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RE: How One Thought Can Kill You - The Tragic Error of Deciding Not To Feel Pain.
There are a few people who do not feel pain. Not many, because most of them die in their first years.
Also I suspect that 50% emotion is even understated. And most people are slaves to their emotion.
I recall hearing of people without pain, yes - though I don't recall ever researching them at all.
The enslaving aspect of emotions is not the emotions themselves, but rather the denial of them (Which causes them to get stuck and unable to move/evolve) and also the unloving thinking which essentially abuses them and controls them. There is nothing inherent about emotions that is enslaving.
No, emotions alone are not enslaving. They are guiding.
But their guiding function has developed in thousands of years that were completely different from our current environment. And the vast majority of people have lost the "connection" to their emotion, just reacting to them whenever they appear.
The disconnection is a literal lack of involvement of their own heart. The heart bonds thought and emotions and ultimately is the core of our being. To be without a core and without a union of these key part of self is hugely problematic, although I do not think this is a strictly modern problem by any means. We have a huge backlog of denied emotions to process and therefore also a huge library of mostly inaccurate beliefs and judgements to clear too!