Do you ever feel like you are still carrying around some emotional event in your past that you would rather forget? Whether you realize it or not, the fact is you probably are still carrying things around, in ways you might not have imagined.

Thousands of years ago, the Chinese correlated each emotion that we experience with different organs in the body. Many years of careful observation taught these ancient physicians that various emotions seem to actually emanate from specific organs and glands in the body, and too much of any emotion can cause congestion and imbalance in that organ. For example, if you have an abundance of anger in your life, eventually your liver or gall bladder (or both) will become imbalanced. Of course, here in the West, we believe that the brain is the seat of emotions as well as all intelligence, so these old beliefs seem a bit odd, to say the least, and are dismissed as "poppycock" by many of the learned physicians of our day. Nevertheless, the more we learn about the mind-body connection, the more we realize that we really don't know anymore where the mind ends and the body begins. Maybe the Chinese were right after all.

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.  I've 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. Here are some examples:

Debbie thought she was having a heart attack.  She had crushing chest pain and difficulty breathing; her left arm was completely numb, as was the left side of her face.  She said it had been gradually getting worse for 24 hours.  I immediately had her lie down.  After checking her vital signs and seeing that they were normal, I checked her heart for energetic imbalance.  Her "heart circuit" was blown.  Via muscle testing I asked her body if this imbalance was emotional.  Her body answered yes.  The emotion was anguish.  I continue to test her, to see if we could determine when this emotion had become "trapped" in her body.  We went back about three years and then could go no further.  When we determined that the trapped emotion was ‘anguish’ from three years ago, she started to cry and exclaimed "I thought I'd dealt with all that!  I can't believe that is showing up now!"  I asked "can you share with me what happened?"  She replied that three years before, her husband had had an affair.  The news was devastating to her.  It destroyed her marriage, and destroyed her life for awhile, but she gradually came to terms with it, got therapy, and moved on with her life. I released the trapped emotion from her body, and within seconds the feeling came back into her arm and into her face.  Suddenly her difficulty breathing and the chest pain and heaviness were gone.  She left the office a few minutes later, feeling completely fine.

Susan had an earthquake phobia. Living in California, you get used to earthquakes.  Small earthquakes occur in California every day, and are large enough that they make the news several times a week.  The smaller earthquakes, typically around to 2 3 on the Richter scale, are not felt by the general population unless you are within probably a mile or two of the epicenter.  Susan was different.  She felt every earthquake, no matter how small.  A feeling of panic and impending doom would come over her when she felt an earthquake, and she would feeling urge to hold onto the walls or something solid, even though she logically knew that the room wasn't moving.  I asked her body if there is any kind of trapped emotions might have anything to do with this phobia.  Her bodies answer was yes.  In 1972, when Susan was young girl, her home was mere yards from the epicenter of that deadly earthquake which occurred in California that year.  The emotion that we uncovered through testing was terror; the emotion become trapped in her body during the earthquake, and had never been released.  We released the emotion.  Susan was delighted to find that her earthquake phobia was suddenly gone.  She could no longer feel the small earthquakes, and, a few months later, when we had a fairly strong earthquake, she went through it with no feelings of panic or terror.

Jane had originally come to me for treatment of her migraine headaches.  As we talked, however she revealed to me that she suffered from night terrors.  I was astonished to find out that, 2 to three times a week, Jane would wake-up screaming in the middle of the night, from a horrible, recurring nightmare.  But this was not just any nightmare.  She had broken multiple bones including sustaining a skull fracture from diving out of bunk beds when she was younger.  Now, as a married woman with children, their mother screaming and thrashing around several nights every week awakened her children.  After trying unsuccessfully for many years to overcome this problem, Jane had given up.  In Jane's case we found a number of the emotions that become trapped when she was a young girl.  By releasing these trapped emotions over the course of several weeks, we were able to put an end to her night terrors.  I think her children were more grateful that she was!

Over my years in practice, I've seen a wide variety of interesting cases in this regard.  For example, a patient named Mark came to me for treatment of his tennis elbow.  The pain in his right forearm was so excruciating that he was unable to turn the key to start his car.  After working on him for about one week, and seeing no improvement, I decided to probe more deeply and see if perhaps there might be an emotional basis to his illness.  What I found fascinated me.  When I asked Mark's body if his problem was due to a trapped emotion, the answer was yes.  We proceeded to clear five or six trapped emotions that were somehow affecting the muscles of his forearm.  The funny thing was, each emotion had actually been picked up during high school, from girls who had rejected him.  Through our testing, we were able to put a specific girl's name on each individual trapped emotion.  He apparently got rejected quite a bit during high school!  Amazingly, with each trapped emotion that we cleared the discomfort level in his forearm would decrease immediately.  When we finally cleared the last trapped emotion, the pain was completely gone.  He had his full range of motion back, with no further trouble!

How can a trapped emotion exert that kind of pressure on physical tissue in the body?  I believe that the trapped emotion, which is a ball of energy, distorts the magnetic field of the body, thereby distorting the physical body itself, thereby causing pain and malfunction.

I have come to believe that these trapped emotions are responsible for great deal of suffering and illness in our world.  I can't tell you how many times I have seen patients in acute pain find instantaneous relief with the release of a trapped emotion.  Just recently for example, I saw patient who was complaining of pain in her right ovary.  I asked if the pain was emotional, her body said yes.  I determined that the emotion was frustration, that it was related to the patients’ frustration with a female, in fact it was frustration with her mother.  When I told her of my findings, she said "Oh my mother.  She called the three days ago on the telephone and dumped all her problems on me.  Gosh, I wish she would just get a life!"  When I cleared the trapped emotion from her body the ovary pain was instantly gone.

What happens to body tissue when it is continually irritated overtime? In many cases, the tissue goes into a state of metaplasia, or change.  The next step is malignancy, or cancer.  Is it possible the trapped emotions can lead to cancer in the body?  I say the answer is absolutely yes. We do not treat cancer at our clinics, and we make that very clear to our patients.  However, patients do come to our clinics that happen to have cancer.  We tell these patients that although we do not treat cancer, we do attempt to balance the body. We make no promises about their cancer, but we do explain to them that having a more balanced body can only help them and not hurt them. Every patient with cancer that we have ever seen has always had emotions trapped in the malignant tissues. While these particular patients are concurrently undergoing chemotherapy or radiation treatment for their cancers, we find and released the emotions that are trapped, and we believe that it helps. I believe the day will come when all physicians will realize the danger of trapped emotions and the importance of having them released.

The Heart Wall

In March of 1998, we found ourselves in Portland, Oregon at a Nikken Expo. My wife, Jean, awakened me very early on the morning of the day we were supposed to speak. She had had a dream that night. In the dream she saw a chromed steel order-holder, the type used in restaurants for attaching peoples menu requests. Attached to this menu holder were two orders; her interpretation of the dream was that the two holders were significant health issues of hers that we needed to figure out.

Testing myself to see what these items were immediately revealed something we had overlooked in the past. That was the first menu item. As I began to contemplate and test myself for the second item, a picture formed in my mind. It was a hardwood floor, very beautiful and polished. I was given to understand that Jean's heart was, in some symbolic way, underneath this hardwood floor. Fascinated, I began testing to see how thick this floor was. What I found astounded me. This imaginary hardwood floor was not one plank thick, or even two or three. It was five miles thick.

The implications of this fascinating event became apparent as we struggled over the next two weeks to clear this "Heart Wall" from Jean. Apparently, the Heart Wall is a creation of the subconscious mind. 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. When the emotion is one that affects  the heart, such as heartache, guilt, betrayal, and so forth, then the subconscious mind fashions a ‘wall’ around the heart with the energy from these trapped emotions.

This Heart Wall is like the projected image from a movie projector. The subconscious mind is free to choose any material for it. Jean's subconscious chose hardwood. Our testing has revealed a wide variety of substances, thicknesses and characteristics of the Heart Wall. Usually, the material chosen, as well as the thickness have definite symbolic meanings relating to the person's life or circumstances. For example, we have seen Heart Walls range from paper-thin to thousands of miles in thickness. Remember that the Heart Wall is a "projection" of the mind; nevertheless, this "projection" seems to have a definite effect on the body, both mentally and physically.

We believe that Heart Walls affect us in two ways. First, they block the heart energy from flowing through the body; this makes it more difficult for the body to heal itself. Second, they block us from fully opening our hearts to others. In essence, Heart Walls make us numb to others and make it more difficult for us to feel emotions. When you realize that they are put up to protect us in the first place, it all makes sense.

When the Heart Wall is removed from the body, the difference can sometimes be felt immediately. At other times, the change is subtler and takes place over time. One of the main reasons why I teach seminars around the country involves the Heart Wall.  As Doctors, we can never hope to clear enough Heart Walls in our lifetimes to make a very big difference to the world. But if enough individuals are trained in how to release these emotions, many hearts can be "unlocked", and the level of love and understanding in the world will increase. In this small way, maybe we really can change the world. We teach a very simple method of clearing the Heart Wall in our “Body Lingo” Seminar Series. (check our website at www.nelsonhealth.com for seminar scheduling).