To have good emotions, you have to have bad ones. There's nothing wrong with depression, because it balances happiness. There is nothing wrong with any emotion. What becomes wrong is when I tell myself that I shouldn't be feeling a certain way. Once I stop accepting what I'm feeling, that is when pain turns into suffering.
I can't control my emotions, not directly. I can only change my perspective. My emotions are what tells me that I'm looking at things from the right perspective. If I'm depressed and unhappy, then I know that it is because my perspective isn't serving me unless that is what I want. There's nothing wrong with the feeling, it's simply telling me something about the current state that I am in. If happy were universally good and sad was universally bad, then mania and heroin addiction wouldn't be diseases. Both make you feel good, to a fault.
As a side note, I am also extremely skeptical of the LoA. My opinion is that things don't work in the way that it proposes, and even if they did the only people that would be able to use it without pushing the things they want away are the people that didn't bother with it.
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