I've been thinking a lot lately about how my default reaction to feeling down is to try to talk and logic my way out of it, but that only helps if the source of the pain is my own thoughts.
Often I'm swamped by feelings I can't rationalize with because they didn't come from my mind. I need *feel* my way out in those situations, but I don't know how to do that. I don't know how to intentionally alter my emotional state with any reliability.