Emotions do not rule you, or run you. You are not susceptible to every emotion that comes along the way. Emotions are much like weather, coming and going. Some days are cloudy and some days are sunny. However, no one is such a master that they can always switching emotions at will. Even a great master has grumpy days. Not every day is going to be sunny. Even a master does not experience sunny days 24/7. Even the most enlightened among us have bad days. The only difference is that they don't take it so seriously, and might refrain from social interactions during those moments when they're feeling rather grumpy. Just accept that this is the way it is in the human condition, and don't berate yourself for lacking the ability to change emotions at will. This is a skill that takes great practice and time, and in fact takes a lifetime to learn. Emotions are unavoidable. It is part of the human experience and cannot be escaped.

You might as well accept now that, yes, you will feel anger again, you feel will feel sadness again, and you will feel depression again, and it might even be possible that you won't be able to take your attention off them. You will also feel happiness again, and joy. These are not unavailable to you. All emotions are available at all times. It is up to you what you decide to focus your attention on. Experiences can only be had if your attention is on them. If you do not give your attention to them, experiences simply disappear back into the ethers of unconsciousness. Emotions are experiences. Nothing more. You can choose what experience you want to have, but if you cannot take your attention off it, this is what I call a "consciousness loop." A consciousness loop could be considered an obsessive thought, or an indulged emotion.

Sometimes you cannot switch to another note on the scale of emotions because the emotional body needs to purge. The only thing to do when there is cloudy weather in your emotional body, and it resists being switched to a positive emotion, is to simply live through it until it passes, just the way that you live through rainy days until the sunny days come back. It is not possible to feel bliss all the time, for the physical body simply cannot hold this level of energy constantly. The physical body would burn out if you were experiencing bliss 24/7. Sometimes the cloudy weather is necessary in your emotional body in order to purge and cleanse spiritually, just the same way that it is necessary for the physical body to become ill once a year in order to keep the immune system up-to-date on new bacteria and viruses, and rebuild the antibody defenses. Simply allow your emotional body its time for illness, and the illness will pass more quickly. You might even want to take a "sick day" and do nurturing things for yourself in order to appease the emotional body and its needs. This could help in the switching of emotions.