My mother said something to me once...

Allow your emotions to go "through you". I never really understood what she meant, until I realised that I needed to let them go. take them in and then let them go... through me, and out of me.

Emotion is seldom practical, the mind is practical. Emotion serves a different purpose entirely.

It is difficult not to let it control you, but you most certainly CAN learn to manage it, by allowing it to go "through you" xxx

Beautiful post.