What is the main message of The Emotion Code?

The main message of The Emotion Code is that our emotional baggage can affect our physical and mental well-being.

Who is the author of The Emotion Code?

The author of The Emotion Code is Bradley Nelson.

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Name: The Emotion Code
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Author: Bradley Nelson

Bradley Nelson

How to Release Your Trapped Emotions for Abundant Health, Love, and Happiness

3.9 (271 ratings)

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The Emotion Code by Bradley Nelson is a guide to releasing trapped emotions that cause physical and emotional pain. It reveals how to identify and remove emotional baggage, leading to greater health, wealth and happiness.

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Spirituality The Body Trauma & Healing Emotional Intelligence

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What’s in it for me? Learn a new and powerful method for clearing emotional baggage.

Today, perhaps more than ever before, people are beginning to understand just how much our emotions impact our experience, thoughts, and reactions. Many of us even recognize that emotional patterns can have a direct impact on our physical health and well-being.

With this realization, there’s been an explosion of interest in therapy and self-help books, some of which can make a big difference. The problem is that a lot of the methods out there don’t deal with the problem at its root.

That’s why the Emotion Code is such a powerful tool. By learning how to locate and release trapped emotions, we can entirely reconfigure how emotions flow through or get stuck within us and also replace negative emotions with positive ones. The Emotion Code is the ultimate life hack in healing; a simple and profoundly effective method, it allows us to release old emotional baggage and clear the path for a healthier and more positive future.

In these blinks, you’ll learn

what trapped emotions are;
how to locate and release negative energy; and
why learning to listen to your subconscious is the key to well-being.

We don’t just feel emotions, they can actually get trapped within us.

A common way to think about emotions is that they’re momentary reactions. For instance, if someone cuts you off in traffic, you feel anger. If your child scores the winning basket, you feel proud.

However, emotions can also get trapped inside of us and continue to impact our thoughts, feelings, and health without our awareness.

To understand emotions at a deeper level, let’s break down exactly what happens when we experience an emotion. First off, our body creates an emotional vibration – for example, the vibration of happiness, sadness, anxiety, or excitement. Then we begin to feel the emotion, as well as the thoughts and physical sensations that accompany it.

This process can last for a single second or a much longer period of time. Eventually, in a healthy emotional life cycle, we choose to let the emotion go and move on.

Trapped emotions happen when this process gets interrupted or isn’t allowed to evolve fully through the three steps. Sometimes the problem is that we haven’t truly let go of the emotion. Other times, it’s that we didn’t allow ourselves to actually experience the emotion in the first place, but instead bottled it up, storing it away in our body.

Unfortunately, while the average person has over a hundred trapped emotions, we often aren’t aware of them. And if you’ve ever experienced relationship problems, rejection, negative self-talk, loss, or long-term stress, you most likely have trapped emotions.

To illustrate how trapped emotions can impact us without our realizing it, let’s take the story of Julia, a former client of the author’s. Julia was a hard-working, enthusiastic student. In class, she did fine, but whenever she took her qualifying exam, she failed. She’d taken the test three times, and was afraid that if she failed again she might not be able to proceed further in her career path.

Julia had no prior experience working with trapped emotions, but she was so desperate to get around her testing problems that she was willing to give anything a shot. Through a single session, Julia was able to discover that she had a trapped emotion around discouragement from the age of fifteen, when her parents got divorced.

Under pressure, this trapped emotion took over and sabotaged her. After releasing the trapped emotion, she aced the next test!

Everything is energy.

Recent research is proving what healers have known for thousands of years: even though our bodies seem very solid, we’re actually built out of energy. The Emotion Code, a therapeutic technique developed by the author, is based on the ancient wisdom that achieving a healthy mind and body requires healthy energy.

Over the last one hundred years, quantum physics has shown that, at a subatomic level, atoms are actually 99.99% empty space. Think about that for a minute: 99.99% of everything that you see and feel, and which appears to be solid, is actually just vibrating energy! This isn’t just an unbelievable and interesting thought – it has a big impact on how we treat our bodies and minds, because energy is stored, released, and interconnected in complex ways.

Trapped emotions impact how we think, feel, and react, often without our knowing it.

One way to think about trapped emotions is as balls of energy lodged in our system. Like electricity, they’re colorless and odorless – but anyone who’s ever been shocked knows that just because electricity is invisible doesn’t mean it isn’t real! Similarly, trapped emotions are powerful, invisible forces, and they impact how we think, feel, and react.

Have you ever realized in retrospect that you overreacted to an innocent remark, were inexplicably afraid of something, or misinterpreted someone's behavior, leading to a lot of negative emotions?

Left long enough, trapped emotions can have a physical impact on us.

In the last blink, we learned about how Debbie’s heartache impacted her so profoundly that it ultimately caused a physical reaction mimicking a heart attack. In an ideal world, trapped emotions would be caught and released before ever getting to such an extreme place, but the reality is that they’re often neglected so long as to cause physical pain.

The reason trapped emotions cause physical pain is that these balls of energy are located in the body, where their energy influences the tissue around them.

Lucky for us, there’s a simple method to identify and release our trapped emotions.

So if our bodies and our emotions are made out of energy, and that energy can get stuck in us and have a negative impact on our well-being, what can we do about it? The answer lies with an incredibly simple process, called muscle testing.

Muscle testing was developed by Dr. George Goodheart in the 1960s, initially as a way to correct structural imbalance in the skeleton. However, it was quickly discovered that muscle testing could be used for far more than structural misalignment; it offered us the opportunity to get information directly from the subconscious mind.

Your body’s sway can unlock insight into your subconscious mind.

One of the best explanations for how muscle testing works is that our subconscious brains are used to processing and judging only what is directly in front of us at any given moment. Over the course of human evolution, moving towards what is good and true has protected us, while moving away from what is bad or false has also protected us.

By applying this instinct to something called a sway test, we can unlock subconscious truths.

One of the most powerful tools for releasing a trapped emotion is a simple refrigerator magnet.

If you thought that the complicated part of the Emotion Code must come with the release of emotions, you were wrong! In fact, releasing trapped emotions is just as easy as locating them.

Once you’ve located a trapped emotion and discovered when and where it was stored, the next step is to release it. Remember: trapped emotions are built of energy. To release a trapped emotion, an equal and opposite energy wave must collide with it so that it can be leveled out and washed away. A useful analogy for this is noise-canceling headphones, which sense the frequency of external sound waves and produce the opposite frequency so as to level the sound waves out.

Should problems arise while locating and releasing trapped emotions, some useful tips can help.

The Emotion Code is beautifully simple. However, it’s possible that you’ll run into some roadblocks along the way. Here are some things to look out for as you begin your practice.

First off, it’s important to remember that getting used to muscle testing will take some time. We tend to be very stuck in our conscious brains, which can sometimes interfere with our subconscious mind’s ability to lead. To counteract this, take a deep breath and try to clear your mind.

The Emotion Code allows us to reroute our current emotional experience.

Often when we’re caught up in a feeling, especially a negative one, we believe it’s occurring because of external forces. However, the truth is that no one can make us feel anything – we choose our feelings. That’s why the Emotion Code is so useful. Not only does it help us let go of old emotions, but it can also help us choose emotions in the present that better serve us.

Imagine you spent a week preparing ideas for an important meeting, and you were really proud of the work you did. When the meeting came around, your boss dismissed your ideas, which brought up a negative reaction in you.

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What is The Emotion Code about?

The Emotion Code (2007) offers a new and empowering approach to healing ourselves and others. Through scientific evidence, plenty of firsthand experience, and a great respect for the energetic and spiritual forces that transcend and unite us all, The Emotion Code lays out a revolutionary method for finding and releasing trapped emotions. By doing so, we give ourselves the opportunity to move beyond our limitations and flourish.

The Emotion Code Review

The Emotion Code (2007) by Bradley Nelson is an insightful exploration of how trapped emotions can impact our well-being and offers a practical approach to releasing them. Here's why this book is definitely worth reading:

Packed with eye-opening case studies, it demonstrates the profound effects of emotional baggage on our physical and emotional health.
The book provides a step-by-step method to identify and release trapped emotions, empowering readers to improve their overall well-being.
With its easy-to-understand explanations and actionable techniques, this book keeps readers engaged and curious throughout their healing journey.

Best quote from The Emotion Code

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.

—Bradley Nelson

Who should read The Emotion Code?

Therapists interested in learning a new modality
Anyone who feels stuck in emotional patterns
People who trust in the body’s innate wisdom for guiding the healing process

About the Author

Dr. Bradley Nelson is a renowned holistic practitioner and lecturer who has worked with thousands of clients. His methods are a unique blend of energy healing, applied kinesiology, and magnet therapy. Nelson is widely considered the foremost expert in the emerging fields of bioenergetic medicine and energy psychology.

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