A sensitive and responsive mood can prompt you to bury your emotions beneath a thin veneer of impassive stoniness today. Yet while your distressing feelings will likely cease to plague you once they are suppressed in this fashion, you may find yourself becoming detached and isolated from others. You can regain your ability to feel, while also taking control of your emotions today, by learning to deal with your feelings in a productive and practical way. If you allow your emotions to come into the forefront of your mind without judging them, you may discover that they can tell you much about your relationship to your environment. Your feelings can become the catalyst that enables you to change your life for the better, provided you recognize their worth.

We are empowered to take control of our emotions when we are honest with ourselves regarding the nature of our feelings. Though it is often tempting to sweep the emotions that distress us under the cover of our subconscious minds, doing so only brings temporary relief. The simplest way to foster happiness and contentment within ourselves is to honor and accept our feelings. We may not always appreciate the hidden value of those emotions that we deem to be negative, but we can examine them to determine why we feel as we do, and how we can regain our emotional equilibrium. As we come to understand our reactions to the various stimuli we face each day, we become stewards of our own positivity. When you analyze your feelings constructively today, you will enjoy a greater degree of emotional freedom.