Let’s face it, religion can be quite the awkward topic when there are differences in belief systems.
We recently received the question: Do you have to be religious to practice The Emotion Code and The Body Code? More specifically, do you have to be Christian? We get this kind of question a lot, so let’s talk about it!
Simply put, The Emotion Code and The Body Code are accessible to people belonging to any or no religious belief system. We respect the various religious beliefs of our practitioners, students and clients. Dr. Nelson teaches that it is very important to ask for help from your higher power at the beginning of a session, because it helps improve your intuition and your results so much. Your higher power is just that – your higher power. People of a Christian background will pray to God and/or Jesus, people of Muslim faith will pray to Allah, people with no religious ideals may choose to acknowledge the higher power of the universe, and so on for every faith or belief system out there. For each of you, it will be different, and should not affect your use of The Body Code and The Emotion Code or your results with either.
We believe that it is important to work within a client’s belief system. This is one reason why we recommend having a moment of silence at the beginning of a session- because it is important to honor your own belief system as well as your client’s. Having your prayer or meditation in silence allows you and your client to each prepare for the session in your own way without religious beliefs becoming involved.
Praying to God in the name of Jesus Christ is mentioned in The Emotion Code and The Body Code because that is what we have had success in doing. You don’t have to pray how we pray; we only give an example of what has worked for us, as so many people have asked for Dr. Nelson’s guidance on the subject.
The Body Code and The Emotion Code were discovered and created by a man of Christian faith, so some of the material may reflect that. But we have tried to offer other options and interpretations for those who are not Christian, as we obviously know that many of you would prefer something different.
These healing systems have been created so that all the children of the world can be helped by them, no matter what they believe!
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What an intelligent heart-felt reply to Dr Nelson’s article…
Thank You 10,000X’s Thomas Turbyne LMT
Dr. Nelson,
I can’t thank you enough for addressing this question and for your attitude of inclusion and acceptance toward this matter. This point is at the core of what draws me to this work. If the work were to be dependent upon a particular faith or belief system, I would not be practicing it.
I have become perhaps ultra-sensitive to ideas of being “overly concerned” about what an individual’s private and personal beliefs are. I was brought up in a particular Christian church environment and taught that what “my elders” were saying was the absolute truth, not to be questioned. The way of their wisdom was that our particular church was the “the only true way” to get into heaven and that it was tough luck for anyone else. Ignorance was no excuse. (Even if you were a member of this church, there was no comforting thought that you might be so fortunate as to be good enough to get in. Man was inherently evil and it was only “by the grace of God” that you would get through heaven’s pearly gates. You might get to St. Peter and he would open his book to your page and be told, “Hmmmm. Sorry, even though you took 1 million steps that were just fantastic, Sammie, excellent work…There was this one step you took back when you were 14 that well……” (Trap door opens and down you go barreling into eternal hell fire and damnation.) It was a horrible thing to live with that fear from day to day.
One night, when I was 7 or 8, at bedtime, prayer time, I was worried for the souls of my beloved grandpa and grandma who had both just died in our home and were not “members” of “our church.” Again, I had been taught that our church was the Only Way In, period. We were the only ones who had it right. My most sweet and wonderful grandparents had been outside of that membership. I asked my mother’s opinion, of which I held most dear, if Grandpa and Grandma would go to heaven? Mother responded bluntly and with regret, “It’s really sad, but according to the Bible, no.”
My heart was broken. This crack in my heart was the beginning of my questioning and searching for something beyond this. There was just no way (was there?) that a so-called Loving God would condemn these 2 precious people to an eternal hell fire because they didn’t “use the right passwords.” If they couldn’t make it in, how could I, as I knew I couldn’t hope to ever be better than they were. They were simple folks, born in the Appalachian Mountains in the late 1800s and then grew up in the Ozarks. They were my perfect models of loving human beings, without any apparent motivation of religion or anything else to be so. Their certain eternal damnation just didn’t not compute in my little brain.
Now I know that all religions do not believe this way, thankfully. However, having been forced and immersed in a way of believing that was so restrictive and constrictive, in cracking open, I have become very open to and accepting of different beliefs of all kinds. Life is much more interesting to me that way. I believe every person has “something of worth to bring to the table.” We are all teachers. We all have free wills and are free to go our own ways of our own choosing.
I’ve been present at many of your seminars and you’ve always made it clear to me that the spiritual component of this work is private and up to the individual. You respectfully recognize that your own belief system, which you do not hide nor press upon others, is your own and that mine is mine. You always address “God” or “Creator” as being whatever we personally understand that to be. This powerful healing work is for all, no matter what particular spiritual belief we each hold, or not, for that matter. The healing power of this work is limitless and not dependent upon what is in our heads but more so what is in our hearts. My belief is that what is at the core of each of our hearts is inherent goodness and love.
When we find ourselves before a doctor (perhaps lying in a ditch, spleen laid out beside us?) do we ask what religion he/she is before allowing him/her to assist us? Does the massage therapist or other health practitioner ask us what religion we are before we lie on their table or submit to their healing hands? Did the “good samaritan” care about this?
This work reaches, helps, heals anyone no matter what their belief system. All that might be helpful to be required is the belief in the inherent goodness in each of us and that Love truly has the power to heal all.
My personal practice is to greet each person with the attitude of “Namaste’.” “I see you.” “The Divine in me greets and recognizes the Divine in you.”
It’s crucial to me in doing this work that I keep the work separate from politics and religion. I respect everyone’s personal journey as we walk our paths together.
I send this comment along with much love, respect and thanks to you for being the conduit of this accessible to all, non-discrimnatory, truly loving, beneficial, life changing, Emotion Code/Body Code healing method. I have personally experienced so much healing since stumbling across your work in 2009 and for the most part feel freed from a whole heck-of-a-lot of needless “emotional baggage” I was unintentionally carrying around.
Thank you, thank you, thank you, Dr. Nelson.
I see you. And I see your heart, and it is exceptionally good,
Lovingly submitted from my Dept. of “For what it’s worth,”
Sammie Lipscomb, EC/BC Practitioner
Beautifully said, Sammie. Thanks to you. Namaste.
Natalie 🙂