Emotions are not rational

It is very strange how sometimes we try to block or calm down big emotions by a few mental phrases. Have you noticed ?

For example, if we are in a plane and we are very stressed about the idea of something going wrong. What is our immediate reaction and also the reaction of our entourage most of the time ?
"Come on, there is no reason to worry, because it will never happen, the probabilities of something going wrong are very very low".

And this is true of course : the chances of something happening to the plane are ridiculously low.

But the fact is the emotion does not care.
The emotion is not rational at all, why try to resonate it ? It will lead to a temporary calm down at best. But the emotion will still be here, waiting to be expressed or felt later, on one form or the other.

For me the best solution is to absolutely open to the emotion. Not necessarilly to express it, but to feel it completely, openly and deeply.
That is courageous.
Controling our emotion is not courageous, it is an escape.

Why fully open to an emotion that we just don't want to hear from ?

Because when we truly open to such emotions, something surprising happen.

First we realize that the emotion is not as big as it looked. We thought it was a monster whereas it was a tiny inoffensive little dragon.
Then, I noticed that contrary to what we think, we are not overwhelmed by the emotion, because we realize that we are not this emotion.
Opening to it basically means : "I can feel you because you are not me, I am the observer".
Emotion is just energy, it is not you.

So I wonder, why we still try to resonate, it just re-schedule the problem for later until we sit down once and for all and decide to face the issue for real.

Controling or reasoning is not facing the issue, it is escaping.
Feeling an emotion is like listening to a kid that was screaming and that just wanted to be listened to. Once listened to, the kid has no reason to scream anymore, it calms down naturally.

For me, like the picture above, feeling entirely an emotion opens up the parachute that allows us to land sweetly and gently in a new place of real inside balance.