Sam Crabtree:
My awareness of sensations as related to moods and emotions has been (for me) uncharacteristically adept; in fact, I've had the sense that I now know what it really "feels" like to experience these different emotions, i.e. the waves of sensation they manifest as. At the same time I find myself simply appreciating the arising of these different emotions without any noticeable attachment.
Seems like you know what you are doing.
Here's a little experiment if you wish to do something else.
When a mood is experienced, try seeing all of the factors that seem to be coming together to compound/give rise to the 'mood'. You are aware of the bare sensations with their feeling tone (neutral, unpleasant, pleasant). Now become aware of why a mentally felt sense of 'mood' is jumping off of such vedana.
Is there a mentally felt sense of 'me-ness' or presence or self or location (in the world) or 'being' or existing that seems to accompany/overlay/jump off of the vedana experienced?
Does it feel like 'I' is experienced as a tangibly mentally felt experience that accompanies a 'mood' or IS the mood itself?
Perhaps watch the mentally felt sense of existing/being/me-ness/self/location/presence with the view that it has 'come to be' and it will manifest as this mood or that mood, with this flavour or that flavour and eventually will drop away if looked at dispassionately.
While doing this, you can keep the vedana seemingly acting as a support for the mood/felt sense of existing within the field of attention as well. See what happens when you watch this process of compounding of a 'mood'/felt sense of exisitng dispassionately. Try seeing the vedana from an angle where the mentally felt sense of exisiting/mood drops away and there is no sense of existing nor mood but just vedana. Play around with cause and effect.
How does one cut the fetter of identity view? By looking closely at that which is being misread/mentally felt as a sense of existing/being/me-ness/self/presence/location to see that it (the compounding of the aggregates) will show its arising and cessation.