Over the years, at least in the lucid dream circles, I've seen people mentioning the whole dark side of their mind that hinders them. The people keeping good lucid dream logs that had the problem all get rid of it the same way. If it's a part of you, embrace it. Some people did it by yelling things like, "I accept me for me!" or "I love us!", others did "physical" gestures such as hugging or introducing themselves, ect.
For me it came out as a destructive force, it would whip out, change the mood of the dream, add impending doom, even "kill" denizens (both self created and regular entities, in both Astral Projections and Lucid dreams). The feeling was just a reflection of my inner feelings of fear of the unknown, and the lashings out on entities was because of a security based fear. All this stuff is done now, and controllable.
I would say you pretty much hit it spot on. I've been learning to deal with them on my own just having a bit of issues controlling the amount of negative energy I produce. Since i got rid of the symboit (if any of you still know what that is.) It's been a bit of trouble controlling it on my own but thanks Mech.