By becoming aware of the emotions that you are suppressing, not the "feeling emotions" rationally because the reason of emotion is rational.
Suppressing emotions has nothing to do with rationality as understood by this community. We aren't straw vulcans. Giving a speech of why straw vulcanism is bad, is no speech that provides a good critique of what we consider rationalism to be.
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