Mood Management

If you cannot control how you feel and avoiding your feelings has negative consequences, the only recourse you have left is to manage your emotions. This involves understanding not only how you feel, but what use you can make of your feelings.
Managing emotional reactions means choosing how and when to express the emotions we feel. People who do a good job of managing emotions know that it’s healthy to express their feelings — but that it matters how (and when) they express them.