and pass away.
    It's most important that, from this perspective, the individual emotions are not as important as harmonizing with the totality of people and all beings. If I view it from this angle, only my own emotions can hurt me, and it's not possible for these emotions to do so if I am considering the totality of everyone and all sentient beings. This is a hard perspective to achieve, but I think that's the purpose of practicing meditation and reading spiritual writings.