TRAPPED EMOTIONS: The Invisible Epidemic

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth is not.

— Mark Twain

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:

Allison's debilitating hip pain left her instantly, and she was able to dance in her performance that night.

Linda's constant feelings of suicidal depression went away.

Jennifer's chronic anxiety was gone, and she felt the total confidence she'd been longing for.

Laurie could feel God's love for her for the first time in her life.

Sheryl was finally able to shed her anger toward her ex-husband, and create a wonderful, loving relationship with a new man.

Julia aced her test, after having failed it several times.

Larry's foot pain disappeared, along with his limp.

Connie's allergies disappeared.

Neil's two-year-long feeling of resentment toward his boss vanished.

Yolaunda finally lost the weight she'd been struggling to lose for years.

Joan's bulimia was gone within a week.

Tom's vision improved.

Jim's shoulder pain disappeared.

Mindy's carpal tunnel syndrome went away.

Sandy's knee pain, which she had seen three other doctors for, was gone in moments.

Carol's night terrors, which had plagued her for over thirty years, were gone within a week, and did not return.

I was present at each of these events and many others like them. In many years of practice and teaching, I have seen countless seemingly miraculous healings such as these, all as a result of simply releasing trapped emotions using the Emotion Code.

My purpose in writing this book is to teach you how to find and remove trapped emotions from yourself and from others.

Whether you are a doctor or a fisherman, a housewife or a teenager, you can learn the Emotion Code. It's simple.

Anyone can learn how to be free from the very real and damaging effects of trapped emotions.

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,...