Emotions have a very strong overriding effect on other mental activities. Out of the outcomes from an impulse - actions, thoughts, emotions - it is emotions that majorly pre-occupies the human mind, because it requires the least of energy to be applied. Emotions are our second nature. We can readily have them. Actions require physical energy to be applied and thoughts require mental energy to be applied. Emotions require almost nothing. :-) So, they easily to take over our minds.
I am not sure whether emotions and consciousness can co-exist with each other. May be they can. But I suspect that it is emotions that make us lose our consciousness. Thoughts and actions do not affect our consciousness, instead they try to keep/focus our consciousness further. Why do we lose consciousness when we feel? I have no answer.
So, I see emotional intelligence is a very very important part of our lives. We have to have it to achieve anything concrete.
