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How can excessive sentimentality be overcome?

Redirect your excessive sentimentality into acts of care, creativity, and presence; when emotions are guided consciously, they transform into love and joy rather than decay into drama and pain.

— Osho
According to Osho, excessive sentimentality isn’t to be suppressed but rerouted. Every energy has a right use; when guided consciously, feeling matures into love, prayer, joy—just as anger refined becomes forgiveness. Ask not 'How to drop it?' but 'Where to direct it?' Bring emotion into caring acts, creativity, devotion, presence. Used rightly, intensity becomes virtue; misused, it decays into drama and pain.

Don’t try to throw away big feelings; guide them into love, helpful actions, and prayer so they turn from drama into warmth and goodness.