When you have an intensely difficult experience, the emotions you feel may be quite strong! However, with time, they should fade. Sometimes they’re just too much to handle, or for some reason your body holds onto that negative energy in the form of what many call “emotional baggage.” We call these emotional energies trapped emotions, and the energy healing method the Emotion Code® may help you release them. This can enable emotional healing, helping you feel better after enduring a traumatic experience, even if it happened many years ago.

Why Energy Healing for Emotional Hardship Is Important

Negative emotions may have a profound effect on your quality of life. Along with taking an emotional toll, they can also affect your physical health, and mental balance, and even prevent you from having meaningful, lasting relationships. 

After a traumatic experience, releasing these negative emotions could help you achieve greater well-being and live a more positive, productive life. It doesn’t matter whether the event occurred last week or 30 years ago — releasing the baggage that came with it may be key to full emotional healing. Energy healing is one method that may enable your natural ability to let it all go.

How Negative Emotions May Become Trapped

When you suffer something traumatic, it can be extremely difficult to confront the resulting feelings. You may feel like doing so would force you to relive what you’ve already endured. In our experience, these unconfronted or “unprocessed” feelings may fester and could prevent you from sleeping well, cause tension, and make you feel angry, sad, bitter, anxious, guilty, or fearful. Over time, having these festering feelings may cause their negative energies to become lodged within your body — where they could cause you to spiral into those feelings over and over again.

By learning to identify these trapped, negative emotions, you can eliminate the mental, physical, and emotional discomfort that could be preventing you from living the life you deserve.

How Energy Healing Could Help You Deal With the Past

Energy healing is a term that encompasses a variety of holistic practices that can help individuals address and resolve past emotions by working with the body’s energy systems. Here’s how energy healing can assist in dealing with the past:

1. Release Trapped Emotions

Past challenging experiences can create blockages in the body’s energy flow. Energy healing techniques, such as the Emotion Code, aim to release these blockages. The release of trapped emotions can lead to a cathartic experience, providing relief and a sense of emotional freedom.

Using muscle testing, or the noninvasive practice of tapping into the subconscious mind in order to access information about physical, mental, and emotional well-being, is one of the most effective ways to identify trapped emotions. Your subconscious mind is so intimately connected to positive and negative energies, that by testing your muscles’ natural response and resistance to these energies, you can uncover the emotions that may be keeping you from full emotional healing. Using guidance from the Emotion Code®, muscle testing can help expose any trapped emotions and release them forever.

2. Balance the Energy Centers of the Body

Energy work can help balance the chakras, or energy centers of the body. Releasing negative energy can allow the body to bring the chakras into balance. Each chakra is associated with different emotions, and when a chakra is balanced and open, it can be easier to process and feel those emotions. For example, the heart chakra is linked to love and forgiveness. Balancing this chakra can help release past heartaches, and open the heart to a deeper connection.

3. Reducing Stress and Anxiety

Energy healing techniques can help calm the nervous system. Many energy healing practices incorporate elements of mindfulness. These practices can help bring more peace and calm to the mind. 

4. Enhance Self-Awareness

During energy healing sessions, individuals often become more aware of their inner thoughts and feelings. This heightened self-awareness can lead to insights about past behaviors and patterns, facilitating personal growth.

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5. Encourage Forgiveness and Compassion

Many energy healing practices encourage forgiveness and compassion – of others, and ourselves! This focus can help release past hurts and promote emotional healing.

6. Spiritual Connection

Some energy healing modalities incorporate spiritual elements, which may help those who engage in them feel connected to something greater than themselves. For many, this provides a powerful sense of peace and acceptance regarding past events.

7. Reprogram Negative Beliefs

By working with the body’s energy systems, energy healing can help create new neural pathways, supporting the development of more positive thoughts and behaviors.

8. Improve Body-Mind Connection

Energy healing addresses the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit. By harmonizing these aspects, individuals can achieve a more integrated and balanced state, making it easier to move beyond past traumas and live more fully in the present.

Acknowledge the Process 

Releasing trapped emotions with energy healing is a process which cannot be successfully completed by cutting corners — so it’s a good thing that the process is so very simple! When working on your own emotional healing, it’s important to take every step — including acknowledging the experiences and distressing feelings you may have been harboring. You don’t have to relive bad times, but it is important to realize how those experiences may be affecting you today.

As destructive and damaging as negative emotions might be, acknowledging their existence, working to understand their meaning, and celebrating how they helped you reach an intimate part of your mind could help you find joy and insight throughout the process of releasing them.

Following these recommendations and using energy healing, you could finally release emotions that might be preventing you from achieving the physical, mental, and emotional healing you deserve and start living a happier, more confident life.

Releasing trapped emotions can be a simple process with the Emotion Code. Want to learn more, and start dealing with past issues through energy work? Reach out to our certified energy healing practitioners today!