It's more "redirecting" your emotions by thinking of something more pleasant. TEA...
It's not that at all. It's thinking thru why you feel a certain way, understanding it then challenging that thinking to find a better outcome. Once you think of possiblities your mind get's off the hopeless loop.
Read up on Aaron Beck, Albert Ellis and Martin Seligman.
M22,H45,W45 S21/18D12 Retain faith that you will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties and at the same time confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.