What I've been focusing on lately is making space for feelings with no expectation or agenda. Even in certain spiritual communities and teachings there is the message that certain feelings are lesser, that you’re doing something wrong if we're not in an eternal vibration of "love and light". Maybe you just need to meditate more to clear that negative energy. Focus on your visualization.
Ironically, excluding everything but positivity is extremely negative and will put you on the express lane to spiritual bypassment.
On top of being influenced by those dismissive ideas, I went through a long orthorexic period where I obsessed over diet and wellness. While those can be enormously helpful, they don’t work for what I was trying to use them for, which was to ward off the painful feelings and emotions that are natural elements of life.
I go through ups and downs, especially feeling housebound in quarantine. Some days I feel very on purpose, relaxed and lit up. Others I feel more weighted. Fear and loneliness come up.
I spend time with feelings now not as a means to an end, secretly hoping that doing so will make the difficult ones go away, but letting them wash over me for as long as they need to. This can be really scary when it’s something like depression, because with acknowledgement comes the fear that it might never end. And while I have experienced extended and very deep periods of depression in life, they have never lasted forever. This creates safety to open up to more and more. We’ve had a full bodied experience of the nature of impermanence, rather than just understanding the concept mentally.