How Clearing Trapped Emotions Can Set Us Free
Writer: Rachel Hope
Illustration: Russ Willms
How many times have you heard the comment: “He/she has a lot of emotional baggage”? The reality is that pretty much all of us are carrying around old, unexpressed emotions, even if we don't realize it. Painful emotional energy that has become trapped in the body wreaks havoc on our well-being. It can block our heart's ability to give and receive love, and it can leave us feeling anxious or depressed. Emotional pain that is lodged in the body can even cause physical pain and illness affecting things like our sleep and digestion.
Fortunately there is a very gentle and efficient way of helping the body to clear out trapped emotions. This helps us to feel more joy and more connected to our loved ones. Releasing trapped emotions can also help us to heal the issues with our body that are getting in the way of truly thriving and going after life. Another important benefit is that we can release the filter of past pain that clouds every present moment by clearing out emotions one by one, so we can respond to life versus reacting to life.
Years ago, I kept getting an intuitive feeling that I had a lot of painful emotions in my body from childhood that I needed to release in order to feel more at ease in my body emotionally and physically. At the time I was dealing with a lot of sadness and intense sharp pain in my body.
I started working with the child part of me inside who was holding onto that pain because it was never safe to feel the anger and betrayal as a kid. I was able to help my inner child in so many ways. I boosted her self-esteem. I helped her to learn about boundaries and self-love; however, it was not so easy for me to access all of the deeply buried pain.
Mentors kept telling me to sit and feel so I could release these emotions, but I felt with meditation I could only go so deep. Like so many of us, I had used a common childhood survival technique of suppressing emotions, so they were not so easily accessible. I knew there was much more to release.
I set an intention to find a way to clear out trapped emotional energy in my body. I was watching a powerful documentary called E*Motion on Gaia TV when I found it. Many brilliant creators of various emotional healing modalities were interviewed but there was one who stood out to me—When I heard Dr. Bradley Nelson, (the creator of The Emotion Code and The Body Code) my body was covered in goosebumps. I knew I had found what I was looking for.
After six Body Code sessions with a practitioner I felt calmer, less anxious and sad, the chronic tight feeling in my left hip was completely gone and my PMS pain was significantly better.
The Emotion Code easily clears trapped emotions. The Body Code clears the same trapped emotions plus so many other types of imbalances such as inflammation, toxins, negative energy from other people, limiting subconscious beliefs, and even nutritional or sleep issues.
What is really amazing is that, since we’re all connected through a Universal energy field, this healing can happen at a distance over the phone.
And through intention and concentration we can work with this field to clear one imbalance at a time bringing us closer and closer to our healing goals.
All of us have a potent healing resource, our subconscious mind. Think of the subconscious as a super computer that knows everything that is going on with us and what we need in order to heal. When I am working with a client, I have the intention of connecting to their subconscious. As soon as I do this I start to yawn and shiver. I then ask my client's subconscious what can be released to help with whatever issue we are working on.
Through muscle testing and charts, my client's subconscious will take me to the imbalance that is ready to be released: grief, shame, or some inflammation energy. Even though, most of my clients have never seen the Emotion Code and Body Code charts, the information in these charts is in the Universal Energy field we are all a part of. Our subconscious mind accesses information from this field such as what is in the charts.
It all sounds so Sci-Fi, but I can't deny the results. I studied many modalities for years, but none of them brought the clear results I wanted to see. Often clients feel immediate pain relief during a session and just about everyone feels lighter after. This process continues to amaze me as I work with it. We all have the power to heal within us!