The Trapped Emotions Blocking Your Love and Health | Dr. Bradley Nelson

24:30It sounds unbelievable. And it actually is kind of unbelievable, but it really did happen. So the message here, C, is that all along we have had within us this, really this incomprehensibly powerful computer that we've never really known how to talk to. We've never really known how to get information out of it, but it knows everything about us. It knows why you have a symptom. If you're diagnosed with some kind of a disease, believe me, your subconscious mind, that internal computer knows exactly why, and it knows what needs to be done to help you to maximize your life in every possible way. the answers are all inside, but we haven't been asking until now.

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28:38Lewis Howes:See the reviews, see what stands out, and see if BetterHelp is right for you. Visit betterhelp.com slash greatness. That's B-E-T-T-E-R-H-E-L-P dot com slash greatness. If someone watching or listening right now is hearing this and saying, okay, this sounds interesting, but how can I do this for myself? I don't have access to a practitioner or, you know, I'm not going to go find someone that can help me with this. How can I start doing this for myself right now to release these emotions that maybe I've been storing for years so that I can start to feel more free in my body, start to feel more flow in my body, right?

29:16Absolutely. Well, what we have done, my team has set up a special website actually for your listeners. And that's at emotioncodenow.com. And they can go there. And we've got some special videos that are free that they can watch and they can learn how to do this. They can learn how to release their first trapped emotion. And there's information there about the books. And if they want to, they can book an appointment with a practitioner. We've got lots of them all over the world. And by the way, one of the cool things about this is that it's energy medicine in its purest form. And so it's not bound by distance.

29:47So you might find that the person you love working with that helps you the most, maybe they live in Singapore or Berlin or something, you know, remote healings, remote. Yeah, it works remotely. And you know what else is great? It works on animals. Wow. And that's, that's one of the really fun. That's cool. Proofs of this work because animals, you know, uh, they just get better. And, and so, uh, there's no placebo effect, right. with animals and it definitely works. In fact, one of my very favorite stories is my wife and I got a call one day to work on this horse. It had a problem with its hindquarters.

30:24It wasn't tracking right and so they couldn't ride it. And then a vet come out and look at the horse and there wasn't anything obviously wrong. So then we got a call. So we go down to work on this horse. So when you work on a horse, back then what we would do is I would have one person put a hand on the horse and then hold out their other arm and then I would talk to the horse and and then the answers coming from the horse's subconscious mind would manifest on that person's arm strong or weak right that's crazy it is crazy but I'm telling you it works that's how we did it so I think the horse's name was ranger so if you can imagine I've got somebody touching the horse holding out their arm and I'm talking to the horse or it is your name ranger yes that's all right do you have a trapped emotion that is contributing to the problem with your hind quarters?

31:15Yes. What's the emotion? Is it in column A? No. Okay. It's in column B. Is it in an odd row? No. So is it in row two? Okay. It's in row two or whatever. We quickly found the emotion was sorrow, right? We narrowed it down. So then I'm asking these questions like, well, was it sorrow about another horse? No. Was it about a dog? No. A cat? No. A human? No. And I'm kind of running out of ideas, right? And suddenly a bird flies overhead. So I thought, well, all right. Was it about a bird? Yes. Rock solid. And I started laughing and so did all these other people standing around. This would always gather a little crowd, you know, interesting people that were interested to see the crazy doctor come and talk to the horse.

31:59So we're all laughing, but the horse's owner was there and she said, you know what? She said, wait a minute. She said, I think I know what this is about. She said that the week before, right in front of this horse's stall, a baby bird fell out of its nest and fell down onto this little paved pathway and struggled for its life and died. And so I asked the horse, you know, is that what caused this emotion of sorrow? Yes. and so then you know just took a magnet and swiped it down the horse's back right three times to release that emotional energy they took the horse immediately out and walked it and the lameness was completely gone that's crazy yeah like i got so many stories like that we have over 10 000 stories

32:53Lewis Howes:like this so walk me through the the different codes then because you have emotion you have body and belief. Why did one lead to the next instead of the first one being all you needed? Right. Well, the emotion code book, I left practice in 2004 because I was practicing all week long, 60 hours a week. And then, you know, going and teaching seminars on the weekend, trying to get the word out about this. And I finally realized, okay, it's, it's time for me to just do this. And I've got to write a book. So that was the emotion code. Well, the emotion code is all about how to get rid of your emotional baggage, how to get rid of it from your animals, how to keep, you know, how to talk to them and get information and how to, you know, how to work with people at a distance and how to release inherited emotions and so on.

33:43And so that's the emotion code. And the emotion code, of course, has been translated now into many, many languages around the world and so on. The next book really was the body code. and what happened was I had taught bits and pieces of this whole method that I had learned. When I was in practice, because I was an old computer programmer, I always had a computer there with me. And when I would find something new, I would add it to this big mind map that I was building. And it eventually turned out that there were six different categories of imbalances that cause our sicknesses and so on. And emotions are in one of those categories.

34:22And the physical trauma energy we talked about, that's in that same category. But then there's also, there are nutritional and lifestyle issues. There are pathogens that get into the body that set up housekeeping. There's toxins and misalignments and disconnections between the spirit and the physical body and organs and glands and circuitry and all kinds of stuff. so I thought when the emotion good book came out I remember thinking okay eventually uh doctors I'll teach doctors all this other information because it'll be great for them it'll change their practice like it did mine they'll be able to get you know have great success with everybody and that was my thought just kind of a loose idea well about a year later I woke up one morning and my mind was full of instruction.

35:08And the instruction was, you need to take everything you've learned about natural healing and put it into a self-study course that anyone can learn and make it available to everyone, everywhere. And it was so clear. This was not coming out of my own head. It was from up above. And I remember thinking, well, wait, are you sure about this? This sounds like it could be a lot of work. I don't know. So I sat on that for about three months and then I finally got to work. And that was the result of that after about a year was what we call the body code, which is this this really breakthrough revolutionary way to give the subconscious mind rails, essentially, to be able to to to know how to ask the subconscious mind questions to take you wherever.

35:54So it's kind of like just a simplified way to get the information from the subconscious. You don't have to be psychic. Anybody can learn how to do this. In fact, kids can learn how to do it. So that's the body code. So then eventually I wrote the body code book. And the body code book is really kind of the handbook for the app. We have this app called the body code system. them. Well, when we wrote the Emotion Code book, when I wrote it, my wife and I talked about it, and we realized eventually, one day, we were going to need to write another book just about the heart wall, because the heart wall is this other topic that is arguably the most important part of this work, and it has to do with the heart.

36:44And, And, you know, the heart really, the ancient peoples believed that the heart was the seat of the soul and the source of love and creativity and romance. They believed that the heart was the core of our being and all these great things. In the West, we've never really given any credence to those ideas. If anything, we've thought, well, you know, those people anciently, they just had a lot of poetic lines. They didn't have the kind of instruments we have today. But guess what? Now we're finding out, oh, gee, it looks like they were right and we've been wrong. We know, for example, now that people can literally die of a broken heart.

37:16It's crazy, right? Right? Yeah. Crazy. And it happens, unfortunately, probably almost every day. It was the Japanese that actually came up with that. They found that women of a certain age, you know, over 65 or so, if they were going through some emotional event that was traumatic, they'd go into heart failure and their heart would assume the shape of what looked exactly like what they call a takatsubo or a Japanese fisherman's jar that the Japanese fishermen use to catch octopus. A taco is an octopus, right? So it's a Takotsubo octopus jar. And I've seen the x-rays. It's weird. The heart looks exactly like that.

37:53And so the heart's failing. But those are cases where, you know, eventually, I mean, when, if you survive it, the doctors will say, well, it wasn't really a myocardial infarction. your enzymes are normal, but we don't know what it was. But if you have something like that, I mean, if you felt like you're having a heart attack, go to the hospital, but people die of this.

38:16Lewis Howes:It's the emotions though. It's not a heart attack. It's more like the grief or the trapped emotion that they don't release. Yeah, exactly. They don't process. I had a case once. In fact, one of the very first cases that I saw many years ago, this woman came in and she thought she was having a heart attack. And she'd been a patient of mine. I hadn't seen her for a month or so, but she comes in, she's got crushing chest pain, difficulty breathing, left arm completely numb, left side of her face totally numb. It's like a stroke or something. Well, our office was right next to a medical center. And so I told my staff, look, you know, we, you know, just stand by, give me one minute with her.

38:51And in that one minute, using the, what we now call the emotion cut, I was able to find out that she had a trapped emotion of grief that had gotten trapped in her body three years before when she found out her husband was having an affair. And when we landed on that, she burst into tears and she said, I can't believe that's affecting me. I thought I dealt with all that. And when I released that trapped emotion from her, uh, the feeling came back into her arm and into her face within about three seconds, the chest pain melted away. The difficulty breathing was gone. 10 minutes later, Louis, after joking with me and my staff and talking with us, she left the office feeling totally fine.

39:33And I remember after she left sitting down at my desk with my head kind of spinning, thinking, wow, what did I just witness? But see, think about life. I mean, imagine being born into a planet where you can't feel any emotions at all. I mean, imagine not being able to feel happiness or joy, but not feeling grief or sadness. Imagine not ever being able to feel excited again. imagine not ever being able to feel depressed again well the emotions are the color right they give all the color to the fabric of our existence without emotions life wouldn't really even be worth living right it would just be a flat line it'd be just a gray scale and so emotions are so important to our lives but we're finally beginning to realize that we have emotional baggage, that animals develop emotional baggage.

40:31In fact, can I share a story with you really quickly? This is from a woman named Laura from Florida. She said, Octavia, a 15-year-old girl who sells organic eggs from her pet chickens, faced a heartbreaking situation when a raccoon killed four of her birds. The survivors were so traumatized that they began coming into the house through the dog door and sleeping in the guest room. She held each of the 10 survivors and shared their names with me. And I released different trapped emotions from each bird. This is probably at a distance. The very next day they returned to the yard as if nothing had happened.

41:09Lewis Howes:Wow. What do you think is the biggest thing people get wrong about the subconscious mind?

41:18Well, I think what people get wrong about the subconscious mind usually is that they have, they just don't know they have no idea how incomprehensibly powerful it is right is it more powerful than the conscious mind oh absolutely really yeah why is that think of it this way okay uh all of your life your subconscious mind has been keeping you alive creating millions of new cells every minute for example they say that every cell in the body is equivalent in complexity to a full-size aircraft carrier with thousands of people on board working at their individual jobs with jets on the ramp with their engines spooled up ready to take off that's how complex a single cell is and you know there's probably 35 or so trillion of those or maybe more you know in our bodies your subconscious mind knows what's going on with every single cell down to the quantum level Right.

42:13I mean, if you needed to, you could ask your subconscious mind about one single individual cell and it could answer any question that you wanted to about that cell. It's mind blowing. Right. There are trillions of chemical reactions going on every every moment in your life. Your subconscious mind. Right. Is supervising all of those. I think that the subconscious mind is the most powerful computer that exists in the known universe. And we, you know, we're just we just don't even think about it. We take it for granted. You know, it runs our lives. It keeps air moving in and out of our lungs, keeps our hearts beating and all of that.

42:52And it also is remembering everything. And, you know, so I think that that's what people miss is that it's well, it's divine. I believe in nature. I believe that we're children of God, that he created these spirits for us and that we literally, in a very, very literal way, are brothers and sisters, right? In the most literal way possible. We have the same father. We come from the same family, right? We're all from the family of God. We might look different, but, you know, we're really all the same.

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46:03Lewis Howes:Wayfair. Every style, every home. Why do you think the conscious mind is so bad at knowing what the subconscious already knows? I asked a question once, you know, because what I used to do, I had heard that the conscious mind is, you know, is maybe 10 % of our intelligence, right? And so I had taught that for a long time. And then I thought, you know, maybe, I don't think it's 10%. It can't be quite that much. So one day I actually muscle tested this on somebody. And I've done this on several people. and what i get when i muscle test this and ask the subconscious mind i get that the conscious mind is 0.000000001 percent of our intelligence really yes isn't that interesting and you know when people die and they go to the other side i mean imagine if you could move the decimal point just one place be incredible but people die and they go to the other side and they come back and sometimes they talk about how their mind expands in this incredible way and they can ask as many questions as they want at the same time and all the answers flow in spontaneously and are all understood perfectly when they die and come back when they die when they're on the other side yeah so i think that in this life yeah i think we're i think our ability to access our subconscious mind is dialed back to a great degree and i think that there are reasons for that i think that we're here to learn or what well i think that yeah i don't know i mean i think that we're here to learn to live by faith and we're here in this environment where we we have everything that we need right and ultimately when you get to the end of your life you find out that your life is the end result of all the choices that you made and hopefully you chose wisely right and um but when you die, if you watch these near-death experiences, you know, people talk about how there's never really any judgment, even if they see their whole life and they often report how they get to experience the things that they did or said through the eyes and through the feelings of other people.

48:14And the ripple effect, right? Yeah. They get to experience it from all sides, which is really amazing. But it's never about judgment. It's always just about learning, right? And so, yeah, I think that this is a very important part of our learning. We're here. And I think the most important thing we can do is to learn how to love, right? And what's interesting is when people get rid of that emotional baggage, and especially when that heart wall, you know, that wall that gets built up, when that gets taken down, people often fall in love who never thought they would.

48:48Lewis Howes:What do people's life look like when they're living with a heart wall without actually knowing it? Well, you know, about 93 % of people have a heart wall and don't know it. And so it's the majority of people. It's how most people are living. And what does a heart wall actually mean? The heart is everything the ancients believed it to be. And we're finally beginning to realize all of that now. Well, when you feel like your heart's going to break at some point and you feel that physical sensation, which most people have felt and can remember at some point, maybe more than once. All right. For some people, it's multiple times.

49:21the subconscious mind will build a wall to try to protect the heart because the heart really is the core of our being keeps it alive it keeps us alive and and it also you know there's a little brain in the heart 40 000 neurites and they've known about this for many years but it wasn't until the early 90s that they actually looked at the communications between the brain up here and the brain in the heart and what they found really was weird because they found that the vast majority of the communications were going from the heart brain to the brain in the head. First from the heart to the brain.

49:56Exactly. Indicating that, gee, maybe the brain that is in our heads is obeying the messages sent by the brain and the heart. From the emotions, from the heart center. Yeah, exactly. Interesting. They've also found interesting things about this little brain in the heart, that it actually has the ability of precognition. In other words, they've done tests and they found that there are times when a split second before something actually happens in reality, this heart brain will register it. Isn't that interesting? Yeah. Wow. So I think that information that comes into us, inspiration from above comes in to the heart brain.

50:35Right. And, you know, it's so interesting because when people have heart transplants, they sometimes inherit the memories of the donor. sometimes, you know, the, the affinities of the donor. I mean, you get a heart transplant, suddenly you love baseball. You talk to the heart donor family and they'll say, well, yeah, our son was a baseball player. His heart's beating in your chest now. Isn't that crazy? Yeah. Amazing things. Um, one of the most incredible ones was this nine-year-old girl who got a heart transplant from another young girl who had been murdered. And when she recovered, she started having these nightmares, nightmares that she was being killed and the nightmares were so consistent that her parents took her to the police and they were able to make composite drawings from her descriptions no i'm serious from her descriptions that the murderer and the murder weapon they led to the arrest and conviction of the actual murderer that is crazy and the moral of that story is if you're going to get a heart transplant

51:34Lewis Howes:don't get one from somebody that was murdered exactly wow that's what i'd say wow you know That's interesting because I always felt like I was a very loving kid, loving teen, loving adult, like just loving in general. But I had a lot of anger as well. Like when someone, when something would happen, I would feel an instant like reaction. If it felt like it was unjust or if I felt like it was an abuse or an abandonment or some type of feeling. Right. And even if it wasn't happening, if I interpreted it as happening, I would feel that. I would feel that friction or frustration or blockage. and it wasn't all the time necessarily but it kind of come and go and and then i'd have some breakthroughs and i'd have some healing and then it'd get a little better but then it was still kind of there right until five years ago i was doing some pretty deep therapy healing work and at one point um something that my therapist said to me after and i was doing six to seven hour sessions at a time.

52:38Lewis Howes:So I was like, it wasn't just let's talk for an hour and like come back in a few weeks. It was like every weekend, six to seven hours at a session. Let's figure out what's really going on. Intense. And it was a lot of exercises, role-playing, you know, emotional things, all these different things to kind of see what's coming up. And at one point, kind of all the work and all the reflection and all the experiences and lessons finally landed, finally connected to my heart. Where there's something that she said, I found it was like, oh, okay. Like my body finally got it. And there was a pain in my chest that I was having for a number of years that would come and go.

53:23Lewis Howes:And I was feeling it at that moment. It was like kind of a heaviness, a weight or a clenchness on my heart. And all of a sudden, like it finally resonated to where it was like almost like a pop sensation where I thought I hurt myself and I'm sitting here on a, in a chair and I'm not doing anything physically active. And I thought like I hurt myself because that's like my brain, my heart, my whole body had a realization, an awareness that I am safe and I'm going to be safe. And this pain popped and it was almost like plasma or like a sensation of like rushing through my body from every angle, from my heart, all through my body, my head, my fingers, my toes rushing.

54:07Lewis Howes:And I remember just being like, Oh shoot, what's going on? I was like really nervous. Cause like I wasn't gonna be able to control anything. And I felt this rush throughout my whole body. And all I was doing was sitting there. And I remember saying like after a couple minutes ago, something's happening right now. Give me a moment. And after a couple of moments, I go, man, I have zero pain in my chest anymore. And I'd felt pain for years. And I don't know if, I don't know if that was an extreme heart wall that I was, you know, living with for many years that finally kind of had a release or some type of sensation energetically that then rushed to my body.

54:42Lewis Howes:I don't know physically how to calculate what happened physically in the body, but is it something that you might be able to explain what chemically happened or physically happened with that pain released from the heart and rushed throughout the body? Well, I've seen this kind of thing many times with people. I mean, not exactly as you described, but I've seen lots and lots of people with heaviness in the chest that they have for years and decades. And one of the beautiful things about the emotion code, for example, is that it's very, very fast. Now, It took you a lot of work and a lot of hours and many sessions where we're usually, you know, we're able to get results like that with people often in a single session or a few sessions.

55:28Yeah.

55:29Lewis Howes:Does someone ever have that type of sensation where they say like something exploded in their heart? I've heard that kind of thing before. And there was a rush throughout their body. Yeah. I wonder what that was. It was probably some emotional baggage that your subconscious mind was holding on to that finally through all that processing, you were able to release. And then suddenly you had blood flow. Really? Yes. That's probably what it was. I've seen that kind of thing before where when we have trapped emotions, they will definitely interfere sometimes with blood flow. And when you release, all of a sudden people can feel blood flowing.

56:04It's really interesting. I mean, yeah, it's a quantum phenomenon really, but then there's also, of course, all these physical effects, but I'm glad you had that experience.

56:12Lewis Howes:I did too, because I haven't had that heart pain in five plus years. And you say that people, once they kind of let go of this heart wall, they tend to find love pretty quickly or they bring more love into their life. They often do. Let me share a story with you. One of my very favorite stories is one of the very first people that I worked on. after we had this experience where we learned about this heart wall. And that was an interesting experience. But one of the very first people I worked on was this woman who came in to see me. She had neck pain. Her neck pain was about a nine on a zero to 10 scale.

56:47And as I was talking with her, she told me that she was a nurse. She was 38 years old and she was single. She had not dated in eight years and she was never going to date again. She was sworn to, you know, being single the rest of her life. And she was an attractive person. And I said, well, why do you, how'd you arrive at that? How'd you make that decision? And she said that eight years before, she was really deeply in love with this guy that dumped her and broke her heart. And that was it. No more dating. I'm not going to open myself up. I'm not going to be vulnerable anymore. Never again. And she's got this neck pain and that's what brought her into the office.

57:23Right. So I said, okay, so I started checking her and I find she has a heart wall, right? There are three layers, three emotions making up this wall. Now you can't see this wall. It's invisible, but these three layers all had to do with the breakup from eight years before. So just took a few minutes, you know, cleared one, two, clear the last one. When I cleared the last one, suddenly the neck pain went from nine to zero. Wow. I mean, just instantly. Right. And she was so thrilled because that's why she'd come in. The neck pain. Yeah. The neck pain. So her neck pain's gone. Her heart wall is also gone.

57:54So she leaves the office feeling fine. Doesn't come back. Three months later, I always remember this. I saw her in my hallway in my office and I said, Hey, I said, how are you doing? What's going on? She said, you know, she said, my neck has been fine since I was here, but she said, you cleared that heart wall for me. And that really works. She said about two weeks after I was here, I ran into my childhood sweetheart and found out he's been living right around the corner from me for almost eight years. And we're dating. and we're in love. And I think he's going to ask me to marry him, right? And I just thought, wow, what a switch, right?

58:34Now think about that. Why had she never, he lived right around the corner for eight years. Why'd she never run into him? She blocked it. She blocked it. She had this wall up. And so it didn't happen until that wall was gone. Let me tell you one other story. One of my favorite other stories about this. This woman brought her son in. He was nine years old. And she said that what had happened was, first thing that happened was she found that he wouldn't hand in his homework if he if he did it he wouldn't hand it in or he wouldn't do it and she'd go into his room sometimes at night and he'd be on the floor and she'd say what are you doing on the floor and he'd say i don't deserve to be in a bed and she thought like that's weird and so finally she paid a surprise visit to his classroom one day only to find his teacher berating him for being pathetic and so she took him out of school and tried to do homeschool that didn't work.

59:23She took him to see a psychiatrist and a psychologist. And she was told that he was clinically depressed at nine years old, but they couldn't be helped because he wouldn't admit that he was depressed. He had this grin kind of pasted on all the time because he knew he was supposed to be happy. He should be happy, but he was so depressed. And so he kind of had this fake sort of smile pasted on. He's nine years old. He's trying to deal with it, right? so my wife and I worked on him we found he had a heart wall and there were several layers several emotions making up this wall and they all had to do with tragic things that happened in the extended family and a couple cousins died in a car wreck and so on and so these layers we cleared those layers took us about a half hour total we got to the very last emotion the one that had actually formed this heart wall.

1:00:15Here's what had happened. He was five years old at the time. His big sister was babysitting him at this family reunion at a lake in California. And they were out on this dock and there was no adult supervision around. It was the two of them, but also they were joined by this other little boy that she was watching, a little five-year-old cousin, his best friend. And she decided it would be a great idea to try to teach this little cousin how to swim and his body disappeared under the dock and about an hour later the divers pulled his body out from under the dock and of course he's long dead oh and his body's blue and um the crushing weight of guilt that his sister is feeling for having such a horrific thing happen on her watch as the babysitter oh that emotional energy that emotion of guilt became absorbed into his body and immediately formed into a wall of energy around his heart to protect his heart because his heart was breaking, right?

1:01:21For her, but also for his best little friend that now was dead. And so that was the last emotion that we cleared. And then the muscle testing showed the heart wall was gone. So she takes him home. So in the next couple of days, he's just kind of lying around lethargic. And she was thinking, well, it doesn't look like that really worked either. but on the morning of the third day after we worked on him he got himself up early got himself ready to go to school and got his lunchbox in his backpack he comes downstairs and he says mom i can go back to school now i'm a happy pappy and that's a direct quote and so he did go back to school and he went into the program for advanced kids because he was doing so well and all his learning disabilities were gone and wow and uh that kid i think now is 37 and i think he's you know i don't know how many kids of his own he's got, but his mother told us after that, she said, um, she said, if I had not been open to something so different, she said, my son would not have survived.

1:02:17You know, cause he was so depressed at age nine. Think of that. Yeah. So the heart wall we have found is the single most powerful thing that there is for depression. You see, the thing is, I believe that the best ideas that you'll ever have won't really come from this brain in your head. They'll come from your heart brain, really. And so when people tell you when you graduate from high school or college and they say, follow your heart, right? That's great advice. But what if you have a heart wall? And nine out of 10 people do.

1:02:49Lewis Howes:Yeah, it's hard to follow it then. It makes it much more difficult. It's confusing because then you start following your analytical mind. Why should I be doing this? This is like the thing that's the right thing to do, or as opposed to really following what your heart dreams of doing. Yeah. And I really believe, Lewis, that there's a perfect blueprint that lies within the heart of every single person of the perfect life that they can have and that they can live. But if your heart is surrounded with all these layers of negative emotion, it just makes it so much harder. Wow. Yeah.

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1:05:26Wow. Yes.

1:05:27Lewis Howes:That's cool. Yeah. And all the information's in the books too. We don't hold anything back. You can learn the whole process in the emotion code book. The heart code book is all about the heart wall specifically, you know, um, it's all in there because people need it. They, the world needs this. Do you feel like if someone were to release the emotional baggage trapped around their hearts, they would be able to manifest more of what they want? Well, absolutely. I mean, people can have other emotional baggage, you know, in their body besides that, that's wrapped around their heart. But typically when I was in practice, what I used to do is if somebody had some kind of a fire burning, for example, if, you know, if they really had neck pain or whatever, I take care of that.

1:06:06And then I go right to the heart wall. But, um, but yeah, it, it happens all the time. This is a woman named Joy in London in the UK. She said, the husband of my friend came to me for a session. he didn't want to tell his wife about the heart wall we cleared so i waited to see if my friend noticed any changes she called me the next day saying i don't know what you did but he has been so loving she said that she had never felt more loved in her marriage all the wrinkles on his brow had eased away and he was smiling more she even mentioned a couple of months later that he could thank me for saving their marriage wow that's cool well this is a quote from your your

1:06:48Lewis Howes:book, The Emotion Code, you say those whose hearts are open will be the anchors for that divine energy that will transform and heal the world. Exactly. When we lack the ability to have an open heart, it sounds like we lack the ability to access the divine to transform and heal the world. But when we allow ourselves to have an open heart, which I guess is challenging if you have been hurt emotionally in the past or been let down or been lied to or abandoned or used or abused or taken advantage of. And so many of us have been in one way or another, right? Everyone has been at some point. One of those emotions has happened.

1:07:27Lewis Howes:And usually what happens is we then create a film over our heart, some type of callous, right? That says, okay, I don't want that to happen again. Therefore, I'm going to block that from happening. I'm not going to be as excited. I'm not going to be as emotionally available. I'm not going to be as loving towards people. I'm going to be more questioning. I'm going to be more guarded. I'm going to be more closed off, right? Because I was this and I got hurt, right? I was in a marriage and he cheated on me or she cheated on me or whatever it is. And therefore I'm never, I'm always going to be single the rest of my life.

1:08:00Lewis Howes:It's like a callous, right? Yeah, exactly. And it's hard to access the divine with a calloused heart. It's hard to access abundance with a calloused heart. And it's hard to transform your life and heal others with a calloused heart. So I love that quote from your book, those whose hearts are open will be the anchors for that divine energy that will transform and heal the world. So what does that actually look like day to day for someone to become one of those anchors? Since better than 90 % of people, we think about 93 % of people actually have a heart wall. The most important thing I think first to recognize is that you probably have this phenomenon going on.

1:08:49And, you know, it's interesting because not only does it affect you with your relationships and with your ability to create money in abundance and so on, it also has a huge amount to do with your health. Yes. when I was in practice, the last 10 years that I was in practice, most of the people that I saw had been told there was really no hope for them in Western medicine at all. And yet the vast majority of them, with just a couple of exceptions, were able to get well. Why? Well, because I was asking questions other people weren't asking. And also because I knew about this heart wall phenomenon.

1:09:24And sometimes, well, every one of these patients would get a typical Western medicine an exam, but they would also get another exam where I would check the balance of all the organs energetically, all the glands, all the chakras, all the meridians. And it wasn't unusual for these people who were so sick to find that all the organs and all the glands were out of balance and many of the chakras and meridians. And I would write all that down. And then sometimes with these people, I would just do one thing. I would just remove that emotional energy that had wrapped up and built around their heart.

1:09:57And then I would redo that exam, Lewis. And inevitably, every time I did that, I would find that 80 % of all those organs and glands were humming away again, balanced perfectly. And the meridians and chakras too. And I found that it was the single most powerful thing that I could do for a person to help them to get well. We're living in the age of the heart now. And we finally have this knowledge. This heart wall is a real thing. I never in my wildest dreams would have imagined this goes on, that the subconscious mind builds a wall. And the funny thing about it too, is that it will always have some symbolic material that it's quote unquote made out of.

1:10:35And so it's often building materials like, you know, like concrete or, you know, why is that? It's not made of any material.

1:10:43Lewis Howes:It's just an energetic field. It's just an, well, yeah, but I think to the subconscious mind, And I think that it understands that you can't have a wall made out of nothing. And so it'll choose something. And it's interesting. It'll interpret it as something. Yeah. Yeah. It's a symbolic sort of a thing. And we talk about it in the heart code. It's just an incidental sort of thing. But it's interesting because some people will have a heart wall that's made of one-way mirror. So they can see out, but nobody can see in. Oh, man. You know? I mean, we've seen all kinds of crazy things. Now, I want to ask you about beliefs really quick because you talk about these different codes, emotion codes, body codes, and belief codes.

1:11:21Lewis Howes:If you were only able to give one prescription for someone listening or watching right now, from all the experience you have from being a doctor to doing the energy healing work that you do now, and you could only prescribe people with one belief, what would you prescribe people to believe most? I think probably the most powerful belief that a person can have is a belief in the higher power, but that that higher power loves them without limit. You know, to believe that God or the creator, source energy, or however you refer to it, has perfect love for you that fills the immensity of space itself.

1:12:09I think that's the most powerful belief you could have. Because then I think you would feel that you could do anything because you've got the backing of the supreme creator of the universe, right?

1:12:22Lewis Howes:If people watching or listening don't have a belief in God and they don't have a belief that God truly loves them and wants them to be unlimited in their abilities, what would you say to them? And what do you think is holding them back if they aren't at least curious to believe that? You know, we all come into this world and I had an experience one day. I was 18 years old and I was just sitting meditating very quietly. And all of a sudden I had this experience that I'll, that I'll try to describe. First, I believe that before we come into this world, we live with God in this place of indescribable beauty and high vibration and unconditional love and everything.

1:13:07Right. And then we come into this world for these specific reasons, right. To, to learn and to make choices and, you know, learn from our choices, et cetera. But when we come into this world, there is a shield put over us, or you might call it a veil. It's like the veil of memory. I talk about it a little bit. And I talk about this experience actually in the Emotion Code book, where our memories of where we were before are blocked off to us. We can't access them anymore, right? All we know is here we are, right? And this is all we know and all we've ever known. But we've been alive, I believe, forever before we come here.

1:13:43And so I'm sitting one day, 18 years old, just quietly meditating. And all of a sudden it's like this window opens somehow. And suddenly every particle, my being is filled with the most overwhelmingly powerful feeling of homesickness that I can't describe completely off the chart to be back where I was before I came here, right? To be back where we all were. And this lasted for about three seconds. It was like this window opened and then it closed and it just left me reeling. And I realized from that experience, a couple of things. I realized that we really truly are strangers here just passing through because we come from somewhere that is William Wordsworth said, he said, trailing clouds of glory, do we come into this world from God who is our home?

1:14:40And, and I realized that that we're strangers here, but I also realized that it's a good thing that we have that block on our memories, because if we didn't have that, I realized we would not be able to tolerate it here in this world for five minutes. We want to go back or go beyond whatever. Yeah. Yeah. So, you know, I've had some some very interesting experiences and I I some very powerful spiritual experiences. And I know that God lives, that he loves us beyond our ability to understand. I had an experience at Disneyland once that I talk about in the Body Code book where one day I took some of some of our kids to Disneyland and I didn't really want to go that bad.

1:15:23But I took them, you know, trying to be a good dad. Right. And so I got him in line for a ride. And then I'm kind of walking around and just kind of in this pensive sort of state, not having really anything specific to do. And I'm noticing people. And, you know, you've been to Disneyland. There's all kinds of people from all over the world and all shapes and sizes and colors and everything else. And I remember thinking to myself, you know, I'm sure these are all really nice people, but they don't really mean anything to me. I don't love these people. And I thought, I wonder what it's like for God, our father in heaven.

1:15:53And I wonder what it's like for him, because, you know, it says that he loves everybody. Right. And we're all his children. He must love all of us. What would that be like? And so I said this prayer and I said, you know, help me to understand what that's like for you. You know, God. And I didn't get an answer. And I kind of just mentally shrugged my shoulders and went home. Right. So when I got home, our two younger boys were absolutely just in shock. And I couldn't believe I didn't take them to Disneyland. Right. and they were a little younger, you know, like eight and six and I should have taken them.

1:16:26I don't know what happened. But anyway, they badgered me relentlessly and I finally said, all right, fine. If you've ever been harassed and brutalized by kids, that's how that went. So I, so the next Saturday I find myself back at Disneyland again and I get them in line for a ride and, uh, and I go for a walk and I find myself kind of falling into the same thoughts from the week before. And I'm on this bridge at California Adventure, walking over this bridge. And I'm noticing these people, and I have this thought. And the thought was, I wonder what it's like for our Father in Heaven, who loves everybody.

1:17:06And all of a sudden, the prayer from the week before was answered. And I'll try to describe this, because it's kind of indescribable. But all of a sudden I was filled with this unconditional, perfect love for all these people on this bridge. And I looked at my ride and there was a ride over there with probably 200 people in line for this ride. And I have this unconditional love, this perfect love for all these people in this line. And this was so far outside of my realm of experience, right? And so far outside of my box that I suddenly felt panic and instantly it was gone. just instantly shut off.

1:17:48I had that experience. I know that we have no idea how much we're loved. And that's the truth of our existence is that we are so loved. That's beautiful.

1:17:59Lewis Howes:I've got a couple of final questions for you, Brad. This has been powerful. And I want people to check out all your work. You have the emotion code, the heart code, the body code. And if people go to discoverhealing.com slash greatness, they can learn more about the emotion code. And I think there's another link you said, something emotion code now motion code now to dot com as well you can go through a quiz or a test that you can learn yeah we got lots of information there about the books you can book a session with somebody um we've got the little course there that you can take where you can learn how to release we'll walk you through releasing your first trapped emotion that's cool yeah that's cool so everyone go there and check that out if you feel like you need to release something which most of us do yeah i think so there's a question called the three truths that i ask everyone towards the end.

1:18:44Lewis Howes:So imagine hypothetically, you get to live as long as you want in this world, but it's your last day. And you continue to create and serve and heal people and add value in the ways you want to. But for whatever reason on the last day, you have to take all of your work with you. This conversation, all of your books, everything you've ever put out there goes to the next place. But on the last day, you get to leave behind three lessons to the world. And that's all we would have of your content left once you leave. What would those three truths be for you? That God is real, that he lives, that he loves us all beyond our ability to understand.

1:19:22And that the most important thing that you can do in this life is to learn how to love other people unconditionally. That's hard for a lot of people. Yeah, it is. Well, it's not meant to be easy, I don't think. Yeah. But you know what's interesting is that as people release their emotional baggage, they become more capable of that love. In fact, we've had multiple people over many years tell us that when that heart wall is taken down, they can feel the love of the creator for them.

1:19:55Lewis Howes:That's beautiful. I want to acknowledge you, Brad, for the journey you've been on, because it's been 22 years since you left your practice to explore how to bring more healing to more people. and I acknowledge you for going on that journey because probably 22 years ago, it wasn't popular to leave something that you had committed to your whole life, essentially to being known as one thing in chiropractic and then going into this field of energy healing. So I want to acknowledge you for the journey that you've been on and the journey you'll continue to help people release trapped emotions and feel more free and feel more loved because that's what we all need more of.

1:20:38Lewis Howes:So thank you for that. Yeah. And that's really kind of course. And I want people to get your, your books, the emotion code, the heart code, the body code, or whichever one speaks to you. Uh, and if you feel you're having some type of trapped emotion, make sure to check this out because it can really help you release those emotions so you can create more freedom in your life. And I believe when we have more freedom, we can reach our fullest potential and hopefully just be kinder to the people around us. And I think that's a big goal for a lot of people. So my final question for you, Brad, is what's your definition of greatness?

1:21:12I heard one time the definition of spirituality is consciousness of victory over self and communion with the infinite. That's powerful. And I've always loved that, you know, because everybody has this perfect blueprint within them and because it's different for everyone. but yet we all form this perfect mosaic i mean imagine if everybody in the world could have an open heart and could be manifesting into the world the perfect blueprint that's within them imagine what a world it could be and i believe that's the world that's coming and so to me i think that greatness is is simply because it's different for everyone i think that greatness is really just creating and manifesting that perfect blueprint that lies within your heart.

1:22:04What is it for you? It's different than mine and it's different from the next person, different for everybody. But if you can manifest that perfect blueprint that lies inside of you, you've achieved your own greatness. That's what I think. Brad, thank you so much for being here. I appreciate it.

1:22:21Lewis Howes:Powerful. Thank you, Louis. Appreciate it. My friend, I hope you're enjoying this episode right now because we are on a mission to impact a hundred million lives every single week. And every follow here on this podcast helps us reach more people. Make sure to hit the follow at the top of this show's page right now. It's the single biggest thing that you can do to support the show and the impact of us reaching you every single time we have new episodes. I appreciate you and I can't wait to see you in the next episode. I hope you enjoyed today's episode and it inspired you on your journey towards greatness.

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