Ignoring or denying negative emotions or events around you…

Ignoring or denying negative emotions or events around you does not lead to happiness. Negative emotions are useful and provide important signals about our environment and guide you in an appropriate response. The goal is not to just always have positive feelings of happiness but to also have reasonable feelings when you're unhappy.

— from The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)

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The third and healthiest way to handle a hard feeling is neither to dodge it nor to drown in it, but to confront it and use it as a catalyst for what you do next. Negative emotions are not malfunctions; they are signals about your environment, telling you something needs to change. Happiness and unhappiness, in the end, are twins that grow together — try to shrink the one and you shrink the other. — The Heart in the Cockpit (Emotion/Awe/Anxiety/Regret/Empathy)

Faking the sky. The answer is not to paper over the bad weather. Ignoring or denying your negative emotions does not produce happiness; those emotions carry real information and deserve a hearing. Happy lives are not stress-free, and a stress-free life would not, in fact, be a happy one. — Enjoy the Flight (Living/Balance/Happiness/Passion)

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