Where would you be without your emotions? If the sum total of all your experiences makes up the tapestry of your life, it is the emotions you have experienced that give that tapestry its color.
Try to imagine for a moment a world where no emotions could occur. No joy would be possible. No feelings of happiness, bliss, charity, or kindness. No love would be felt, no positive emotions of any kind.
On this imaginary emotionless planet, there would be no negative emotions either. No sorrow, no anger, no feelings of depression, and no grief. To live on such a planet would be to merely exist. With no ability to feel emotions, life would be reduced to a gray, mechanical ritual from cradle to grave. Be grateful that you can feel emotions!
But are there emotions you have experienced that you would rather not have felt? If you are like most people, your life has had its darker times. You have probably experienced moments of anxiety, as well as times of grief, anger, frustration, and fear. You may have experienced periods of sorrow, as well as depression, low self-esteem, hopelessness, or any of a wide variety of negative emotions.
What you may not realize is that some of the negative emotions you’ve experienced, even though you may have felt them long ago, may be creating problems for you now. Yes, some of your old experiences are still affecting you in subtle yet very damaging ways. The Emotion Code is about finding those old emotions and releasing them forever.
Much of our suffering is due to negative emotional energies that have become “trapped” within us. The Emotion Code is a simple and powerful method of finding and releasing these trapped energies.
Many people have found that when they free themselves of their trapped emotions, they are able to live healthier and happier lives. A single trapped emotion can create both physical and emotional problems.
The following real-life examples illustrate how releasing trapped emotional energy using the Emotion Code can result in astonishing and sudden improvements in physical and emotional wellness:
What Are Emotions?
As you live through the days and years of your life, you are continually experiencing emotions of one sort or another. These feelings you have all serve a purpose — they provide motivation, direction, and communication from your body, your higher self, and the divine. Negative emotions also can be useful, even if they are at times uncomfortable or painful. All of us experience negative emotional extremes at times, it seems to be part of what it means to be human.
Our emotions don’t come out of nowhere — they are generated by our bodies based on two criteria: what we are experiencing in the moment, and information stored in our bodies and minds from past experiences. So whether we are feeling happiness or shame, that emotion comes from deep within, and for a reason.
What are emotions made of? We will discuss this in more depth later in the book, but simply put, emotions are vibrations of pure energy. Every emotion has its own unique vibrational frequency. Everything in the universe is made of energy, and emotions are no exception. Quantum physics has proven that energies affect other energies. So it follows that we are affected by the energy of our emotions simply because our bodies are also made of energy. This simple fact is the reason our emotions can affect us so profoundly on a mental, emotional, and physical level.
The Emotional Experience in a Nutshell
Three things happen when we experience an emotion. First, our body generates the emotional vibration. Second, we begin to feel the emotion and any thoughts or physical sensations that come along with it. Third, we choose to let the emotion go and we move on, after a few seconds to several minutes. This last step is called processing, and once it is completed, we have successfully moved on from the emotional experience and it shouldn’t cause us any problems.
However, if either the second or third step is interrupted, the emotional experience is incomplete, and the energy of the emotion is likely to become trapped in the body.
We do not yet completely understand all the reasons emotions are not processed completely. It appears that the more overwhelming or extreme an emotion is, the more likely it will become trapped. There could be other reasons, such as weakness in the body or many old trapped emotions of a similar vibration, but we will discuss those in more depth later on.
What Is a Trapped Emotion?
As much as we would like to forget some of the emotionally difficult times we’ve been through, the influence of these events may stay with us in the form of trapped emotions. Sometimes we can consciously recall these challenging events, and sometimes we cannot. Whether you remember a painful event or not doesn’t actually matter, because your subconscious mind does remember, and we can access that information by using the Emotion Code. Many people who have been through extreme trauma have blocked out years of their lives and remember almost nothing, but the Emotion Code allows us to bypass the conscious mind completely. Instead, we access vital information about trapped emotions from the subconscious mind.
Each time you trap an emotion, you get stuck in the middle of whatever traumatic event you were experiencing. So instead of moving beyond your angry moment, or a temporary bout with grief or depression, you retain this negative emotional energy within your body, potentially causing significant physical and emotional stress. Most people are amazed to find that their emotional baggage is more literal than they had imagined. Trapped emotions actually consist of well-defined energies that have a shape and form. Although they are not visible, they are very real.
Your Future Held Hostage
Do you ever feel that you are struggling under the weight of something that you can’t quite put your finger on? Perhaps your life is not turning out how you had hoped. Perhaps your attempts to form lasting relationships never seem to work out. You may wish that certain events in your past had never occurred but feel powerless to move beyond them. You may even have an uneasy feeling that your present is being held hostage by your past in some vague and indefinable way.
When you are free of your trapped emotions, you will likely find yourself feeling more secure and motivated, and liberated to create the relationships, career, and life you always wanted.
People frequently sense that they are somehow burdened by their past emotions, but they don’t seem to know how to get over them. The traditional approach in Western society is generally to talk about the past and discuss coping mechanisms with a therapist. While this is often helpful and can save lives, it does not address the trapped emotions directly, which means that the true root of the problem remains.
Trapped emotions often drive people to self-medicate in various ways. You may find yourself working long hours, using drugs or drinking, thrill seeking, or trying to solve everyone else’s problems.
Many people fail to perform up to their ability and have difficulty making their life work as they should. Oftentimes, the underlying cause of their frustration is a trapped emotion from a past event that they may not realize is sabotaging their efforts.
Let my ‘Certified Experience’ help you get there! Find me here in Santa Clara, CA, USA at.. https://discoverhealing.com/practitioner-map/
*Credits – The Emotion Code: Dr. Bradley Nelson