How to deal with dark emotions
Dark emotions have a strong magnetism toward the old. They switch on the fearful thoughts that dominated our lives in the past.
Some techniques can work occasionally, but they won't on the long term, for the use of a technique pinpoints a problem. You're literally telling yourself "there's something wrong with this feeling, get rid of it".
If you're deep into the law of assumption & similar manifestation frameworks, you might accidentally develop a visceral rejection to anything that has to do with the old self. Something like that happened to me. An old mechanism labeled those uncomfortable emotions as "bad for the system". But it was like putting more wood into the fire.
Two weeks ago I realized that every emotion is a gift, and just like when you're gifted something - even if you don't like it - you must not doubt the loving nature from the act of giving. In other words, you must allow yourself to receive.
This is incredibly simple, but we tend to omit the value of the simplest things. What I did is just to feel it. To feel the pain. The sadness. The lack. Everything. In the moment I allowed myself to feel it, the negative emotions stopped having any effect whatsoever and they dissolved to leave space for more blissful states.