Morita - Feel how you feel, but "keep on keeping on"

I like this Japanese approach to dealing with psychological issues.  Trying to fight, dwell on, or analyze emotions can be like trying to reverse river currents or ocean tides and can hold up progress towards one's own well being.  The "Morita" approach is to accept what you feel and redirect attentions towards day-to-day to-do's and take small, practical steps towards your goals.  The resulting sense of accomplishment can reward you with relief from emotional issues.  Here's an excerpt from the web site http://www.todoinstitute.org/morita.html (not mine), which explains this approach eloquently:

Self-centeredness and Suffering

In Western psychotherapy there are a great many labels which purport to diagnose and describe a person’s psychological functioning - depressed, obsessive, compulsive, codependent. Many of us begin to label ourselves this way, rather than investigate our own experience. If we observe our experience, we find that we have a flow of awareness which changes from moment to moment. When we become overly preoccupied with ourselves, our attention no longer flows freely, but becomes trapped by an unhealthy self-focus. The more we pay attention to our symptoms (our anxiety, for example) the more we fall into this trap. When we are absorbed by what we are doing, we are not anxious because our attention is engaged by activity. But when we try to “understand” or “fix” or “work through” feelings and issues, our self-focus is heightened and exercised. This often leads to more suffering rather than relief. How can we be released from such self-focused attention?

“The answer lies in practicing and mastering an attitude of being in touch with the outside world. This is called a reality-oriented attitude, which means, in short, liberation from self-centeredness.”
Takahisa Kora, M.D.