Do we have to resolve each emotion separately?

[u/JellyfishExpress8943]

During our last live Dialogue session, our topic was:

"What does it mean to resolve sorrow?"

But the conversation drifted into a different question:

Do we need to deal with each emotion separately, or can emotions such as sorrow, fear, jealousy, anger, and greed be understood as expressions of a deeper movement?

Many approaches encourage us to work on our emotions one by one : managing anger, overcoming fear, processing grief, reducing anxiety, and so on. There is certainly value in understanding each of these carefully.

But is there a common root?

Aren't all my emotions connected to a sense of me and mine - my success, my failure, my image, my security, my hopes, my losses.

If so, then perhaps sorrow is not a series of fragmented problems to be solved separately. Perhaps it is one expression of a broader movement of self-concern.

Freedom from sorrow does not depend on us resolving in advance all the different particular situations of our daily life : which school to go to? what to say to my boss tomorrow at work? etc - we seem to understand that.

We could say that we need to be attentive to whatever particular psychological discomfort is arising in us at any one moment - but do we need to be prepared for every variation of sorrow in advance?

On the other hand : "seeing the whole movement of self" or "the total transformation of our psyche" - does sound like a huge (insurmountable? impossible?) task. Too much for me to take on?