During the Blitz, while others were exercised by more rational emotions of fear or anger, Betjeman confides of his ministry colleague: "I used to wish desperately for a small wound from a bomb so that she would minister to me".
And Balázs explicitly praised silence as necessary for the highest achievement: The gestures of visual man [i.e., the film actor] are not intended to convey concepts which can be expressed in words, but such inner experiences, such non-rational emotions which would still remain unexpressed when everything that can be told has been told.
Rational emotive therapy aims at altering inaccurate or irrational thoughts that lead to negative emotions or maladaptive behaviour.
Then again, believing that no sane county would willingly perch itself on the edge of an economic abyss is a rational, sensible emotion.
Today it is known that the emotional brain is essential for the correct functioning of the rational brain: "Emotions are the foundation of everything we do, even reasoning" (Maturana & Bloch, 1998: 137).
There are eight basic, practical problems that get in the way of calm, rational investing: Emotion-based decision making: Have you have ever sold a stock because it had gone up and you didn't want to "lose your profit"–only to watch it double or triple in price in the years after you sold?
However, to our understanding this is the first study in which parents actually described this discrepancy between rational and emotions themselves.
Non-rational transcendent emotions are harmonious with reason, evidence, and naturalism.
People with this style (not narcissism, although that would be a good guess) prefer to see themselves as logical and rational, uninfluenced by emotion, and to think in abstract and intellectualized ways, as if emotions were irrelevant or inconsequential to decision making — when in fact they are essential to it.
It can be agonizing to separate rational thought from emotion.
