I emphasize the motivations and the emotions of my students.
I could echo this, if by 'emphasise' we mean 'I consider this the important thing to be aware of'. Otherwise, emphasising something in words to the students usually has a negative effect: so that, e.g. rather than saying 'this is an important for you to learn', I would prefer to simply show its importance in my own way of being, as something self-evident - just like being with a child...
And my goal is to help my students get the habit of thinking in foreign languages in a shortest possible time.
This is indeed the essence of the suggestopedic approach, for me... I think I've written on one of the web-sites, that my aim is to create - and later to stimulate the learners to create - experiences in the target language which the learner will want to remember: when they remember the experience they will (normally) remember the sounds, the colours, the softness or hardness of chair, floor, clothes, the muscle-memories from the actions, the human dynamic which were all part of it - and then you get the language along with the rest, without any effort...
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