Dealing With Unwanted Emotions

When people have difficult, tough emotions, they very often have one of two ways of responding. The first is what i call ing and buttling - pushing aside the difficulty motion. But there's a body of research showing that when we push aside these difficult emotions, there's actually an amplification effect. And so brooding is similarly associated with lower levels of well being, agal attainment and tionships. When we hold the book so tightly to ourselves,  we're not able to see it as giving us a chance to be wise in the world.