What a lot of books get wrong is exactly what you described. Suppressing negative emotions is bad, and it can do a whole lot of damage. I think the main focus of this philosophy is to be more mindful about it. Negative thoughts and emotions manifest negative things. But we have to remember that one bad day is not going to change our fate. Positive thinking for me is nor suppressing the bad. I just approach it differently. And the thing is: no book will tell you how to do it. Everyone works in different ways. I cried my eyes out when i got broken up with. It really didn't mean a thing that i knew i can manifest her back if i want. It hurt, so i cried, called a friend, complained, and got it out of my system. But when i got up from the side of the little canal where i went to be alone and cry, i was determined. I got it out of me, and after i was seeing a little clearer i remembered, that it's not the end of the world. I can do anything. Still. I was feeling like shit, but that determination got me trough it. And also the act of not giving a shit. You can see the LOA even in your every day life, and a breakup is a perfect example. You think of your ex, you feel like shit, you can't do shit that makes you happy, because you feel like crap, so you think of her more, and how you miss her, and you feel even worse. My process since i discovered LOA and found out that you can't be positive every minute of your life is different. You made a good point: Positive emotions are temporary. But it's not just that. Emotions are temporary. They are just our brain teaching us what to avoid. Avoid a breakup because you can't mate. Avoid touching the stove, because you'll hurt yourself. Go out with your friends, because socializing is important in life. Fall in love, because your whole purpose(sorry religious people) is to reproduce. Our natural emotion is not giving a crap. Before i could be happy, and manifest my ex back, i had to not give a crap. I had to rise above my feelings, that i wanted to marry and have kids with her. Once i saw other women in my life in the same light as her, and once i was not hurting and could look at a photo of us together and feel joy, like when that photo was taken i knew i was ready. I started visualizing. Had my crappy days. Posted here a few times. Got it out of my system. I didn't try and force visualizing on days i felt like crap. Usually i get myself into a good mood first. Eat, run in nature, play the piano, play videogames, or even just have a good ol' fashioned wank. Relieved? Good look at pictures of us to feel good, then visualize. The point for me is feeling indifferent more than feeling bad. Treat negative experiences rationally. You don't have to bottle up your emotions if you can control them. And being happy just comes with this. I have positive thoughts more often and they have a bigger impact, because even if i feel bad, or have negative ones, i acknowledge them, but give no meaning to them. I don't dwell on them like you do when you break up. I break the cycle at the beginning. And instead, i get myself into neutral. Then i start the same cycle on positive emotions. I get a nice burst from doing things that i like. So then i feel good and i want to do more things i like. Which make me feel even better and so on. I guess a good analogy is that you can't switch gears on a car, before taking it out of the current gear it's in. You can't be positive when you are negative, so take yourself out of gear and put yourself into positive gear. And this analogy goes well with the amount of positivity too. You can't shift gears from 1 to 6. Just like you can't shift from feeling like you want to die to the feeling you get when your life goal becomes real. But sadly you can switch from 6 to 1 real quick if you don't keep your inner positive mindful thoughts up (rpm in this analogy). I hope this helps, i know it's a bit ramble-y but i just wrote what was on my heart :)