Controlling your emotions doesn't seem to be the right word for it

As when you feel whatever emotion you come to feel, it is typically too late to control it. If you in fact want to say that you can somehow override your emotions (i.e. consciously and deliberately ignore what they compel you to do), that is another thing. But even if so, emotions are a direct driving force of our actions (that's basically the reason why people make the same mistakes over and over again). So how should we deal with our emotions in trading? This question definitely deserves a separate topic of its own (which I'm going to start in a couple of days)