An emotional and ideational state is like a problem to be resolved - as distinct from solved - that is, to go quietly against the grain of the mood in order to see that it arises from the same background consciousness as ay other state. The hint you are given is the enhanced salience of the object-like sense of self, which although turbulent has an unusual constancy. You go under the turbulence to whatever it is that maintains this appearance of constancy. To do so however you need to draw some force from the mood's own urgency, to bend it towards a working. This has a slightly violent quality since it is carried out blindly and is therefore somewhat frightening. The fear is a mark of hitting something relatively in your inner world - there is no movement without a corresponding fear.