How To Release Trapped Anger That Causes Pain | Dr. Bradley Nelson

7 Sep 2026 · 7 min · 2 chapters

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In short

Dr. Bradley Nelson discusses how “trapped emotions” (especially anger) can cause or amplify physical pain, and describes releasing them to reduce pain and change behavior.

Guest backgrounds

Dr. Bradley Nelson is a practitioner who worked with athletes and others in his practice, using the “emotion code” to test the subconscious for trapped emotions.

Key claims

Physical pain is often tied to emotional baggage; trapped emotions are described as baseball/softball-sized “balls of energy” that distort the body’s energy flow and can affect blood/chemical processes. Releasing the trapped emotion can rapidly eliminate pain and reduce anger triggers.

Notable examples

A man with severe low back pain (9–9.5/10) had a trapped anger from being wrongly accused of embezzling 20 years earlier; after release, pain dropped instantly to 0. Later he reported long-term “rageaholic” behavior and road rage improved—arguments and anger triggers no longer set him off.

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Understanding Emotional Pain

0:42 to 2:40

Discussion about the connection between emotional baggage and physical pain.

“Unless it's like a car accident or a physical trauma that's happening.”

Case Study of Trapped Anger

2:40 to 5:18

An illustrative story about a patient with trapped anger and its effects.

“because the body itself is just a very complex energy field.”
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0:4190 % of all the physical pain that people have is due to emotional baggage. Really? Yes. Wow. Unless it's like a car accident or a physical trauma that's happening. Yeah. Well, yeah. Or do you think that's tied to emotional pain, too, or emotional baggage? The fascinating thing that I found when I was in practice, and I worked with a lot of athletes, but lots of other people coming in with all kinds of different problems with physical pain. Let me share a story with you. This guy came into my office one day, and he's really got severe low back pain, right? It's like a nine, nine and a half, bumping around 10 with his low back.

1:21And he's talking about surgeries, his next stop. And it's been going on for a while. and using the emotion code i tested him and found he had a trapped emotion the emotion was anger and uh i needed to know a little bit more about this that's one of the questions we ask of the subconscious mind do we need to know more about this i got a yes answer and did a little more testing and found that this had started 20 years before and he immediately remembered and he said yeah i said i know exactly what that is and i said really he said he was working for this company and he was wrongly accused of cooking the books basically you know or embezzling and he was completely innocent and so he was there's no fury quite like that of being wrongly accused and you know that you're not guilty and so he was so mad about that that emotion was so powerful his body couldn't really process it that energy became trapped in his body in his low back 20 years later you see when you have a trapped emotion what we believe is that it's a little ball of energy.

2:23They're invisible, but they're about so big, about the size of a baseball or a softball. And what they do, wherever they lodge in the body, and they can lodge anywhere, they will distort the normal energy field of the body. And so, because that's... The flow of the energy in the body. Exactly. The energy flow through the meridian systems interfered with, because the body itself is just a very complex energy field. When you interfere with that, and when you distort that energy field, you're interfering to some degree with chemical reactions going on in that area with maybe blood flow lint flow to some degree when i released that trapped emotion the pain level went from nine nine and a half to zero instantly right and this guy's he's he's walking around in my office and he's bending over and he's twisting this way and that way and he's saying where did it go because it was completely gone now why'd that happen well when we release that energy suddenly that distorting force is gone.

3:19But now think about this. This guy, a couple days later, came back into the office. And he said, you know, he said, my back pain is still gone. He said, I still can't quite believe it. But he said, when I came in here, I had another problem I didn't tell you about. He said, for as long as I can remember, I've basically been what you'd call a rageaholic. He said, I've really just been a live wire. And he said, I, you know, I'm always getting in arguments with my wife. And I'm, you know, I have to watch the road rage. I've had to go to anger management a couple of times hasn't really helped me but he said since you released that trapped emotion of anger for me from that thing that happened 20 years ago he said i feel really different he said i just feel kind of calm and kind of peaceful and he said things that used to set me off instantly don't set me off anymore he said how did you do that and i said i don't know because i didn't know but at the time you didn't know yeah yeah but here's what we believe you also you also eliminate the pain you're going to feel a lot more joy too well you're going to be less angry if you're like pain-free true but what it what what we believe is that in that guy's life think about this he had this ball of anger you know this literally this ball of frequency that if he could stick a probe into it and measure the emotion it would go right to anger right he had that ball of energy in his low back all those years so when a situation would come along in his life like somebody cuts him off in traffic instant reaction instant because part of his body's already vibrating at that frequency gosh i could i know that feeling i had that for many years where it was like an instant response it was like stimulus anger sure reaction as opposed to response from like a neutral place exactly and that's where he moved to yeah and it's not unusual when those emotional energies are released uh it's you know people often say that when they get rid of enough of their emotional baggage that it's like stepping out of this old suit they've been walking around in into this totally different state of being that is really who they were intended to be, you know, when they first arrived here.

5:20Yeah. Loving, joyful, peaceful. Exactly. High vibrations. Exactly.

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A guy walks in with back pain at a 9.5, ready to book surgery. One session later it’s a zero. Instantly.

The cause wasn’t his spine. It was a ball of trapped anger from being wrongly accused of embezzling 20 years earlier, just sitting in his low back this whole time.

He’d been a self-described rageaholic for years, road rage, fights with his wife, anger management that never stuck. Nobody connected it to a decades-old grudge lodged in his body.

Release the trapped emotion and the pain vanishes on the spot, guy’s literally bending and twisting in the office asking “where did it go?”

Days later he comes back saying the pain’s still gone, but also, the rage is gone. Things that used to set him off instantly just don’t anymore.

Dr. Bradley Nelson’s theory: trapped emotions are invisible balls of frequency stuck in your tissue, distorting your body’s energy field until they’re released.

90% of physical pain, according to him, traces back to emotional baggage, not injury.

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