I think you need to understand the origins of the emotion, but you can (after understanding it) see it as mistaken. Say you are pissed because you did not fini

I think you need to understand the origins of the emotion, but you can (after understanding it) see it as mistaken. Say you are pissed because you did not finish a job, but your job performance is increasingly better. Your emotion is not guiding you anywhere useful. It can be useful to understand dispassionately, and then choose to endorse it (that is, this seems a feeling that points to a correct direction, I will thing about solutions) or not (that is, this seems a feeling that does not point to where I want to go, thank you for your message, but I would rather not act on it). Sometimes feelings are mistakes, like a optical illusion. Sometimes they are not.