What are trapped emotions?

A trapped emotion is like a butterfly caught in a jar — it wasn’t meant to stay there.

Release it, and you create space for your own healing to take flight.

Every emotion we experience carries an energetic frequency. When we allow those emotions to move through us, they complete their cycle and leave the body naturally. But when an emotion is suppressed, unprocessed or too overwhelming to face in the moment, it can become “trapped” in the body — stored as energy in our organs, tissues, mind and subconscious.

These trapped emotions don’t stay silent. They influence how we feel, think and behave in ways we often don’t understand.

This is the foundation of Emotional Energy Healing, and one of the core reasons why modalities like the Emotion Code, Body Code, and Belief Code are so transformative.

How Emotions Become Trapped in the Body

Life moves quickly, and many of us were never taught how to process emotions in healthy ways. Instead, we push them down because:

• we’re overwhelmed

• we’re trying to stay strong

• we don’t want to burden others

• we’re afraid of what the emotion might reveal

• the timing felt “wrong” to express it

But emotional energy doesn’t vanish. It stays, waiting for us to pay attention. Sometimes for years.

Trapped emotions can form during:

• childhood experiences

• heartbreak

• sudden fear or shock

• grief and loss

• stressful life transitions

• moments we felt unsafe emotionally

Without realising it, these stored emotions begin shaping our beliefs, reactions and physical health.

How Trapped Emotions Affect Your Mind and Body

Trapped emotions can influence:

• anxiety or persistent worry

• low self-worth

• difficulty trusting

• unexplained sadness

• self-sabotaging patterns

• relationship struggles

• creative blocks

• burnout or emotional numbness

Physically, trapped emotions can create:

• tightness in the chest

• knots or tension in the stomach

• headaches

• fatigue

• insomnia

• muscle aches

These sensations are the body’s way of communicating that something needs attention.

How Emotional Healing Frees Trapped Emotions

The Emotion Code, developed by Dr Bradley Nelson, identifies and releases trapped emotional energy using muscle testing and the body’s subconscious intelligence.The Body Code goes deeper — examining energetic, physical and structural imbalances.The Belief Code rewires limiting belief systems that formed around trapped emotions.

Together, these modalities create a pathway to:

• emotional clarity

• greater self-understanding

• inner calm

• restored energy flow

• physical relief

Clients often describe feeling “lighter” immediately after a session — as though a weight has lifted from their mind and body.

Why Releasing Trapped Emotions Matters

When we free emotional energy trapped in the body, life begins to shift:

✓ Relationships become healthier

✓ Anxiety softens

✓ Creativity returns

✓ Patterns break

✓ Physical tension releases

✓ The mind becomes clearer

✓ Self-connection deepens

Releasing trapped emotions doesn’t erase your past — it frees you from carrying it.

If you’re curious to explore emotional healing online or through email distance sessions, you’re invited to begin your journey here at Eyes on Emotions. Healing begins the moment you decide to look within.