What do you most associate with Valentine’s Day? If you are anything like my wife, it’s a heart. She loves hearts. In fact, she has a heart-shaped wedding ring!
Did you know that the NIV bible has 743 references to the heart? The truth is that a heart can conjure up many different thoughts and emotions. What image enters your mind when you think about heart disease? Have you ever heard someone say, “That guy sure has heart”? Have you ever prayed for God to “soften someone’s heart”? Have you ever been injured emotionally and felt that emotional heaviness in your chest like your heart was breaking?
The point is that the human heart is much more than a muscle to pump blood. In fact, there are many scientists who now believe that the heart is the center of your being. In fact, research at the HeartMath Institute now indicates the heart may be a “second brain,” a brain more powerful than the one on top of your shoulders. A brain that is fully activated when you are giving and receiving pure love and acts of pure, unselfish devotion. It is through our heart that we give and receive love.
But, just as our hearts are vulnerable to physiological injury, they are also vulnerable to emotional injury. Sometimes trapped emotions are created in the body, and sometimes these trapped emotions lodge in the heart area.
What Is a Trapped Emotion?
According to Dr. Brad Nelson, author of “The Emotion Code,” when certain emotions are too powerful for us to handle, a short-circuit is created, and a part of that emotion is “trapped” within the body. This trapped emotion is essentially a “ball of energy.” We already know that the body has a magnetic field, and what we know, too, is that emotions trapped in the heart (acting as a ball of energy) distorts that magnetic field. The picture at right depicts the body’s magnetic field.
This type of trapped energy is invisible, yet can damage the body over time. If you have ever taken a magnet and put it near a computer screen or a tv set, and seen how the screen distorts, then you have seen the same phenomenon as this. A trapped emotion will distort the body’s magnetic field in this same way. And of course, if you distort the body’s magnetic field, you distort the physical tissues of the body as well, since the body itself is made of energy.
We are all subjected to various emotions every day of our lives. We usually are able to process these emotions without too much trouble. We experience the emotion as it passes through us and we move on.
Dr. Nelson realized, however, that emotions are processed on two levels: physically and mentally. Sometimes certain emotions are so powerful that the physical body does not process them. These emotions become “trapped” in the body, and lead to all manner of physical illnesses.
Since all things are nothing but pure energy by their very nature, a trapped emotion is no different, and consists of pure energy. Well, sometimes your subconscious mind will take that extra energy that is now in the heart area, and it will literally make a “wall” with it: a heart wall. Why? To protect your heart from further injury. The problem is that these heart walls tend to create physical effects, including stiffness in your neck, upper back pain, shoulder pain, depression, etc.
The Emotion Code in Practice
Here is one example in our clinical practice: A 75-year-old woman suffering from left shoulder and upper back pain was receiving chiropractic care with minimal improvement after several weeks of care. Utilizing the procedures outlined in The Emotion Code, I was able to determine that she had a “heart wall” of the emotion “grief” and that the emotion had become trapped around her heart 5 years ago. I asked her if anything had happened around 5 years ago to cause her grief. She said, “that year my husband and my son both died.” It turns out that she had never fully grieved the loss of her family members and that grief had become trapped around her heart, eventually leading to the physical complaints of shoulder pain and upper back pain.
After using Emotion Code, her shoulder pain went away almost immediately. It’s interesting to note that she had never mentioned that loss to me before. It was only through using specific protocols that were we able to get to the root of her health challenge.
So, the heart is the core of your being, and if you are having a hard time staying in love, giving love, receiving love, or getting over depression, it is possible that you have a wall around your heart. If you are wondering whether or not you have trapped emotions or heart walls that are preventing you from healing physically or emotionally, give us a call. We highly recommend scheduling with Michelle McKusick, a Certified Emotion Code Practitioner.
