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Drop Emotional Baggage and Smash Through Mental Blocks with Dr. Bradley Nelson

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Did you know that your heart has a brain?

In fact, there are more connections running from the heart to the brain than from the brain to the heart! (Think about that for a second.)

We've all heard the expression "dying of a broken heart." It may sound hard to believe, but the phenomenon is quite real.

Unresolved emotions like grief, anger, or fear can quietly build pressure in the body and contribute to issues like high blood pressure, heart rhythm problems, and worse.

The hidden strain of emotional pains of the past affect the physical health of the heart, taking a toll over a lifetime of real and imagined stressors.

Your emotional health is a direct input into your physical health.

So before you ignore your body and reflexively say "I'm fine," now is a good time to take a deep breath, check in with yourself for a moment and ask, "how do I feel in my heart?"

When we're hurt physically or emotionally, our body and nervous system naturally engage guarding mechanisms. In the wild, injured animals withdraw from socializing and normal tasks and hide until they're healed.

But in humans, the fight, flight, and freeze response can go haywire.  Our fragile nervous systems face a constant barrage of unnatural, overstimulating modern stressors that eat away at our health, vitality, and sanity.

When natural healing processes are interrupted, we can develop subconscious maladaptive patterns of avoidance, isolation, and lack of connection.

This incomplete healing can feel like you're not fully alive or not fully present, yet also completely overwhelmed. (After getting my bell rung pretty good recently in a hit-and-run car wreck, I can say I've been there myself.)

After a lifetime of struggles, you might not feel not quite so free, open, and alive as a child chasing butterflies in the backyard.

So how can you create the life you dream about when your energy is being drained by the emotional baggage?

How can we build profound connections with people we care about if our hearts are shuttered behind protective defensive emotions?

The paradox is that pain and struggle actually shape us into the people we're meant to become. Some even call it the human condition. This week's guest offers that our trials may even serve a divine purpose.

No matter what life has in store for us, the good news is that the human body has a remarkable (and often miraculous) ability to heal. This week's guest has helped millions of souls across the world do just that.

Dr. Bradley Nelson is a renowned Holistic Physician, father of 8, husband of 44 years, bestselling author of multiple books including his latest The Heart Code, and a visionary thought leader in root cause healing and personal transformation. 

He's here to help us drop the emotional baggage and smash through the mental blocks that prevent you from living your best life.

In this episode with Dr. Nelson, you'll discover:
  • How to identify and drop maladaptive subconscious patterns
  • How clearing trapped emotions restores our body’s natural healing intelligence
  • Why trapped emotions create patterns of limitation that seem impossible to break (and what to do about it)
  • How to show up unguarded and authentic, feeling fully alive
  • And more...
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Transcript

Abel JamesAbel James

Hey, folks. This is Abel James, and thanks so much for joining us on the show. Did you know that the heart has a brain? In fact, there are more connections running from your heart to your brain than from your brain to your heart. Think about that for a second. We've all heard the expression dying of a broken heart. It may sound hard to believe, but the phenomenon is quite real. Your emotional health is a direct input into your physical health.

Unresolved emotions like grief, anger, or fear can quietly build pressure in the body and contribute to issues like high blood pressure, heart rhythm problems, and worse. The hidden strain of emotional pains of the past affect the physical health of the heart taking a toll over a lifetime of stressors that are real and imagined.

So before you ignore your body and reflexively say, I'm fine, like I usually do, now is a good time to take a deep breath, check-in with yourself for a quick moment and ask, how do I feel in my heart? When we're hurt physically or emotionally, our body and nervous system naturally engage in guarding mechanisms. In the wild, injured animals withdraw from socializing in normal tasks and just hide until they're healed. But in humans, the fight, flight, or freeze response can go haywire.

Our fragile nervous systems face a constant barrage of unnatural overstimulating modern stressors that eat away at our health vitality and sanity. When natural healing processes are interrupted, we can develop subconscious maladaptive patterns of avoidance, isolation, and lack of connection. This incomplete healing can feel like you're not fully alive or not fully present yet also completely overwhelmed.

After getting my bell rung pretty good recently in a hit and run car wreck, I can tell you I've been there myself. After a lifetime of struggles, loss, and heartbreak, you might not often feel quite so free, open, and alive as a child chasing butterflies in the backyard. But how can you create the life you dream about when your energy is being drained by all this emotional baggage?

How can we build profound connections with people we care about if our hearts are shuttered behind protective defensive emotions?

The paradox is that pain and struggle actually shape us into the people that we're meant to become. Some even call it the human condition, and this week's guest offers that our trials may even serve a divine purpose. No matter what life has in store for us, the good news is that the human body has a remarkable and even miraculous ability to heal, and this week's guest has helped millions of people across the globe. Doctor Bradley Nelson is a father of eight, husband of forty four years, best selling author, and visionary thought leader in root cause healing and personal transformation.

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Look forward to seeing you there. Alright. In this episode with doctor Nelson, you're about to discover how to identify and drop maladaptive subconscious patterns, how clearing trapped emotions restores our body's natural healing intelligence, why trapped emotions create patterns of limitation that seem impossible to break, how to show up unguarded and authentic feeling fully alive, and much much more. Let's go meet Doctor. Nelson. Back folks.

Veteran holistic physician Doctor. Bradley Nelson is one of the world's foremost experts on natural methods of achieving wellness. His newest book is entitled The Heart Code. Thanks so much for joining me on the show, Doctor. Nelson. Well, thank you, Abel. Great to be here.

So let's go deep right away. This is one thing that a lot of people, especially I think in America, don't think about very often, but how do unresolved emotions actually affect the literal physical health of the heart over time?

Dr. Bradley Nelson

Well, it's very interesting. You know, the very first experience that I had with this kind of thing was many years ago. I mean, I've been doing this, I've been a holistic physician for about thirty seven years, and this was probably about thirty five years ago. There was a woman that came into my office and, she'd been a patient, I'd seen her before, but it had been a couple of months and all of a sudden she walks into the office and she's very upset, very concerned.

She feels like she's having a heart attack. She's got crushing chest pain, difficulty breathing. Her left arm is completely numb. She says left side of her face, totally numb. And, so it looks like a heart attack to me too. Well, luckily our office was very close to almost right next door to a medical center. And I told my staff, look, we might need an ambulance. Hang on. Give me one minute with her. And, so I did some testing with her.

We teach all of this testing in the emotion code, body code, heart code, everything else. And what I found really quickly from her subconscious mind was that, she had a trapped emotion or an emotional energy that was contributing to this, these symptoms that she was having. And, so I needed to know a little more about this. And within about a minute arrived at, she had an emotion of grief and, it had actually become trapped in her body three years before.

And when I arrived at that, she burst into tears and she's crying and she's saying, I can't believe that's affecting me still. I thought I dealt with all that. And I said, well, what happened? And she said three years before she found out that her husband, was having an affair and she confronted him with the evidence and the marriage blew up and pretty quickly it was all over and it was, very difficult for her. She was really deeply in love with this guy. And,

so it really kind of broke her heart. And so after the divorce is over, she spent about a year in therapy, dealing with it mentally, and then had even gotten remarried. So as far as she was concerned, it was ancient history, it was just, it was her past, a difficult episode, a big bump in the road, he was just her ex, and she didn't even like to think about him, but as far as her body was concerned, that grief that she experienced was still with her, and when I released that emotional energy,

believe it or not, the feeling came back into her arm and into her face within about three seconds, and the chest pain, the difficulty breathing was gone, And, she left the office about ten minutes later after joking with me and my staff feeling fine. And, and I remember after she left sitting down at my desk and thinking, wow, what in the world was that? How can an emotional energy cause that kind of physical symptom that,

for all practical appearances, looked like a heart attack? Well, after that, you know, not exactly sure how many years, probably ten years or so after that, I guess the Japanese discovered something that they called Takatsuba syndrome, where women, especially age 55 or over, who are experiencing an acute emotional situation, will actually go through a peculiar kind of heart failure, where the left ventricle of the heart suddenly just gives up and balloons, and the heart, on an x-ray,

takes on a new appearance. It actually takes on the appearance of what the Japanese call a takotsubo, which is a fisherman's jar. It's a bell shaped jar, and the heart really does look almost exactly like one of these jars. It's the jars that the Japanese fishermen used to catch octopus. And, and the heart is literally failing. So I think that this woman, and I'm still in touch with her. That was many years ago, but she has a horse ranch in Oregon.

She's really never had any other trouble, but I think that if we had not released that emotional energy, very likely she would have died of a heart attack, she was exhibiting

full blown symptoms of a heart attack at that point, and you definitely can die from a broken heart. In the Western world, in English, we refer to it as cardiac syndrome, but the emotional energy you see of her husband's affair and how she experienced that and the intense energy of that that became trapped in her body, I think would probably have killed her.

At the funeral, maybe ten, fifteen, twenty years after the experience I had with her at the funeral, nobody would have known, or nobody would have realized that what really killed her was her husband's affair, but that's kind of the hidden aspect of our lives, These experiences that we have, these intense emotions that we experience often end up manifesting years down the road as physical and mental and emotional symptoms, and to understand how they can cause symptoms, you have to understand

that these bodies that we inhabit, even though to us they seem very solid, and to us these bodies are made of skin and muscle and bone and nervous system tissue, and we have organs and glands and everything else. It's all very physical, but, the reality is these bodies are made of energy. Our bodies are pure energy. If you ask any physicist,

they'll tell you. Yeah, that's true. You know, if you magnify some part of your body under a big enough microscope to the point that you're looking at a single individual atom, what would you notice? Well, you'd notice the next item is a long distance away. And if you look in that atom that you're face to face with you, see, there's nothing really in there. It's just empty space and just some pure energy.

And that's all we are. In fact, this is to say that if you could remove all the empty space from between all the atoms and everyone's body on earth, you could fit all 8,000,000,000 people in the world into a box the size of a sugar cube, which is impossible for us to wrap our heads around, but nevertheless, that is the reality of our existence. These bodies of ours are force fields more than anything else, So when we experience an emotion, we're experiencing a certain vibration of energy.

In other words, if a person is experiencing an intense emotion, say, of anger, and if you could, if you could measure the energy field, the quantum field of their body with some kind of a,

some kind of a device, you'd see that their whole being is vibrating at the frequency of anger. Every emotion has a frequency. Tesla said, if wanna understand the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration, right? And so if that person's feeling an intense emotion of grief, that would be a different frequency, and so what happens is when these emotions are being felt, what we're really feeling is a certain frequency of energy, a certain vibration,

and sometimes we don't wanna feel those emotions, and so we bury them, we stuff them and move on, and that leaves an open loop, it leaves an emotional experience that was really not completed. Sometimes emotions are just overwhelming, sometimes emotionally overwhelming things happen to us, That also will leave emotional energy. That's kind of trapped in the body. Sometimes, we have emotions come up that we feel justified and really blowing up and making huge.

Usually those are the times when afterward, you know, we say to ourselves, gee, I gotta get in better control of my emotions, I really kind of went off the handle there, right? But those experiences all can result in this emotional energy that becomes trapped in the body, and we call those trapped emotions, and how a trapped emotion affects us is a trapped emotion, we have found, is a ball of energy from about the size of a baseball, about the size of a softball.

These will lodge in the body, they can lodge literally anywhere, and then they exert this distorting effect on the energy field of the body, and when you distort the energy field of the body, well, you're ultimately affecting and distorting the body itself, and so what we find is that when you have a trapped emotion, wherever it's lodged in the body, the chemical reactions taking place within that little sphere of energy are a little bit off.

The blood flow's a little bit off, lymph flow's a little bit off, the flow of acupuncture meridian energy through that area is also a little bit off, and so this is the reason why one of the most common symptoms of emotional energies like this is actually physical pain. We find that physical pain, ninety percent of the time has an emotional cause. And if you find the emotions or emotions that are distorting the energy field in that area and you release those, the pain goes away.

It's, it's really, quite astonishing. And that's why I left practice in 2004 to write this book, motion code, this information had to get out to the world. So that's kind of a nutshell of how these things can affect us physically. They do, in very big ways.

Abel JamesAbel James

And it's a bit pernicious, isn't it that our subconscious kind of holds on to these things, these unresolved emotions, running in loops, but our conscious mind has has long ago forgotten them. So all of a sudden, years later, decades later, some of these enormous problems can just bubble up, it seems out of nowhere, but that's not exactly what's happening.

Dr. Bradley Nelson

Well, you know, it's, it's interesting. I was a computer programmer, my first and only class actually in 1980. So during the early eighties, I had a business called the computer tutor. And it was a fascinating time because there was no software that existed for these personal computers. I'd go into businesses and I would write the software so they could get some use out of their new IBM PC.

It was really a wonderful time, really loved it, but I learned a lot about logic, and when I got into practice, it began to dawn on me that with every single patient, I was actually dealing with a computer, that there was a computer within them, but it was unlike any computer that I had ever experienced, the computer within each one of us is incomprehensibly advanced and powerful, because I believe really that we all have a divine origin, and that's why it's

something, it's an intelligence that's beyond our ability to comprehend. It knows what's going on with our bodies, with a perfect understanding. It knows exactly why a person is having symptoms, why a person has developed cancer, why a person can't seem to get well, why a person can't find their soulmate or make as much money as they'd like to, or develop their abilities.

So I found some ways to communicate with the subconscious mind, and some of those had actually been developed by other people, you know, over many years, but I was able to develop it to this really advanced degree.

So I've written these three books so far, The Emotion Code, The Body Code, and The Heart Code, and if I were to encapsulate the central theme behind all of these books, it is that each one of us has this internal computer that has all the answers about what's really wrong with us and what we need to maximize our health, and our abundance and our, the amount of love we have in our lives in every way. And it's that information is there for the asking.

And so these, these books are kind of like the Rosetta stone for, the subconscious mind. So, many, many years ago, was a computer programmer, no programming IBM PCs, and in practice, learned that, gee, there's a computer inside of us. It's a different kind of computer. It's a binary computer in terms of, in terms of its interface, so we can ask questions and the subconscious mind will give, answers very, very easily.

Abel JamesAbel James

And one of the ways that you test that or communicate with that is with the sway test, for example, right? Could you explain that and some other ways that we can check-in with our subconscious and see what's going on? Yes, absolutely. So

Dr. Bradley Nelson

So the sway test is probably the simplest, easiest way to get answers. It's the first method that we teach in these books, and it's based on the idea it's based on the idea that that the body will respond automatically to positive or negative input. In the same way that if you put a plant in a pot, and you put it near a window, the plant is gonna eventually grow towards the light coming in from the window, that's a positive input for the plant.

And if you don't rotate the plant periodically, the plant's gonna be permanently bent in that position. Well, our bodies, are very complex organisms, more complex really than a plant, but we have that same innate ability that if you're standing very relaxed,

and you've got, in fact, maybe we should we do an exercise and walk people through this? Yeah, that'd be great. I think that might be kind of fun. So if you can just stand up, you know, if you're driving or something, just do this when you get home, but it's really easy. Just stand up, drop your hands down by your sides and, put your feet about shoulder width apart and just totally relax. Take a deep breath. Let it out.

All right. Now, as you're standing there, after a bit, you'll probably notice that it's not really possible to stand perfectly still. And I don't want you to even try to stand perfectly still, just stand there and be totally relaxed. There's always a little bit of movement going on, maybe a little bit to the left or right or forward or backward or at some angle, and that's just because your postural muscles are constantly working to try to keep you from falling over.

Now, what I'd like you to do is I'd like you to think about something. We'll start with something really negative, okay? Let's start with war. Now, that's a word that we all hear every day, pretty much all of our lives, right? But what I'd like you to do for a moment, as you're standing there, totally relaxed, arms down by your sides, eyes closed, think about what that really means. Imagine trying to explain to someone from another planet, for example, where war does not exist.

Try to explain to that person. Imagine explaining what we do when there's a war going on. What are people wearing one uniform doing to other people wearing another uniform?

It's essentially legalized murder, isn't it? And I'd like you to think about that for a minute. Think about all the tears that have been shed over all the wars that have been fought over all of these years, think about all the villages destroyed, and all the families destroyed, all the children who lost a father or a mother or both, parents who lost children, just think of all the sadness and grief that has been generated by all these wars that have been fought.

As you're thinking about those thoughts of war, if you allow your subconscious mind to do it, within about three to ten seconds, if you're holding those thoughts, the subconscious mind will pick up on what you're consciously thinking about, and in that moment, your subconscious mind will start to move your body, and you'll notice that you're starting to sway backward, your body's starting to move backward, away from those thoughts.

Those thoughts are perceived as kind of essentially being in front of you, and you'll tend to move backwards. Now, or sway backward. Now,

let's shift gears here for a minute. Let's leave those thoughts of war behind, and now I'd like you to imagine that you're surrounded with unconditional love, and I'd like you to imagine, imagine that you're living in the future, that a thousand years have gone by, and now you're living in this place of unconditional love where you're surrounded with unconditional love all the time, and where you have changed and you have become a being of unconditional love, and

the love that fills your heart for all creation is so big that your heart cannot even contain that love, and that love expands out from your heart and it goes out into the world, it fills every crack and crevice in the world, and there's more to spare, and that love of yours just keeps going, goes out and fills the solar system, and imagine that love that's emanating from your center, going out and filling the immensity of space. Hold that thought for moment. Imagine what would that feel like?

What would that feel like to be that ascended of a being, to be a vessel of unconditional love? And as you think about that, if you hold that thought, within about three to ten seconds, your body will sway forward, and I know a lot of your viewers and listeners are right on their tiptoes, because I believe that is absolutely a potential future for us, and the deep part of us, deep within our hearts, we know that.

And so when we talk about that kind of destiny, we sway forward because our subconscious mind says, yeah, that's right, and I wanna go there. So this is how we can, this is the sway test. Now,

I just did this exercise to show you the subconscious mind will have an effect on your conscious mind if you let it. It's a subtle kind of a thing. If you're too much in control of things, then you might not have felt a sway forward or backward, but if you allow the subconscious mind to have a little control, then it will work for you, and what you can also do with this method is you can ask questions.

For example, here's a question you can ask. So, again, stand there, feet shoulder width apart, arms down by your sides, relax, take a deep breath, let it out, and now ask this question, of your own subconscious mind, that inner mind. Do I have a trapped emotion? Do I have a trapped emotion? In other words, do I have emotional baggage? Do I have emotional baggage?

And hold that thought, hold that question in your mind, keep posing that question, and within three to ten seconds, your body will sway forward for yes, backward for no. Now, it's an interesting thing, you have to kind of, it does take a little bit of focus, which is harder to come by in the world that we live in now, because of course everybody's so distracted,

but the subconscious mind, if you allow it to, will give you yeses and noes. Now this is the simplest way that most people immediately can begin to ask questions of their own internal computer, the most powerful computer in the universe that we know of, way more powerful, believe than chat GPT or Google, but it's like, we have our own little chat GPT, our own little Google inside of us that gives us answers if we know how to ask.

And so, if you got a no answer on, do I have emotional baggage or a trapped emotion, you might wanna ask this next question, and this question is, do I have a heart wall? Pose that question to your subconscious mind. Do I have a heart wall? And I'll explain what it is in a minute, your subconscious mind already knows exactly what it is. So do I have a heart wall? Ask that question,

and then allow your subconscious mind, as you stay focused on that question, do I have a heart wall? Allow your subconscious mind to either move you forward, let it do whatever it wants, allow it to move you forward for a yes or backward for a no, I'll explain what a heart wall is if you want.

Abel JamesAbel James

Please do, we're on the edge of our toes, especially the ones with heart walls. Yeah, I can't leave you hanging there.

Dr. Bradley Nelson

Let me tell you what happened. First of all, there were times when I was in practice when as I'm working with people and clearing their emotional baggage, there were times when I would come away from working on a patient, and I would just have this kind of nagging feeling that there was something that I was unable to access, that there was emotional baggage that my patients had that was not available to me for some reason, and I didn't really know what the answer was, didn't really know

what to do about that, but that was something that I periodically would, it's a feeling that I would have. Well, in 1998, my wife and I were at a conference on magnetic healing, and I was one of the speakers at this conference, and she woke me up early on the morning of this conference day, and she said that she had had a dream, and there were some symbols in her dream, and she asked me if I would help her decipher this dream. So I said, okay.

So I'm working to help her figure out what these symbols were, and in the middle of this, all of a sudden, I had one of the most remarkable, amazing experiences of my whole life. I had what I can only describe as a waking vision, where the room that I was in, very nice hotel room, all of a sudden, that's not even there anymore. Instead, I'm seeing this incredibly beautiful hardwood floor, and this lasted for several minutes, and I mean, this was in, you know,

high def, right? It was just the most uncanny, amazing thing, but it wasn't frightening or anything. I was totally calm through this. This lasted for several minutes. And as I'm seeing this floor, I have this understanding that comes into my mind that my wife's heart is underneath this floor. I had absolutely no idea what I was understanding and seeing. And I told her what was going on. She had no idea either.

So, we asked for some help from up above. Then we started doing some muscle testing on my wife, that's another way to get answers from the subconscious mind, and I thought that would make sense because this, you know, we were working on her when this happened, so this has gotta be coming out of her subconscious mind or something, And so what we found was that when she was two years old, she began putting up a wall around her heart.

She was born into a very volatile family, her dad was kind of a rage aholic, And so they were, all the kids were walking on eggshells all the time, big family, nine kids, and nobody knew when dad was going to blow up or at who. Right. So it was very scary. And around age two, she began to put up a wall around her heart. And what we found was that wall, the symbolic material for which was hardwood,

okay? The subconscious mind will always choose a symbolic material for the heart wall to be made out of. And, this had to be shown to me because I don't have this kind of an imagination. Never would have possibly imagined that this kind of thing goes on, but it does anyway. So, as life went on, and more traumatic things happened, she built up more and more layers.

The price that she paid for having this energy wall, almost like a force field around her heart, was that it was difficult for her to feel positive emotions, easy to feel negative emotions. She battled with depression and anxiety, and she always felt kind of isolated, even with women that she had known since she was a girl, she never really felt like she belonged. She always felt like she was kind of the odd person out, like she was kind of expendable, didn't really belong anywhere.

Well, we asked if we could remove this wall, and we were able to remove one emotional layer at a time, and it took us, actually took us a couple of weeks, it's faster now, but, after a couple of weeks, the last emotion was removed, and she had an immediate shift, and suddenly felt like she belonged with friends, suddenly became much more easy, well, she became much easier for her to feel positive emotions, and the depression and the anxiety began to melt away.

Well, I remember thinking in the very beginning, my wife and I have been married for forty four years, and I've joked, you know, with her that she's kind of been my guinea pig, She's had a lot of different things that I've learned from, right? And I thought, okay, well, is really wild and far out, and she's probably the only person in the world that has this.

But little did we know that about ninety three percent of people have put up this wall around their heart, and it's an unconscious creation. You don't know that you put up a wall, but you probably have. See, the odds are good that you've put one up. And so one of the very next people that I saw was actually a nurse that came to see me.

She had neck pain, about a nine on a zero to 10 scale, and as I was talking with her, she told me that she she was 38 years old, she had not dated in eight years, she was never gonna date again, ever, she was gonna die single. And I said, gee, why do you feel that way? And she said that eight years before, she was really deeply in love with this guy that dumped her and broke her heart, that was it, the pain was too great, she could never be in another relationship.

So I tested her and found that her subconscious mind had put up this wall. There were three emotional layers, three different emotions that became trapped in her body that formed into this wall, this force field, this energy wall around her heart. So I cleared those three emotions, and when I cleared the last one, by the way, they all had to do with the breakup from eight years before. When I cleared the last one, suddenly the neck pain was gone. It went from a nine to a zero instantly,

and she was ecstatic. That's why she'd come in, right? Well, left the office very happy, didn't come back for three months, and I always remember seeing her in my hallway, and I remembered her immediately, and I said, Hey, how are you? What's going on? She said, You know, my neck's been fine, so I was here, but, she said,

that heart wall thing really works. She said, about two weeks after I was here, I found out my childhood sweetheart has 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 gonna ask me to marry him, right? And I thought, wait, aren't you single forever? Big shift, right? And so this is not unusual.

When this wall is taken down, you see, when we fall in love, if we're talking about falling in love for a minute, that doesn't happen with the brain in your head, it happens with the brain in your heart, but if there's a big wall around your heart, it becomes much more difficult, And when that wall is taken down, then, it becomes much easier for things to flow. Now in the heart code book, we have, we have lots of different experiences from people, about falling in love.

A woman named Veronica from London wrote, she said, since my heart was released, I was able to form a loving relationship. I met my partner within one month. This kind of thing happens, know, and another one, Lauren from Minnesota said, Soon after you released my heart while I was able to leave an unhealthy long term relationship.

This opened my eyes to many opportunities in life. A couple of months later, I found the love of my life, traveled to destinations I never thought I'd traveled to, and now I'm furthering my education to enhance my career. My life is so much better because of your work.

And there's lots of these, you know, the hardest thing about writing this book was sifting through over 10,000 stories that people had submitted from all over the world to pick the ones that were, that were gonna, you know, make it into the book, and there's just so many great stories.

Abel JamesAbel James

And it's not just something that you experienced yourself, but you're also kind of transmitting

this as a as a language or a signal to other people. Right? So these unresolved issues, this kind of emotional baggage is is displayed to people not only in your inflection language, but the way your eyes squint and and how you just like all of these infinite amounts of tiny little things that can shift energetically, right, once they're allowed to be natural again, instead of kind of contorted in this artificial stance, an artificial position that's trying to protect us, right? Well,

Dr. Bradley Nelson

yes, absolutely right. And there's also this, because everything is energy, and these thoughts of ours radiate out from us, right, when the heart is open, then that pure essence of who we are goes out into the world. In fact, let me tell you another story, One of my favorite stories, one of our practitioners told us this story a few years ago, she said that some,

one day her sister called her. Now her sister had been divorced for about nine years, but had never really had any work done, no emotion code or anything, and so one day she calls up her sister, who's one of our practitioners. And she said, listen, sis, it's been nine years now. I'm tired of being alone. I'm not getting any younger. I need to find somebody and I don't want to spend the rest of my life alone. So will you come over and work on me? See if I have some emotional baggage.

So, the two of them got together and sure enough, she had a heart wall, which a lot of people do. Every divorced person I've ever met, definitely without exception, has put up a wall like this. And, so they spent the weekend together and she was able to clear her heart wall over those couple of days. Neither one of them told anybody what they were doing. What do think happened on Monday? Well, the sister's phone began to ring. Who was calling? Well, guys that had known her before,

but hadn't talked to her in a long time. How does that work? Well, there's a book written by Doctor. Rupert Sheldrake about, it's called dogs that know when, their owners are coming home. They did this study. They wanted to know when does the dog go to the window? When does the dog go to the door? You know, when the owner's coming home, and how does the dog know?

And so what they did is they actually put videos on these dogs and very carefully measured everything, and what they found was, no matter what time of the day it was, the moment that the owner began thinking about going home, that's when the dog would go to the window, that's when the dog would go to the door. How does that communication happen? Well, Shelterich calls it the morphic field, this field of energy that we're in. We're like fish swimming in a sea of information and energy.

There's information and energy all around us, and so that communication happens. You know, when I was in practice, once a year, my assistant and I, my office manager, actually, we would pull all the files, everybody that hadn't been in for the previous year. And we would go through each file and just take a moment and look at the person's photo and just think about them for a second and wonder how they're doing. And then we go to the next file.

Inevitably, we do this every year within the next week, 80% of those people would call and make an appointment. It's an uncanny thing, but you know, this is reality, there is this whole other dimension, this whole other awareness, if you will, and that's how things work. So think about the nurse, right? She'd been living right around the corner from her childhood sweetheart for eight years.

She'd been single all eight of those years. Why did she never run into him before? She was, he was right around the corner. Well, her heart was all just walled off. She wasn't open to it. And so she was just, you know, her heart wasn't able to connect. Once that heart wall was taken down, then things started being attracted into her life that she really wanted, right? Think about this. We all want to attract good things, great things, high vibration things to ourselves, don't we?

The problem is, you know, not only do our conscious thoughts go out into the world and bring things to us or repel other things, but if we've got a wall around our heart, including other emotional baggage in other places, those energies are broadcasting out their own frequencies out into the world, see?

And so I have absolutely come to know that the most powerful thing that a person can do for their mental and emotional health, for their success, for the amount of love they have in their life, but also for their physical health is to find out if they've got a heart wall and get rid of it.

You know, when I was in practice, during the last ten years that I was in practice, most of the people that I saw had been told there was really no hope for them at all in Western medicine, and these are people with, you know, really chronic conditions that

they'd basically been given up on by Western medicines. These people would come to me as a last resort, and when they would come in to see me, I would always do this exam, it was a regular medical exam, but then I would also do another exam where I would test the energetic balance of the chakras and the glands, the organs, the meridians.

It was not uncommon at all for these people who were so, so sick to find every organ and every gland imbalanced, and lots of chakras and meridians out of balance, and sometimes with these people, just to prove a point to myself, I would just do one thing.

I would just clear the wall, I would just take down the emotional energies that were wrapped around their hearts, and then I would do that exam again, and Abel, I would find inevitably 80% of all those organs and glands and chakras and meridians would now be balanced. See, that's how powerful the heart is. I mean, it's more powerful than we than we really know or comprehend.

Abel JamesAbel James

It's almost like a governor on our whole nervous system, or something that can that can twist it slightly, into imbalance. So what is the process though of actually removing those blocks and, and how long does it take? What What should people expect along the way, the unexpected, as I understand?

Dr. Bradley Nelson

Well, it's actually a really simple process that people can do. They can do it on themselves, and we teach that in all three of these books. Of course, the heart code book is the newest release. And it's specifically about taking down that wall in order for you to, to start removing these emotional energies that are stuck in your body. You have to have a way to communicate with the subconscious mind, which we've already talked about a little bit with the sway test. You can use the sway test,

and it'll give you yes and no answers. So think about it this way. Let's imagine that let's imagine I'm working on myself. Now, use a chart that looks like this. It's the chart of emotions, right, and this is available, you know, everywhere online, etcetera. There's thousands of them out there in Google Images. But, basically, if you look at it, the chart's divided up into two columns and six rows.

It just you know, there's a bunch of emotions listed on there that correlate with the organs and the glands in the body, and so the way you do it is really, really simple. First of all, you trust the subconscious mind. So, you can start by, let's say I'm working on myself and I'm doing this sway test, and I wanna remove an emotion from my heart wall, okay? The first thing I can do is I can ask this question, do I have a heart wall?

And let's say my body sways forward, so that's a yes, nine out of ten people, you know, will have that reaction. So then the next question would be, can I release a trapped emotion from my heart wall now? And if the answer to that is yes, then you go to the chart, and you'd look at the chart and say, all right, well, this emotion in column A? Now you don't know what emotion it is, but the subconscious mind knows, and that's what you're trying to figure out. It's kind of like playing charades

with your subconscious mind. It knows what you're trying to figure out. So you could ask, is this emotion in column A? Let's say that I sway backward on that one. So that means the emotions in column b. So we have 30 emotions left out of 60. Right? And so we know it's in column b, so we'll divide column b up a little bit, and I'll ask, okay, is this emotion in one of the odd rows in column B? Let's say I sway forward, so that's a yes.

So then I could ask, is this emotion in row one? Maybe I sway back, maybe that's a no. Is it in row three? Maybe that goes forward, so that's a yes. So there are five emotions in column B row three, confusion, defensiveness, grief, self abuse, stubbornness. So let's say that I, if, let's say I ask, is this confusion? I get a no. Is it defensiveness? I get a no. Is it grief? I get a yes. I go forward. So now we know what the emotion is. So the next question that we ask is,

do we need to know more about this? Because when you have an emotional energy that's trapped in the body, really what it is, is it's an open loop on an emotional experience, right? Normally, we experience an emotion, the emotional experience begins, and we feel the emotion, and we kind of acknowledge it and allow it to dissipate its energy and it goes away. And that loop on that experience is closed and we're ready for the next experience. But what we're looking for is

trapped emotions. And those are essentially, uncompleted emotional experiences, right, or open loops. So we have to ask this next question, is there more we need to know about this? Because sometimes the subconscious mind, in order to close the loop on an experience, we'll need you to know when this emotion happened, it might need to even dig a little bit deeper, but not usually, usually just figuring out the age is enough.

So let's say we know the emotion is grief, and now I wanna know, okay, do we need to know more about this? Let's say that I sway forward, okay? We need to know more. Where we would go is we would go to age, and so let's say I'm 40, which I wish I was 40. If I was 40, we could say, all right, did this happen earlier than, age 20? And let's say that I get a sway forward. That's a yes. Oh, okay. It happened between, 10 and 20. Maybe that's a yes. Okay.

Between 10 and 15. Maybe that's a no. So did it happened around age 16? Maybe that's a no 17, 18 goes. Okay. Great. At that point, I might have something pop into my head. Oh yeah, that's when grandpa died, and I could ask, is that what that's about? Maybe that's a yes. Do we need to know more?

Probably I'd get a no at that point, and then to release the emotion, we just use a magnet or your hand, either one, and we just start at the forehead, if you're working on yourself, start at the forehead, you just go over the forehead, over the top of the head a few times to release that emotional energy,

and that's essentially how it works. I mean, in a nutshell, sometimes it gets more interesting because sometimes you're taken to a column in a row, and, and all the answers are no, And that's how the subconscious mind will take us to what we call inherited trapped emotions. We all receive emotional energy at conception from a parent or parents, And sometimes they received an energy like that from their

parents. And these can go back for sometimes many generations, but we're able to identify those because the subconscious mind knows exactly what the perfect understanding, all about all your emotional baggage. If it was inherited, who it came from, I mean, you could trace it back through your whole genealogical line. And, and then when you release it, it releases not only from you, but also from those ancestors as well. It's it's, it's pretty wild, but it works.

Abel JamesAbel James

Isn't that incredible? You you also share some pretty wild stories about, heart transplants and most people's idea of what organs do in the body is pretty limited compared to this particular story.

Dr. Bradley Nelson

Yes, well, you know, it's interesting because the heart is so much more than we have really believed in the West. Ancient civilizations understood the heart. I mean, thousands of years ago, they believed the heart was this center of the body, the center of the being, the source of love and creativity and romance, and really the core of our being. And, in the West, you know, we've never given any credence to those old ideas. If anything, just might've thought,

you know, they just, there was a lot of poetic license going on back then, but they didn't have the kind of instruments we have today. We know the heart's just a muscle. That's all it is. But over a hundred years ago, when they were doing micro anatomy in the heart, they found, oh gee, there's all this gray matter in the heart. There's all this white matter in the heart, just like the brain itself, 40,000 neurites in the heart,

gray matter, white matter, the brain and the heart. And they pretty much ignored that. It wasn't until about 1991 that they first published a study that was beginning to show that the brain in the heart is a completely separate brain from the brain that is in the head. And when scientists looked at the communications between the brain and the head and the brain and the heart, What they saw really blew them away because they found that most of the communications were traveling

from the heart to the brain, which is exactly the opposite of what they expected to see. Right. And and that indicates the brain that is in our heads may be obeying the messages that are being sent by the brain that's in our hearts. And I remember, Abel, back in the 1960s, I don't remember what year it was, but I was a kid when they did the first heart transplant, I was always super interested in medicine, first heart transplant, I remember reading Life Magazine, you know, the big magazine about

Doctor. Richard DeBakey, and, first trans big deal. Well, you know, in the seventies, when heart transplants began to become more, common, doctors started noticing a weird thing. People would come back after the heart transplant and they would report that their taste in music or food or sports had completely flipped.

They didn't care about classical music. Now they can't get enough of it after the heart transplant, or suddenly they're a huge baseball fan, never went to a game in their life before that. Sometimes people would actually have memories of being in places that they never in life had ever visited. And when they were connected with the family of the heart donors, they would inevitably

find out, things like, yes, our daughter visited Rome every year. Was her favorite city in the world. And now you have memories of being in Rome and you've never been there. So those are her memories? How weird is that?

Well, we know that when one person's feeling love or affection for another person, their heart rates will synchronize, and it's very interesting, and in fact, we know that the heart is by far the most powerful organ in the body in terms of its biomagnetic field that extends out around the body several feet in diameter, and so it's a very interesting thing. Well, the heart, I believe, is everything the ancients believed it to be,

and so it really is the seed of the soul, the source of love and creativity and romance and so on. So when you feel like your heart's gonna break, like what happened to my wife when she was around age two, and dad was probably, you know, blowing his top at some other member of the family, one of her brothers and sisters, or the nurse, you know, when she was going through the breakup, the lady I first told you about that,

you know, his husband was having an affair, she found out about it. I mean, you can feel like your heart is going to break, right? And it's a very common thing, you know, those words heartbreak and heartache, they're equivalents for those words, every language that I've looked at so far, it seems to be a universal human experience. Abel, let me ask you something. Can you remember a time in your life where you felt that, like you felt like your heart was breaking? No, for sure, yeah. Me too.

Very uncomfortable feeling. And when that's going on, you're deep in grief, or someone is really hurting you, especially, it seems to be especially acute when it's someone that you really care about, someone that you really love that maybe is telling you they don't love you anymore, something like that, man, that just hurts so much, right? When that happens, your heart is under assault,

and because the heart's everything the ancients believed it to be, the subconscious mind will build a wall, I mean, on the heart. What is that wall made out of? Well, it's made out of your emotional baggage, and so you end up getting these energies that surround the heart, and the problem is, it's like your heart now is moved into a bunker, right?

Because the bombs were falling, but now, you know, maybe the divorce is over, or maybe the bully has moved away, or maybe you quit that awful job and got a better one, and now your life has improved, the bombs are no longer falling, and yet now your heart is encased in all of these layers of emotional baggage, your heart's still in a bunker. Now you get to live the rest of your life with your heart in a bunker.

And I don't say that there aren't other ways, you know, that this wall can be taken down. I think if you spend a lot of time in meditation and you really focus on getting rid of this wall, I think you can do it. But the beautiful thing about, the heart code is that it teaches you how to get rid of these layers in a very systematic way, very quickly. Most people using this method can find and relieve or release a trapped emotion in, you know, a minute or so. So it doesn't take a long time.

And so most people can get rid of, they've got a heart wall that can usually get rid of it in a week or two at the outside. And then your life can begin to shift in these beautiful, magical ways that we can't ever guarantee or anticipate how things will shift. Sometimes things shift for people immediately.

And they feel dramatically better right away. Sometimes people tell us that for the first time in their life, suddenly they know what it's like to feel the emotion of love or to feel the emotion of joy or to feel the love of the higher power of God for them, you know, the creator, the source, whatever you wanna call it. I think those are really profound things. But, anyway, yeah, it's

an amazing thing, and I never, like I said, I don't have this kind of an imagination. I never in my wildest dreams could have imagined that this goes on, but it does go on, and you know, Albert Einstein, probably a hundred years ago or so said, the medicine of the future will be the medicine of frequencies. And I think when he said that, probably nobody except his nerd buddies had any idea what that meant. Here we are.

Abel JamesAbel James

Well, when it comes to embracing your own intentionality, your own placebo effect essentially, or harnessing that that phenomenon. What is the resistance that I myself feel often to just thinking that it's make believe doesn't matter that that sort of thing? Why do we have that sort of resistance to doing something that could dramatically change the outcome of our lives and only takes a few minutes?

Dr. Bradley Nelson

Well, you know, that's a good question. I think that part of it is that we're in the West, especially in America, have been really propagandized all of our lives. We've been watching drug ads all of our lives pretty much. And if it wasn't drug ads, we were watching TV shows and so on that, you know, during our formative years. And so the vast majority of people are inculcated with this idea that, Western medicine knows best. And this is the only way that we can take care of ourselves.

And that's really a false idea. I mean, Western medicine is great at acute things, right? You know, if your leg is no longer attached to your body because you ran into the train, take your leg to the hospital and

they can probably reattach it, which is amazing. They do miraculous things, but most of the time, most people don't need drugs, of the time, most people don't need surgery either, what they need is to figure out what their inner imbalances are, and the number one most common kind of inner imbalance is just our emotional baggage. So yeah, I think that the reluctance is lessening.

I think that things have shifted a lot in the world since I began doing this work, and energy medicine now is something where when you talk to someone, pick pretty much anybody in your ran any random person. And if you, if you ask them, Hey, are you interested in energy medicine? And all the vast majority of people are going to say, yeah, that's interesting. I've heard of that. And I'm kind of interested. Yeah. Tell me more about it.

You know, twenty years ago, even ten years ago, nah, it's like weird poppycock, you know, it's only drugs and surgery for me, but then COVID happened.

Right? Yeah. And suddenly it's kind of like this band aid was ripped off of this huge problem that Western medicine people suddenly realize doesn't necessarily have our best interests at heart, and gee, now we're finding out, a study was just published, just very, very recently, within the last few days, I think, that showed that the PCR test for COVID was probably giving eighty five to ninety percent false positives. Yeah.

Which means there really was no pandemic really at all. So, I mean, people are waking up. The last statistic that I heard was that, twenty percent of all the doctors and nurses have left the profession because of COVID. So people aren't stupid, you know, lots and lots of people, had friends that died during that. And, a lot of them will tell you, yeah, so and so was fine till he got the booster and then she was dead in twenty four hours, you know, that kind of thing.

So Western medicine is great at some things, but the medical pharmaceutical, really the pharmaceutical industrial complex. I think has run its course in a lot of ways. They're desperately trying to cling onto their power, but people are waking up. And so, the beautiful thing about, work that, I've been so privileged to bring into the world is that it presents

a whole nother way for people to help themselves. There's always going to be a need for Western medicine, right? People are always going to have accidents. They're always going to need surgery. People are always going to need medication probably for one thing or another. But, I think, the idea that Western medicine is the only way that, new things will come to us is, is really just a false idea. Western medicine is the newest medicine, the newest kind of,

healthcare system on earth. And there are other ones that outdated by thousands of years. What about those? And, you know, we're realizing, okay, this was, you know, this is interesting and this is fine, but there are other ways. I think the inevitable future is that we have to begin communicating with the internal computer that knows exactly what a person needs.

It knows if you need surgery, it knows if you need some kind of a drug, because it's connected into that morphic field, and so it's connected in this database, this universal database of genius,

so you can ask the subconscious mind, you can get answers, and it'll tell you exactly what you need to do. So during those last ten years, I proved that because to myself, because, most of the people I saw had been told there was no hope for them at all, and yet the vast majority of them with only a couple of exceptions got well, in spite of that diagnosis, So,

Abel JamesAbel James

well, it seems like this is a good time to share one of the quotes from your book. Healing is not a destination you arrive at, but a way of traveling through life. And it seems like, at least to me, as soon as you feel like you haven't figured out, then you're getting a curveball pretty soon and you never are completely healed. It's more of a process than a practice.

So thank you for everything that you bring to the world to not only, heal others yourself, but also teach others how to do this process themselves and as practitioners. So this is a nice segue to, asking you what is the best way for folks to find your work as well as your new book, The Heart Code.

Dr. Bradley Nelson

Right. Well, people can go to, of course the books available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble, target.com, target stores. It's, also available on our websites at discoverhealing.com. My personal blog at, doctorbradleynelson.com as well. And it's available on Audible and wherever, wherever books are sold.

Abel JamesAbel James

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