The feelings change after your thinking changes. For some things, it can take up to 2 years to counter some feelings that result from what others have negatively pounded into your brain.

It's a process, not an overnight miracle (though I believe that could happen.)

I believe this is why it says to focus your thinking, and practice... it will change how we feel.

I'm currently part of Dr Martin Seligman's Positive Psychology research... a grunt, if you will... and from the simple task I have, I have already improved my well being!

I only had to do the task for a few weeks, but I continue it because it works.... it's looking for good things that happen to others, and not only patting them on the back, but taking it one step more to tell others about the other person's good experience! (The study continues, whether I continue doing the experiment or not, because it's about how doing it affects me over time...for a year I think...)

There is something about finding good... things lovely, things honest, things praiseworthy that helps us be better and yes, feel better!

I read something, reheard it also... about the statistics of people who worry... and how only 8% really have something to "worry" about. Now that was secular study... how most ppl only worry about things that haven't happened... many worry about things that have already happened and can't be changed... some worry about things that don't exist...

God has told us not to worry about anything! If we can focus our minds on the good... if nothing else, the GOODNESS of GOD... our minds will be transformed ... and our cares of the day to day will no longer exist as worries, or ill feelings.

I try to go to God in prayer... not a down on my knees type position, but a mindful experience... always praising Him first, as that I believe is the reason He created us: to enjoy His magnificence! Once I praise Him, I realize how splendid He is, all powerful, all knowing, all gracious and merciful, and all present... He is everywhere.. He IS. What more good can we dwell upon?

I've found that as I continue to try and focus on the good in the world, and in others... the less room I have for the hatred, the tragedies, the garbage... and I don't miss it at all. I rarely watch the regular news, but selectively look for what I deem important to know... I have tolerance, imo, for the other, and others, but I don't have need for it, and it doesn't influence me and my thinking, my life, like it has in the past. If there's nothing I can do about it, then I guess I just have to let God deal with it