Instead of allowing feelings to control and, in effect, manipulate you into some boneheaded, often regrettable action, practice viewing the feelings as messengers and discover what is being delivered to you. The practice includes (1) acknowledging the feeling in your field of awareness; (2) allowing it to exist without immediately acting upon it; (3) assessing what triggered the feeling to come into your awareness; and (4) gaining understanding into why you're having that particular reaction to the trigger.
By engaging in this practice, you can increase your understanding of your cognitive perceptions of external stimuli that, consequently, produced the feelings that delivered the valuable message. Now, you can make an active decision to change your patterns of thinking to increase a new way of responding, thus feeling.
In my estimation, when this practice is practiced routinely it is a another notch in advancing your human evolution.
Thanks for taking the time,
james
