Originally Posted by
theuncertainty 
As I'm told often, sit with the feeling, acknowledge it, it'll lose it's immediacy and be just a feeling.
Good point. I've been instructed to do the same thing. Let the emotion do it's thing. That way it doesn't get buried under too much rational/conceptualization. The chances of something triggering an upsetting emotion that you forgot or didn't know was there, is less if you let yourself be emotional.