What Is The Emotion Code? Leveling The Playing Field Of Life

Ever feel like you can't talk yourself out of harmful patterns or difficult relationships? Do you feel like you know something is off and you feel stuck, but you can't quite pinpoint where or what it is? Trapped emotions have been collecting in your body and around your heart your whole life, and just like big rocks can collect in a stream, they can start to block your life force. Enter the Emotion Code — a gentle way to release trapped emotions that you've been collecting over time.

I can tell you what the Emotion Code is from a textbook point of view. It's a method for identifying and clearing trapped emotions. We identify the emotions by using muscle testing (also called applied kinesiology) and then release the stuck emotional energies by a clean sweep of a magnet down the governing meridian line (basically from the forehead down to the back of the neck). A simple and beautiful process that is efficient and gentle, but the shifts in your life can be life-changing. If you've ever felt stuck, fatigued, hopeless or blocked, it could be trapped emotions. Find out how these trapped emotions affect you and how removing them will restore the balance and clarity you desire.

There are three main ways that a trapped emotion can affect your wellbeing.

Emotional and Mental Patterns

Holding onto these trapped emotions over time can contribute to recurring feelings of anxiety, irritability, emotional numbness, or difficulty trusting and connecting with others. Trapped emotions can also make it difficult to move on from a situation or a relationship. The unresolved emotional energy from past experiences can influence your reactions to present experiences.

Physical Discomfort or Illness

Trapped emotions may be a contributing factor in chronic tension or pain. They can also cause fatigue, headaches, digestive issues and general feelings of low vitality, as well as disrupted sleep. Over time, the trapped emotions can disrupt the body's natural balance as well as hinder your body’s own healing wisdom.

Relationship and Behavioral Patterns

Emotions that have been trapped in the body can shape and ingrain habits as well as affect our relationships with the people in our lives. When emotions are not released, they can create emotional walls (especially when part of the Heart Wall).  They can play a part in defensiveness and self-sabotage. They also keep us stuck in unhealthy relationship cycles and pose problems with communication and intimacy. Trapped emotions can also contribute to low self-worth and low self-confidence. They can even block abundance or prosperity.

I believe in this process of releasing trapped emotions wholeheartedly. I've seen major shifts and gray veils lifted in just one session — but it must be said that there are things the Emotion Code can't do. It's not a substitute for therapy or deep grief work. While releasing emotions can support healing deeply held wounds, it's not a magic eraser. It's a vital tool, but it's not meant to bypass the human experience or eliminate the need to feel, process and integrate difficult emotions.

The Emotion Code also doesn't erase the memory of an experience. It doesn't cause someone to forget their story; rather, it reduces the emotional intensity or "charge" connected to that particular situation. After release work, I notice my clients experience less of the overwhelm, thought-looping or physical tension around the incident or event. Releasing trapped emotions creates more space for clarity, perspective and healthier processing.

It's also important to recognize that trapped emotions are not always connected to dramatic or life-changing events — and the biggest emotions don't always come up first in a session. Our subconscious knows the perfect order in which we are to release our stuck emotions. Sometimes they stem from smaller moments that were forgotten or never fully acknowledged, expressed or processed. A harsh comment, ongoing stress, feeling unseen, childhood embarrassment, loneliness or repeated disappointments can all leave emotional residue behind. Sometimes it isn't the size of the event that matters, but whether our bodies and psyche were in a place to fully process the emotions at the time the incident occurred.

The Emotion Code is also not a cure-all for physical illness or disease. Releasing emotions around the aforementioned will most certainly help ease the pain, allow flow and create balance, but it should never be seen as the guaranteed, instantaneous cure. Physical illness can be a complex mix of genetics, lifestyle, nutrition and medical conditions. The Emotion Code is an effective way to release any underlying emotional factors that could be contributing to pain or illness, but it is certainly not intended to diagnose or cure disease.

I think of the Emotion Code as a superpower. I clear emotions before an important meeting, when I'm feeling anxious or fatigued, or around relationships that I feel need some "tuning up." What's really cool for me? Clearing emotions around something small that's been draining my mental energy. Recently, I was exasperated by my messy kids. I found five emotions to release: Overwhelm, Hopelessness, Resentment, Pride and Sorrow. I expected the first four, but was curious about sorrow. Upon further testing, sorrow was related to my underlying belief that worth = cleanliness. After clearing all of these emotions, I felt the tension melt away and productive energy return. I was able to calmly course correct and communicate with clarity (after a little feet stomping!).

If you are curious whether the Emotion Code can help you navigate your life, please reach out and schedule a free call. I like to think of releasing emotions as taking the ball and chain off your ankle while trying to play a soccer game. Living free of trapped emotions puts you on the field—clear, free and ready to take on your beautiful life!

Finally Release What Doesn't Serve You

Julie Mast, Emotion Code Practitioner