We get busy. We try to take our mind off our problems. We fight ourselves so that we don't have to experience these feelings. We shove them deep into our being, pushing them deeper and deeper into ourselves, until after a while we can no longer see them. When we suppress vs. experiencing and releasing our emotions, we go into resistance.
Resistance puts unnecessary stress and strain on the body.
It takes enormous amounts of physical energy to maintain the damn that we have created in order to hold back our emotions. Then we don't have to look at them, feel them or experience them. We add bricks to an energtic wall that surrounds us until we have no feelings, good or bad, negative or positive at all. When our emotions are balanced, we can experience all of them to their fullest. It is easier for us to own them and then process them quickly and effortlessly.