When I am confronted with difficult feelings, or any feelings really, my tendency is to try to figure out how they can serve as lessons, make me more aware, and help me grow as a human being. I guess you could say this is my way of keeping feelings at a safe distance and under the control of my mind.
Some people create distance from their feelings by strategizing—focusing on how to change and improve them, or how to hold onto good feelings and stop them from disappearing. Others manage feelings by turning them into a story and continually narrating or describing them to themselves and everyone else.
