Beautiful, BEAUTIFUL post @riverflows! As is your subsequent conversation with @eco-alex. Being truly AWARE of our emotions, as you emphasize in your article, is something I learned and began practicing (and subsequently taught my wife and son) about five years ago, having gleaned much about it from the likes of Eckhart Tolle (my gateway 'drug' to spiritualism), and it paid massive dividends. Being 'the witness', as they say. It not only works as an effective natural technique in gaining control of one's daily life, but it's also a very powerful introduction to one's own spirituality.
My dear, you have pointed out my absolute favorite very first step in finding one's true self, and done so quite eloquently. A wonderful eye opener, and thank you.
Lastly I will point out that, based on all my research, exaggerated emotions (like all else that ails us) are in no way in our nature, and a product of both our poisoning and our programming, none of which is by accident. I point this out because I believe strongly that the most effective means of mitigating our penchant for 'flying off the handle' is a combining of the techniques you employ, along with (to ease the process) cleaning one's physical body from the inside by way of lifestyle changes that bring the body back into alignment with its design, i.e., switching to the real foods our bodies were truly designed for ingesting.
Thank you and much love,
-Logan