By keeping a journal, you can help confront your emotions.

Confront those emotions that you're trying to ignore. Here's what you might do: keep a journal in which you write down your feelings. This journal is a way for you to introspect and examine the stuff that you're made of! By writing down and analyzing your feelings, you become aware of the core reason why you're feeling the way you are and the emotion becomes less intense. Some questions you could ask yourself when you're writing in your journal are:

• What am I feeling?
• When did it start?
• How am I feeling it (what does it make we want to do)?
• What were the triggers for this emotion?
• What images come to mind as I feel it?
• When else have I felt it? Is it familiar or something new?
• What would I like to say to the person/event/myself? Say it out loud - talk to your pillow.

Take the above example, you might discover that it is not really your friend's boy/girlfriend that you like so much, it's the idea behind it i.e. having a boy/girlfriend. You may discover that you're lonely, and you just want someone. By writing in the journal, you find all this out and solve the problem because you no longer like your best friend's boy/girlfriend and have something else to focus on, namely, finding yourself a boy/girlfriend! Alternatively, you can talk to someone.

Many people go to other people to help them deal with their emotions. The most common approach is psychotherapy. Some "alternative therapies" offer a way to counteract the physical effects of built up emotions, e.g.:

• Polarity Therapy
• Directed Pressure Point Technique
• Aura Soma

If you follow the links, you'll find an explanation of the theory behind each and how each works.