By: Dr. Bradley Nelson
Sandy had chronic knee pain. Whether she was walking, sitting or resting in bed, her knee continually hurt. Three different specialists had treated her knee, but nothing helped.
It turned out, the pain was caused by emotions buried deep within her body. Sandy’s muscles, joints and cartilage were fine. But when her trapped emotions blocked the flow of energy in her leg, it made her knee hurt.
Where Does Emotional Baggage Come From?
Have you ever had your heart broken? Have you loved someone, only to realize he just wasn’t that into you? Has anyone ever said something that hurt your feelings? Have you ever felt anxiety, pain or stress?
Life is filled with joyful moments, but it also comes with plenty of opportunities to feel pain. After those experiences, it’s common for us to put up barriers. We even joke about it and call it “emotional baggage.” But it’s no joke.
Hanging onto emotions blocks your energy, holding it back like a dam, cutting off your organs from the healthy flow of vital energy they need. Emotions that stay trapped in your body can make you sick and cause you tremendous physical pain.
The Energy of Emotions
Everything that exists in our universe is made up of energy. We are like fish, swimming in an invisible sea of energy. The wi-fi signal you pick up with your smart phone, laptop, iPad, Kindle, and other devices is an energy stream in the form of radio waves. Your heart and brain emit waves that can be monitored.
When you feel emotion, it is not just a feeling inside you. You actually emanate the energy of that emotion. You may not be able to see it, but it has a direct impact on your health. It can not only cause emotional pain, but physical pain.
Energy healing is one of the oldest practices in the world. Since 4000 B.C. healers have understood that our health depends on the quality of the energy that flows through our bodies. Chinese medicine calls it “qi.” Ayurvedic medicine calls it “prana.”
When that energy is blocked by trapped emotions, pain sets in. Only by releasing trapped emotions can you relieve the pain and start to heal.
Shifting Your Energy
How can you heal your body’s energy field if you cannot see it? You must use some other form of energy.
The easiest, cheapest, most widely available energy tool is the everyday refrigerator magnet. Don’t be fooled just because it’s shaped like a brightly colored piece of fruit or cartoon character. The magnet beneath is the real thing, and it’s just what you need.
Is it really so surprising? After all, we are magnetic beings. We cannot see them, but we all emit magnetic fields. The planet we live on produces an enormous magnetic field from the earth’s inner core. Shifting your body’s magnetic energy, ever so slightly, can give you the relief from pain you’ve been waiting for.
How to Release Your Trapped Emotions
1. Establish a baseline.
First, find a baseline for true/false reactions. (Polygraph operators do this all the time.) Stand relaxed and perfectly still, with your feet shoulder width apart. Make a positive statement. (“Yes!”) Focus on that thought, and notice how your body sways slightly forward. Then try a false statement. (“No!”) Your body will sway slightly back. Your subconscious mind giving you these responses is what we call a baseline, and it teaches you what sort of focus you need to get answers.
2. Ask if a trapped emotion exists.
Most of us have trapped emotions. Ask yourself a question using the sway test. If the answer is no, it means this is not the time to release the emotion. Wait until you’re ready.
3. Identify the emotion.
On my website, you will find a chart of emotions. This chart can be used to identify each trapped emotion. Simply go through the chart by asking questions in the following order, using the sway test:
- “Is the trapped emotion in column A?” (if no, it is in column B)
- “Is the trapped emotion in an odd row in this column?” (if not, is in an even column)
- “Is the trapped emotion in this row?” (name the remaining rows one at a time)
- “Is the trapped emotion … Blame?” (name the emotions in that column and row)
4. Release the emotion.
Place the magnet on your forehead between your eyebrows. Relax and breath deeply. Slide the magnet up over the top of your head and down the back of your neck. Repeat three times, focusing your loving intention on releasing the trapped emotion.
5. Confirmation.
When you finish, use the sway test to answer the question: “Has the trapped emotion been released?” If the answer is yes, it is gone permanently. If the answer is no, repeat the process with the magnet three more times.
Remember, the magnet will actually magnify the effect of your thoughts and emotions. To amplify the results, hold a feeling of love in your heart as you release the trapped emotion. Let yourself feel a real sense of gratitude in knowing that it will be gone forever.
The Results Will Amaze You
My patient Linda felt her feelings of suicidal depression disappear as she released her trapped emotions. Connie’s allergies disappeared. After letting go of the old emotional wounds she had held onto for years, Yolaunda finally lost the weight she wanted to lose.
All of them are now free from the damaging effects of trapped emotions. You can be too.
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As a certified EC practitioner, I find your approach of having the person go down the chart of emotions concernable. I have had cases where the person I was working with had the chart and would look at the emotion coming up and deciding before the subconscious gave the answer that the emotion they saw could not be “the one”. This could cause confusion and give incorrect answers. This approach also takes longer than the standard EC approach of using column A/B, even/odd rows, etc. The question thus becomes “Why the shift?”.
Ron Oplinus
I’m in a Catch-22. So far I keep blocking consistant testing or blank my mind out from working with The Emotion
Code. I will have to find a way to override that problem because I can’t afford a fee for professional help. I know I have many issues to resolve. Persistence and the desire to help others will be my key focus. Thank you for what you are doing to help people free themselves from the destruction of their trapped emotions.
Hi Dr. Bradley. You must know how timely this email is for me today. On yesterday I had a representative of a major University to tell me that they were not going to use me as the designer for their commencement stage project. After I had been working for over 6 weeks on the project. I was devastated. After hanging up the phone became very emotional. Feeling rejected, not good enough,hurt, angry and a flood of other feelings that I had experienced nearly 30 years ago; when right out of college a major Space Center company “down graded” me/my salary after my 1st review. When they determined that I was not as experienced as they thought I was or should have been for the job. All that said, I am going into my bedroom right now to try you 5 step release. I so desire freedom from this and all emotional bondages in my life. I will give you an update. Thank you for your gift of hope….Shalom. WAT- Katy, TX.
I have just finished the steps…I feel much lighter, clear-headed and I feel refreshed. I am grateful for this timely tool. I signed up for your free video course. I look fowatd to more healing and release. May you be blessed as you continue to bless others. Shalom, Wanda T.
My grandmother is 93 years old. She has arthritis in her spine, I think it is degenerative, and I believe it is in her lower back and irritable bowel syndrome. When the two flare up at the same time, she is in alot of pain. Can Emotional Code be used for this?
what kind of magnet are you referring to and where can i purchase one?? if you would be so kind as to email me this info, it would be much appreciated. thank you for posting such informative, educational articles.
I have just done this exercise this morning that Dr Bradley Nelson takes you through with Trapped Emotions and it is amazing doing the sway test and it worked for me! I cleared 3 trapped emotions but feel that there may be something more to do later on, but the pain in my shoulders and neck has significantly decreased today! I will do this again at a later time to see if I can clear more as I just know there is more! Many, many thanks Dr Nelson!
Very good! I totally agree with what you say here. I have experienced this over and over. I had a chronic neck pain which had lasted 10 years disappear overnight once the emotions around an old car accident had been released. In that accident I had almost been scalped due to a laceration when the back of my head collided with the back window. I was young (no seat belts then) and it was very traumatic. The 50 stitches used to sew my scalp back together didn’t piece together the energetic parts of me that had severed as a result of the fear and confusion of the accident.
Releasing the emotion many years later is what healed that wound. I know what you are saying, Dr. Nelson is very, very true and I am so grateful that we have Emotion Code to help us. The above method is something everyone can do, so yippee for that. I believe the time is now for everyone who is willing to move beyond the things (trapped emotions) that keep us from realizing our true nature and inhibit us from expressing our own individual creative sparks of the divine. Sharing that which we have come here to share.
Clearly Dr. Nelson, you are sharing your spark of the divine in creating this body of work and making it available to all of us. Thank you!
I sometimes release the same trapped emotion from the same person within two days of each other. What am I doing wrong?
Hi Margaret,
We can feel the same emotion many times in our lives. When an emotion is felt intensely, it can become trapped within. Once it is released, it is released. It is not the same energy. It is a different occurance.
Sometimes we need to know the age or the location on the body where it is lodged in order to release it. Other times we do not. We let the body direct us and release!
Magnets are helpful as they magnify the thought and intention of the release, although they are not necessary. You can even use your fingertips as they have a magnetic polarity all their own!
If you would like to use a magnet, any magnet will do.
If you would like to purchase a nikken magent, please contact nikken.com.
We have seen all kinds of problems helped with the Emotion Code and the Body Code. Remember that the underlying cause of all disease is imbalance; the most common underlying imbalance that drives all symptoms is trapped emotions. The Body Code allows us to fill in the blanks by giving us a very simple way to ask the subconscious mind what other underlying imbalances there may be, whether they are from pathogens, nutritional deficiencies, toxicity, structural imbalances, circuitry imbalances (such as chakras or acupuncture meridians), emotional energies and so on.
We always like to emphasize that the Emotion Code and the Body Code are never to be used to treat disease; instead, they are used to remove the underlying causes of disease, allowing the body to heal itself. This may seem like a fine distinction, but it is important to point out. We allow the medical community to treat diseases. We just remove imbalances.
Having said all this, I guess the bottom line is there is no way to tell without trying. You might want to consider scheduling a distance examination at http://www.HealersLibrary.com/services to see what we can come up with…!
Hi Doreen,
Sometimes it can be challenging to receive accurate answers for ourselves.
Be sure to offer a prayer before beginning a Session.
There are also three items that need to be in place in order to receive accurate readings from your body/subconscious:
1. Hydration. 2. Neck aligned. 3. Trapped Emotion can prevent receiving an accurate reading.
When it works for you, you might consider a Session with one of Staff Practitioners to see if we can locate and clear any of the imbalances listed above for you that are preventing you from moving forward.
Appointments: http://www.healerslibrary.com/services.
Hi Ron,
The subconcious wants to please you.
The conscious can overpower the subconscious with what it thinks the answer should be rather than let the subconscious priorize the correct answer to release.
We do not recommend the client look at the chart while having a session. That way the subconscious is allowed to be in charge and not the conscious!
I just been around in circles now and for too many years..i do not feel physical pain except for damage caused by 4 dentists and cellulite..but i feel enormous emotional pain and for some reason which i find very odd at my age to meet people abusing of me verbally..even though i do not accept their remarks it still hurts me to have that around me. No matter what healing practitioner does me free or paid ..i always feel emotional pain again later..so not sure where to look for …but it feels like a never ending ripple of emotions ..can you guide please..i am tired mentally of this and has cause major obstacles in love, prosperity and joy….
How do I ask the questions with the chart!! Do I look at the chart each time as Im holding it in my hand standing??/
Hi! I recently had four sessions (a week apart) with a certified emotion/body code practitioner. We worked on several issues, including allergies. The week after the four session my allergies got very bad and I also got a bad case of the flu. Is there a reason why symptoms would increase rather than decrease?
Thanks.
Hi Kat,
The body can be compared to an onion where there are many layers to peel back before completely clearing.
Sometimes things can get worse before getting better.
This is an indication there is more release!
The body is manifesting ways to get rid of the energy
Hi Stephen,
This is challenging to describe in an email without being long and drawn out.
The best way to learn long distance is to watch Dr. Nelson’s teaching seminar DVD’s with a student membership of $25 per month at http://www.healerslibrary.com.
This can be cancelled at anytime with an email to membership@healerslibrary.com.
Hi Joanna,
We’re sending here your discouragement!
The body can be compared to an onion where there are many layers to peel back before completely clearing.
Sometimes things can get worse before getting better.
This is an indication there is more release.
It sounds like a Heartwall clearing would be beneficial for you!
There maybe other things blocking your progress which would be found in the Body Code as well.
You might consider setting up an appointment with one of Dr. Nelson’s staff at http://www.healersLibrary.com/services
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To Dr.Bradley`s Assistant,
There is tension in my neck.The thing is my elderly mother died at 88,January 24,2013.Also my younger brother John died September 11 at the World Trade Center and my stepfather died November 1996 of a heartattack at Long Island College Hospital.Both my parents were cremated.And their remains
are in a box in my late mothers room.I repress a lot of my anger.Can you hgelp me?My day phone is :212-863-0818,
EST. RSVP.
Signed,
Keith P.Cooper
Hi Keith,
We’re so sorry to hear of these great losses for you!
Yes, trapped emotions lodge into areas where they perceive a weakness may reside and thus recreate pain and discomfort.
We would be happy to assist you!
Please go to our online calendaring system and select a day/time/staff practitioner you would like to work with and let’s move this energy out and get you moving forward!
http://www.healerslibrary.com/services
Ron and Stephen:
To do this process on myself (and even when working with my clients) I do not look at the chart while determining the emotion. With eyes closed or with the chart turned over, determine the column, then the row, then ask “is it the first emotion in that row?” If no then ask if it’s the second, etc. until you determine which item it is, THEN turn the chart over or open your eyes and see what the emotion is. You can then verify by asking “Is this trapped emotion blame?” or whichever one was chosen. This way the conscious mind cannot veto the emotion before you have a chance to ask the subconscious.
Now mind you eventually you will memorize where some of the emotions are located on the chart but it takes quite a lot of practice to do that.
I hope this idea helps!
Hi!
I am experiencing deeper emotions immediately! I said something for the first time out loud after bumping into something in my kitchen : I have pain! Hearing myself say these words out loud, genuinely, without hesitation and pre-thinking it out was phenomenal.
I had heard about a modality in Toronto used to cure people with mental health problems, and, it actually used some kind of magnetic process as well, but through a large machine. I much prefer this, self-administered, gentle approach. Where did this modality come from? Thanks for the info, I also signed up for the newsletters.
Sincerely,
Nikki
Hi Nikki,
You can read all about this in Dr. Nelson’s book, The Emotion Code!
Thanks for checking in w/ us!
Hello Dr. Nelson. I recently read your book ‘Emotion Code’ and feel so blessed to know the facts you have brought to the world. I tried to release few emotions as per the methods taught in the book and feel very relived and joyous. I shared the knowledge with my family and friends too. I would like to know if there are any cautions to be taken before healing oneself except for the ones you have mentioned in the book. Is it okay to question your subconscious more than one time if you don’t get accurate answer? I personally find sway test more reliable. Thank you, God bless you!
I was doing some emotion-release as a proxy for a gentleman who is suffering from Sciatic pain in his right leg. Many of the emotions, however, were trapped in his LEFT leg; and in the tissue! Is it common for emotions to be trapped in the opposite limb of the limb that is actually feeling the pain?