What are feelings? What are these things going "HEY YOU, I AM A FEELING SO FEEL ME!"
Well, are they like little spiritual emotional blah blah blah? No.
They are chemical, and although feelings can be caused by certain emotional links to certain things it's not the thing or even the trigger making you feel, it's the chemical.
What does your body do to fight stress? It metabolizes the stress hormone and flushes it away; that is how your stress goes away instead of just stacking... emotional baggage is a combination of obsolete emotional triggers and stress that was never metabolized, causing negative effects both brain-chemically and physically.
How do you stabilize or increase the amount of stress your body can metabolize?
Go for a run.
It is that simple, your body will adapt to the incoming physical stress and raise your ability to metabolize it safely, if you have WAY too much stress then its possible you should try and fall back onto a low stress lifestyle while you build yourself up to the challenges of regular stress, either that or try and dissolve your emotional triggers with things you generally can't control anyway like the US economy.
Hell, just move out of the US if it's that bad.
A little something extra to dissolve emotional triggers:
http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/co.../taote-v3.html
Getting Fit:
http://www.exrx.net/