We can ask The Questions when we feel any emotions, so that the feelings don't get buried in our bodies any longer and so they don't come back to bite us on the butt in the future.

And ideally we can do that when the feelings are at the early warning stage, before the emotions get more intense and maybe unpleasant.

2. What do I need to know or do about it?

3. Has absolutely the last little bit of that feeling gone yet? Keep asking the first two questions until it has.

Very often, we spiritual people are the worst at burying emotions, because we are constantly trying to be serenity, sweetness and light -- a beautiful goal, but it is definitely not achieved by trying NOT to feel our emotions.

We've been so afraid of what we considered to be the "dark" side of our nature that we've missed what our soul is trying to tell us, we've missed the messages. Trying not to feel the feelings has us actually burying them -- which as we now know might be OK in the short term, but makes things worse in the long run.