“Being” with the flow of thoughts and feelings, and not trying to cut them off through redirection of attention, can generate good things and bad things. Sometimes it helps to “be” with thoughts and feelings, to let them carry one along for awhile, for them to work themselves out, or for us to become desensitized to them, or for us to learn or change through them. But cutting them off is also fine, depending. Sometimes we want to focus on the task at hand. Sometimes we’ve heard the same old song many times before and find little value in listening once again.