Emotions are cognition. I think in the blooming of rationality as a mode of engaging the world we forgot to keep that in mind. It is easy to focus on the mode of cognition most amenable to rational methods, the verbal. Just because emotions are not words does not mean they do not follow their own logic. Engaging your emotions &#x27;rationally&#x27; is extremely important! There is a reason why we fall in love with people who speak to us in a way that seems to transcend mere words.<p>Emotions change as they are &#x27;processed&#x27; and as new observations are made. That sounds like a &#x27;logical&#x27; process to me. It&#x27;s just hard to turn such processes into processes involving words (at least for me!).<p>Geometric, visual thinking is often as invaluable as logical, verbal thinking in mathematics. I believe that emotional thinking (some uses of the word &#x27;thought&#x27; render that phrase paradoxical) is valuable in many human undertakings, too. I admire those who can swiftly translate emotions into words and back again. It is a form of power just barely beyond my grasp.