When we experience unpleasant feelings those signals are telling us that something is affecting our well-being. They're unpleasant to make them difficult to ignore and their level of unpleasantness represent the seriousness in which we should investigate the cause.
Though it's natural for us to not to want to experience unpleasant feeling, the solutions isn't to avoid, suppress or ignore them but to understand the reasons behind what's causing them.
They're the symptoms of the problem and not the problem themselves.
For example, when we accidentally cut ourselves, the pain is there to tell us that we've been hurt. If we ignore the pain but our body isn't able to natural heal the cut on its own, the pain will persist. If we continue to ignore it and it gets infected, then, besides the pain from the cut, the area around the wound will also becomes painful to the touch.
As our physical well-being becomes worse, the amount of unpleasant feelings we experience also increase. These unpleasant feelings are signals telling us to “take care” and without them we wouldn't know or wouldn't care if we've been hurt.
Unpleasant feelings are important and serve a necessary function. Without them we wouldn't know when we're physically or emotionally unwell.
Though we might not like how they feel, they shouldn't be avoided, suppressed or ignored but paid attention to and, if necessary, resolved.
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