I'm cautiously finding it helpful to aim to balance my emotions. It seems to me that life in the wts and damaging upbringing unbalances us emotionally and then that has an impact on how we percieve and live life.
A marvellous tool for me is to take unavoidable destabilizing emotions into myself and watch it dilute itself in a huge sea of peaceful water.
Trying to push the emotion away or forget about it doesn't work for me becuase it always comes back when I least expect with damaging destructive outcomes. Mu emotions are so huge otherwise and they terrify me.