I wrote this article on my own journey on trying to figure things out. This seems to work well for me so thought I'd share and maybe it will help someone else out.

Emotion are a very powerful part of every person. Emotions help us to connect with ourselves, our peers, our spirituality, and our world. However, our emotions a times seem to have a mind of their own and often people feel controlled by them.Some emotions are almost unbearable, like the sadness one feels for the lost of a loved one, or the anger one may feel when an injustice has been done to them. But each emotion serves a purpose, whether it be release of stress, to increase endorphins in the brain, or to trigger other emotions that motivate people into different directions.Many people, however, have yet to tame their emotions and so it is easier to create a wall or a buffer to maintain that control.

The Wall:
The wall is basically a mental decision to block or contain emotions and keeps them in a contained place where they won't surface. The wall can make a person feel numb or detached so they don't have to feel the emotions that cause them discomfort. The wall, however, blocks all of the emotions, not just the undesirable ones, so the person, for a time, walks around not feeling anything at all. This is not a natural state for humans, so eventually, the person feels the need or pull to reconnect. Often, they are afraid that it will again surface, so they began to internalize, and try to deal with it in the contained area. Most often, the reason for creating the wall is so they don't have to deal with the more negative emotions, so when they go into that spot, they become overwhelmed with the more negative emotions. It's easy for a person to get lost in them. The person begins to think of the situations that originally caused the wall, and those emotions begin to surface. Thoughts began to change and often the emotions become explosive.
For example, the wall is like a levy and the water is your emotions. Over time, the levy springs a leak and eventually the powerful water builds. The levy isn't strong enough to hold back all the water, and the levy crumbles. The water rushes out with such powerful force, that the levy can't be repaired or fixed until the water is flowing smooth again. By this time, alot of damage has already been done. This is why the wall is only a temporary fix.

So what is your Power Emotion? Your power emotion is the emotion brings you most power. The emotion that drives you and motivates you to push past all of the other emotions and life situations that are preventing you from living the life you want to live. We often think of emotions such as anger and depression as very negative emotions that should be avoided at all costs. But it is not the emotion that is bad, but how we use it. For me, I used to think that anger was my most powerful emotion. After my ex husband and I split up, I was a single mother of three kids. We had nothing and I was angry. I channeled that anger into getting my children out of the mess we were in. It pushed me past any doubts or fears that I had, and forced me to do whatever I had to do to take care of them. After time, when things settled down, I no longer needed that emotion and learned to balance the other emotions back in. I also realized that the anger was not my power emotion, but it was a catalyst for my power emotion to emerge, which was my passion. When I connect with the things that I am most passionate about, I am able to send that energy towards that passion and hence opening doors in that area.

In order to find your Power Emotion, you must first be in touch with all of your emotions. How they feel, how strong they are, what triggers them and which motivate you most. The best way is to keep a journal. Think about things in your past and different situation that caused alot of emotion. Look for patterns of the emotions that were strongest in you. Don't reflect yet on how you handled the situation, but the emotion itself. Write them down in your journal and allow yourself to feel this emotion, or have your mind wander back into that time that created that emotion , then allow yourself to feel it. If you have several emotions, go through the memories or situations with each emotions and pinpoint which one is strongest. When you have found, see if there is any other underlining emotions that triggered that emotion. If not, this is your power emotion. If there is another emotion underneath it, then this is probably your power emotion.

Once you figured out what your Power Emotion is, you are ready to tap into it. Emotions can turn into free floating energy, so like any other form of energy it must be directed. By doing this you want to make your target clear. Make your intention and motives pure, because like any other energy work, you don't want to harm anyone, you just want to harness a desired outcome in your life. Say you are looking for a desired job or a certain field and are looking to send energy that way in order to help you with that opportunity. You would want to tap into your Power Emotion, say it's love, you want to tap into the love energy and your love for that type of work, or your passion on what you will give to enhance the company, and then release that energy. If it's anger , you will need to channel it as you "need" this job, and the purpose of the need, before sending it out. The more important the need, the more effective it will be. If you have a hard time tapping into at first, think of a situation that brings out that emotion in you. Embrace the emotion, not the situation, and then direct it to where you are wanting it to go.