Neurologists claim that every time you resist giving in to your negative emotions, you are actually rewiring your brain to be calmer and more peaceful. This is often easier said than done. It requires practice as well as some understanding about where your initial emotions originated. Sometimes we have a backlog of unexpressed emotions that must be acknowledged. Our attempts to release these emotions in the past may have been thwarted. By understanding how our original triggers developed, we can deal with the emotions better at their source. Some of their charge can be reduced by working with our feelings in a variety of ways. This helps bring clarity and increases our capacity to resist giving in to acting on unwanted negative emotions. Then we are better able to take appropriate action and thus succeed with developing new neuropathways.