Processing Emotions
I&#x27;m not a fan of this discipline of managing and processing emotions as if they were opinions or the consequence of our thoughts.<p>Emotions are facts. This must be the premise. If you&#x27;ve felt them, they&#x27;ve happened already. The question is not &quot;what are you feeling?&quot; but rather, &quot;what are you going to do about what you&#x27;ve felt?&quot;<p>So as long as you&#x27;re not confusing what you can change, you&#x27;re good. You can prepare yourself and educate yourself for when you could feel something next time. But this is also already highly automated. Emotions tend to educate themselves. So I find a lot of this is just trusting yourself, and not overreaching into thinking you can change your past or twist the facts.<p>If you&#x27;re sad you&#x27;re sad. If you&#x27;re happy you&#x27;re happy.<p>It&#x27;s not so much managing your emotions. It&#x27;s more about managing the moment, and what you wish to do with yourself. It&#x27;s about managing the things that make you feel things.<p>If you hate your job, quit your job. Don&#x27;t manage the hate.<p>If you love someone, go for it. Don&#x27;t manage your love.<p>And so on.