an enlightening experiment

I found a way to get out of the 'stuck in emotion' trap.
ofcourse it can be used in other situations as wekk, for example its
a good exercise towards a quest of self-discovery/analysis.

heres how:
At any arbitrary point of time, if its possible, try to find out
what emotion ur going thru, i mean try to label the undergoing emotion
in ur mind. The moment u identify, infact the very process will pop you
out of that particular emotive state. ofcourse u can say this is nothing
but replacing ur emotive state of mind with a rational mode of 'finding out',
and hence is very obvious, the after-effect i mean. but wats perplexing is that
most people dont even seem to be even aware of such a thing, infact if u do
this often, u will have that better control over urself, u will have discovered
more abt you and hence technically you wud be farther on the road to
self-enlightenment than many. phew...thats a lot of cliches;)

pls do try this on urself. it is quite fascinating.

Disclaimer: I do not say this is original,pathbreaking stuff, I think
every Buddist and NLP practictioner must have similar exercises,
jus that im sure I didnt consciously plagiarize. But maybe it was my
unconscious which came up with this taking input from the various
eastern philosophy books I must have read.

Addon: This simple experiment probably occurred to me when I was
striving to distinguish between feeling and thinking.