Surrendering to our feelings is not about giving in to difficulties, but about liberating our energies to confront them in whatever way is appropriate. To face the world we need to face ourselves, as we are rather than as we would like to be. Neither is this to say that we should switch off our intelligence. We have to acknowledge sometimes that our emotional reaction is over the top, irrational, that we are responding to old memories and not to present facts. But this acknowledgement provides the context in which we can effectively let go to the feelings and thus let go of them - knowing them for what they are.
Emotions always have a rational basis.
At other times, though, the appropriate form of discharge is in real life action, by getting angry with whoever is oppressing us and making them stop. We can use our heads, and other people's, to work out which sort of situation is which, to disentangle the mixture of past and present which is usually involved. The key point is that emotions are e-motions, movements out , their natural function is precisely to clear what stops us moving on. Feelings are value-neutral, neither good nor bad, simply there . Resistance' is a word for all the ways in which people seek to avoid their own movement, their own living process.