This report contains the stories of five clients who have had Emotion/Body Code sessions with me over the past year or so. They contacted see me for the following: 1) suffering from painful bunions, 2) being hounded by thoughts, 3) worry over children of divorce, 4) concern for a dog who started hating going in the car, 5) unwanted facial signs of aging. (All names of people in this report are fictitious.)
Case Study #1
Painful Bunions
Most people would assume that bunions are solely a physical matter treated by surgery. This story flies in the face of this assumption.
Stephanie came to me with very painful bunions on both feet, which she had had since she was very young! As an adult, shoe ware had become a problem and she had long ago kissed goodbye to the idea of wearing high- heeled shoes.
The first thing that came up in her session as contributing to her bunions was a food intolerance. It’s hard to know what this has to do with bunions but, over the years I’ve learned that you never know what might be contributing to any health complaint. My job, as a Body/Emotion Code practitioner, is simply to ask the body what’s going on and then listen to the information provided. I then apply the Body Code techniques to correct the imbalances that have been identified.
The body knows best
The next thing that came up was structural: certain bones of her feet were out of alignment. Misaligned bones are not a surprise, but it is always fascinating in which order the body presents this information. Why food intolerances first and then bones out of alignment? Is the body “unraveling this person’s health history” in a particular way? Probably, but it certainly is nothing a practitioner could have figured out. So it is a relief to have the Body Code healing system to do this subtle rebalancing for us.
How the body knows what it knows remains a mystery to me, but I have learned that I can trust it! The results I have seen are striking, and all that is necessary is for me to do my part and then allow the body to lead. But when you think about it, “who” can know better what is going on in the body than the body itself?
Childhood emotional trauma
The next thing that came up in Stephanie’s session was that, as a 3-year-old, she had suffered a powerful emotional trauma, causing the energy of a feeling of deep crying and terror to get trapped in her body. She is now middle-aged. So just think how long that energy has remained lodged in her tissues. This experience is likely the one that set the body off toward creating the bunions. I’ll describe the trauma later in this article.
Other contributing imbalances
Next we went on to work on nerves in the head, other trapped emotions, and a “blown-out” organ circuit – caused by more trapped emotions in adulthood and also from childhood.
What does “blown-out circuit” mean? Think of a fuse blowing out on an electrical circuit. We know this is caused by overloading the circuit. Well, we can do that as well. Only, in Stephanie’s case it was caused by overloading an organ circuit by having trapped powerful emotions on that circuit. No problem. As soon as the trapped emotions were released, the organ circuit was restored to normal.
I’d like to point out the particular emotion trapped in childhood. It illustrates something we often see happening in sensitive people, and children really are open to this kind of thing, since until the age of 7, children are basically in “record mode”: The trapped emotion was “blaming”. It wasn’t Stephanie’s emotion. It had been strongly expressed by her mother toward her when she was only one year old. (Mom was probably tired out; Stephanie was perhaps not cooperating. Mom’s exasperation was picked up by Stephanie, who unwittingly trapped it in her own body. )
How many of our trapped emotions are actually other people’s baggage that we took too seriously and trapped in our own bodies? From my experience – lots!
Are all emotions experienced trapped?
I’ll interrupt the story for a moment to answer a question that often comes up about trapped emotions. Do we trap all the emotions we experience? No. Then do we trap all strong emotions we experience? No, not necessarily.
It’s difficult to know why some emotions are trapped, others, not, or why some people tend to trap more emotions than others, but I can share with you what I have observed with my clients. There are some subjects that have a tendency to cause one person to trap certain emotions, while for somebody else, those same subjects are totally neutral. I’ve also observed that when a person identifies too closely with somebody else’s suffering or with their behaviour, or if they’re overly critical of somebody else (perhaps because there’s something about them they don’t like in themselves), they will tend to trap strong emotions they experienced in that situation.
Changes start taking place
The next thing that showed up in my session with Stephanie as contributing to her bunions was another misalignment of bones. This time in her left forearm. What I am reminded when this kind of thing comes up is that no part of a human being is separate from any other part. When there is imbalance anywhere in the mind or the body, in time that imbalance will cause imbalances elsewhere in that person’s system, unless it is corrected or it corrects itself.
Then, the last thing we corrected in this session was an emotion that had been trapped due to Stephanie’s mother having gone to hospital to give birth to her sister. This emotion, called “creative insecurity” is something many of us trap when we are faced with situations we’re not sure we can trust ourselves to handle. For Stephanie it showed that she didn’t trust her ability to make it without her mother there. Her feeling of insecurity was strong enough to get lodged in her energy system especially since, as a 4-year-old, she had kept her fears all to herself and gone on “bravely”, being the good girl she was expected to be.
In future sessions, we worked on many areas that would seem to have no connection with her original complaint, such as, an imbalanced stomach, gall bladder, and bladder. Despite what we might think, the body knew better and changes started taking place in how my client’s feet felt.
We addressed organs and glands that were imbalanced, identifying the underlying causes and correcting them. These causes included misalignments due to toxicity, sensitivities to food additives, trapped emotions, distortion of the fascia, circuits that had “blown out” from strong emotional responses, and so on. All contributing to the bunion problem! How in the world could we have guessed if we hadn’t had The Body Code system?
The childhood experience setting it all off
Now, here’s the story that my client told me at the end of our first session, which I believe is what set this whole process in motion toward her developing bunions. When she was very young, perhaps around 3 years old, she had had a terrifying experience. She and her parents had got caught in a storm in a small boat – in the dark of night! They were visiting her aunt and uncle on the other side of the lake, and her uncle was steering the boat through the large waves into the dark night. Not only was it dark, but it was windy and raining heavily. Part way across the lake, her uncle called out that they weren’t going to make it because he couldn’t see anything. So they turned around and, once on shore again, they ended up making the trip around the lake on foot, in pitch black. Stephanie remembers being absolutely terrified the entire time – and so were the adults. She told me she believed that this was the trauma we identified right near the beginning of our first session together!
How are her feet since the sessions?
What has happened as a result of the Body Code? After a month, Stephanie was able to buy boots with heels and “they feel OK.” Shortly after our sessions were over, she told me that she had a date and, for the first time, was able to wear high heels! (For you guys reading this, this is a “girl thing”. Just know that this is a big deal!)
To this day, my client has had pain-free feet!
Case Study #2
Hounded by his thoughts
Larry came to me in a state of tremendous tension and stress. As he put it, “I can’t stop my recurring thoughts of guilt, regret, and anger….. I keep remembering things that happened and thinking about how stupid or incompetent I was.”
So we just jumped right in and asked the reason he was being haunted by these recurring thoughts.
Trapped emotions released
At first, 12 trapped emotions came up, 6 of which were guilt that he had trapped in his adult years. We also asked the reason he had trapped “guilt” so often and cleared trapped energies of overwhelm, shame, and …. more guilt.
The wonderful thing for Larry was that he didn’t have to relive the traumatic experiences that had caused him to trap these emotions. All he had to do was to sit back and let me use The Body Code and Emotion Code techniques to identify the causes and then to release them.
Other blocked energies
This case study illustrates how many different kinds of blocked energy can be contributing to a person’s symptoms. Here are some of the other things that were uncovered and corrected:
- His relationship with his father
- Despair due to his belief that things weren’t going to get better in his life
- A powerfully traumatic experience that had occurred when he was 33
- A strong desire to give up (this may have happened only once, but it was strong enough to have become lodged in his body, and it was affecting his wellbeing)
- A particular image that popped into his mind whenever the phone rang (in anticipation of somebody he was afraid to talk to)
Heart-Wall
Knowing what Larry had been through in his life, I knew that clearing his Heart Wall could have only positive results. Even if his Heart-Wall wasn’t directly related to why he was being hounded by his regrets, clearing the trapped energies around his heart would free him up in his life.
What’s the “Heart Wall”? It is a “wall” of energy that has formed around the heart. Of course, it is a metaphorical heart-wall, not anything you can actually see. However, this doesn’t detract from the huge impact it can have on our lives. The Heart-Wall is created in response to trauma we experience and it is a way we use to protect ourselves from future hurts. Although it’s metaphorical, it actually interferes with our ability to find love, health, and success.
Think about the number of expressions we have that include “heart”. “You’ve got to have heart” is one that comes to mind. Heart is our passion. To truly enjoy life, we need to “have our heart” in what we do. So imagine what it feels like when suddenly your Heart-Wall, which has been blocking you from experiencing your life fully, is gone!
Larry didn’t have a huge Heart-Wall, but it was big enough. We released 12 emotions and it was gone.
Other things that showed up
Besides having a Heart-Wall, Larry also had emotions trapped in his heart – 6 of them – including more guilt and overwhelm, a pattern of reacting to life that he began to observe in himself outside of our sessions.
We identified and corrected organ imbalances and some misalignments that showed up. Then one thing came up that made an immediate difference. It took under a minute to identify and correct it, but the next day, Larry told me “I feel more empowered.”
You may have heard the expression that we human beings are Spirit in a body. Well, that spirit doesn’t always stay in the body. I can personally attest to that, having lived for years with a feeling that I wasn’t entirely “here”. I lacked passion, and my feet never really felt as though they were on the ground.
When my spirit returned to be fully in my body, as it is meant to be, I felt it happen. It was like landing on the ground and suddenly waking up, after having been partially asleep for years. I felt fully present, fully “in my body”, my feet planted solidly beneath me. So I can understand how Larry would say that he felt more “empowered”. How much power can you have when your spirit is not fully present in your life? Can this be where the word “dispirited” comes from?
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Today, Larry says he is more aware of his previously automatic reactions to life and is now in more control. One of the areas of concern he had expressed during our sessions was an impending visit from his daughter. After she had visited, he reported with relief,
“It was better than usual. I reacted differently. Is it because of what we’ve done?I’m feeling freed up and I’m enjoying life more. I’m feeling less worried and far less tension and anxiety. I feel happier.”
To answer his question: Yes, I am quite certain that this change came about due to the Body Code work we did. After decades of being in this emotional vice that he’d suffered from, at last he was able to just be himself and enjoy life, without falling into his old emotional traps!
Case Study #3
Children of divorced parents
This case was unusual in that the clients did not participate at all. In fact, I did not speak to them even once throughout the whole process. It was their mother, Colleen, who had approached me about her kids. Though she and I spoke a couple of times, I did the work on my own and then emailed the results to Colleen. (This is something I do for people living in a far-away time zone or those who are too busy to be on the phone during the session.)
Colleen is a loving mother who is divorced from her husband. The children – a 17-year-old daughter and 15-year-old son – live with her. Colleen contacted me because she was concerned for her children. She knew that they had had difficult experiences in their childhoods, and, although the marriage was over, she was seeing the evidence of some scarring. So she gave me information that she felt was pertinent and left me to it.
Unhappy household
Both children had a lot of anger – not suppressed, either. It was being fully expressed. In fact, there was a lot of tension and yelling in the household, and this was worrying for Colleen. She knew that it wasn’t good for them all to be living in this atmosphere. (Colleen, herself, was contributing to the tension, as she had her own worries, being a single parent. So I did some work on her, as well, to help her get on with her own life.)
Colleen’s kids
Dan was very easily irritated. He was disrespectful, and just generally explosive. Any parent might put this down to his age – after all, 15 is a difficult year for boys. However, Colleen believed that her son’s behaviour didn’t have to be that way. She knew that he must be feeling miserable and hated to see him unhappy. As well, Dan was displaying a serious lack of respect for the women in his family, which he likely was patterning after his father’s own behaviour.
Emily, Colleen’s daughter, was depressed. Furthermore, even though she is highly intelligent, she was lacking in self-confidence and held herself back from expressing what she was thinking or feeling. Colleen knew her lovely daughter could be so much more, and she was worried that she was not being all she could be.
So I started working with Emily and Dan. Emily “allowed me” to do two sessions with her and then I was not able to communicate with her after that. What does this mean? Before I begin a session, I ask if I can have a connection with the person I’m about to work with. After the second session, I got a “No” from Emily’s subconscious. So we didn’t go any further. On the other hand, I was able to do four sessions with Dan.
Now, let’s see what was actually revealed during the sessions. First Emily.
Emily, the 17-year-old daughter
In order to support Emily, we needed to find out the reasons for the issues that her mother had observed in her:
- Her anger
- Her feeling of depression
- Her lack of self-confidence
- Her holding back from expressing herself
It wouldn’t be enough just to identify the reasons for her behaviour. We would also release whatever trapped energies her body suggested were the underlying cause for these behaviours.
I won’t go into everything that was uncovered and released, but I will point out some interesting things revealed during the sessions:
Why was Emily feeling so depressed? She had actually trapped the emotion of depression four times – twice had come from an adult in her life who was feeling depressed (this happens quite commonly with all of us, that we trap other people’s emotions). Two were from her own reaction to situations in her life.
Following were other trapped energies causing Emily to feel depressed:
- Grief
- Inner conflict
- Low self-esteem
- Feeling of unworthiness
- Feeling of worthlessness
- Hatred
- Despair Anchor (A trapped negative statement – “I can’t say what I want.”)
- A desire on her part to die
- An image in her mind of people looking at her with hateful expressions on their faces
Her lack of self-confidence came largely from
- A feeling of hopelessness that she had trapped at age 17
- An incident with her father (fathers do play an important role in the lives of their daughters with respect to their ability to go out into life with confidence)
- And a message that she was harboring in her subconscious, which she was in effect broadcasting to the world: “I’m not important”.
Dan, the 14-year-old son
Dan’s story turned out to be one caused largely by a deep feeling of lack of support and love from his father. This came up time and time again – going right back to the third trimester of his mom’s pregnancy.
Dan was carrying with him the memory of the past – stuck right out in front of him, rather than left behind where it belongs. In other words his past was blocking his ability to move forward into his future. Sad, really, when you’re a young man of just 15, with so much of your life ahead of you. He, too, suffered from a feeling of worthlessness, which showed up time and again in the sessions with him. Like his sister, he also had lost the will to live. A large part of his story was tied up with his feeling of being ignored by his father. He also felt that he couldn’t stand his life. Mainly, however, the two emotions that showed up over and over were:
- Unsupported (by his father)
- Worthless
The changes after the sessions
What was the outcome after these first sessions (Colleen says it’s not over and plans to do more in future)? Here is the feedback I got from Colleen about changes she’s observed after Emily’s 2 sessions and Dan’s 4 sessions:
Over all, for both Emily and Dan there is an increased sense of ease. Dan has been comparatively more patient and respectful, although sometimes he does lose his cool, but it is short lived and less explosive. Emily said she felt better but did not want to give me details, but she looks like she feels much better and somewhat relieved.
As a mother, this makes my life a lot easier, of course. But more than that, it’s amazing to see them talking together. They’ve always loved each other, but now there are times when they will show that affection – when they let it come through. For a mother, that’s awesome to see. Dan has always been an affectionate boy. But before, when he wanted to show affection, Emily would get pissed off with whatever he did. Now, there’s less of that. It’s more interactive. There’s still more work to do, but this is great! Thank you!
Just the beginning
I very much look forward to continuing to work with Emily and Dan. How fortunate they are to have a mom who is helping them to clear out these energies that were trapped so early on in their lives. What a difference this will make, eliminating what would likely have held them back, so they can grow into their futures feeling happy about themselves and their lives!
Case Study #4
A dog who hates cars
Bentley is a real charmer – a “Shih-Poo” that you can’t help loving!
Bentley’s owner had gone through a tremendous upheaval in her life (moving 3 times in Bentley’s first 4 years of life and then in his fifth year, moving constantly). Bentley’s owner came to me because she realized by the changes in Bentley’s behaviour that he had suffered tremendously from the lack of stability in his life. So my job was to find causes of his changed behaviour and see if we could help him get back to his old self.
Session 1 – Level of stress: 8 out of 10
The first thing I did was to get a benchmark of the amount of stress Bentley was under due to the upheaval in his life. The number 8 (out of 10) was suggested by his body, reflecting a pretty large effect on him of all this moving around.
Then we checked into what imbalances had possibly been created by this upheaval. It required 3 sessions to identify and correct all of these imbalances. In this first session, Bentley’s body began to tell the story of what he had been experiencing, including depression at the age of one, terror at six, and even physical trauma when he fell in a grate at 11 months and was caught under his armpits.
Session 2 – Level of stress: still 8 out of 10
In his second session, we learned more about what Bentley’s life had been like for him. If you read the report, you would think it was about a human being. This is one thing I’ve learned about animals. They have emotional reactions just as we do. If they could speak and express what they’re going through, I think most owners would probably look at their pets quite differently.
Here is some of what came out in Bentley’s second session:
- An “energy weapon” that had been placed in his right shoulder by someone at the daycare who doesn’t like dogs. It was on this very spot that he had been scratching, according to his owner.
- Bentley had suffered such tremendous feelings of overwhelm, anxiety, dread, longing and despair, that he had even given up hope at times and lost his will to live.
However, the thing that was of greatest interest to his owner was what surfaced about the car. He used to love going in the car, but since every move his owner made was done by car – transporting things back and forth – Bentley had developed a kind of “allergy” to the car. This was a real problem, since his owner didn’t want to have to leave him alone at home every time she went out.
Session 3 – Level of stress: 5 out of 10
In session three we were able to clear a lot more emotional imbalances created by the upheaval. I’m going to list them here, because it is truly fascinating to realize what a dog can experience:
- Longing (when left alone in the house)
- Depression (he had cried all the way when taken in the car to the hospital)
- Bitterness
- Hatred
- Blaming (he blamed his owner!)
- Dread
- Fear
- Anger
- Confusion
- Creative insecurity (a feeling of not trusting himself to be able handle what might come up in his life)
- Bitterness
- Resentment
- Defensiveness
- Frustration
Following is specific to what was causing him to react so negatively to going in the car:
- His “thought” about the car – “The car is bad.”
- An emotional trauma he had experienced: terror
- A fear of leaving home and never coming back to that home again
- An “allergy” to the image of the car
- And a loss of his will to live
Session 4 – Level of stress: 2 out of 10
When Bentley came for his fourth and final session, his body was suggesting that his stress level was down a 2 out of 10. So this time we worked on physical aspects of his health and corrected any imbalances that his body suggested had occurred in his organs due to the upheaval in his life.
Final outcome
Here’s the last update I received from Bentley’s owner about his behaviour since he had the Body Code sessions:
He has become more tolerant. He appears to be better since we worked on the effects of the upheaval. Before, he used to growl when anybody came near. Now he is more receptive.
He now allows the kids to sit on him without growling or yelping. He doesn’t like it, but he is tolerant. That’s a big change!
And going in the car?
He just sits down and relaxes in the car now. It was torture not being able to have him in the car. That would stress me out.
I’m so happy to have him back!
And I’m so happy to have been able to help!
Case Study #5
What is causing this expression on my face!
They say that, after 40, we have earned the faces we’ve ended up with. This last case is my own personal story. A few months ago, I came across a photo of myself that had been taken many, many years ago and, out of curiosity, I decided to hold it up in front of a mirror and compare how I looked then to how I look now. Aside from obvious signs of aging, which was to be expected, I also noticed a change in my natural expression, a change I didn’t particularly like!
Why do I look like this now?
The last few years have been pretty stressful ones. I know that I’ve trapped many emotions as a result of what I’ve experienced – and I’ve released many of them. But what would happen, I wondered, if I addressed specific aspects of the “look” on my face? Would this lead me to new trapped emotions. Even more interestingly, would I notice a difference in how I looked after I released the emotions that came up?
A totally new kind of “facial”
So I decided to give my face some Emotion Code “facial” sessions, and here’s what happened:
- I released the emotions that my body suggested had been contributing to my mouth turning down and looking tight.
- I released emotions that had been contributing to my jowl looking a bit saggy.
- I discovered why I had the creases between my eyebrows and deepening lines to the left and right of my nostrils, which I released.
- And most recently, after a particularly challenging time, I discovered why my face had suddenly started looking so unhappy.
What was the result of all this? Did these sessions make a difference? Yes! Without a doubt! I noticed a considerable relaxing of the muscles of my face and a most definite softening of the expression. I can even say that I look more rested and, hence, more youthful.
My friend wanted to try, too
When I told one of my friends about this, she wanted me to “work on” her mouth, which she said had been feeling tense for years. After we had released all of the trapped energies causing that, here is her comment:
“I can feel my mouth. It feels different now.”
So we went on to her double chin. Her body suggested that this was entirely physical: having to do with the following: misaligned muscles of her head, blown-out liver meridian, toxicity from vaccinations, allergies, dehydration, and some disconnection that had been caused by a difficult situation. We made the suggested corrections.
Making a difference in a very natural way
Will this cause my friend’s double chin to go away? I really can’t say. However, what is fascinating is that there is a reason for how we look! The lines, the sags, the graying tone and colour of our skin, the overall expression, the sadness or anger in one eye… there is no accident to any of these changes in our faces. So why not ask our bodies the reasons we have grown to look the way we look, and then release these imbalances being suggested by the body? I know that I, personally, am going to check in from time to time and see what else I can discover through my face so I can keep myself feeling – and looking – relaxed and happy!
I really enjoyed reading your case stories. They are fascinating!
So happy you enjoyed these. People’s lives are fascinating – and the fun of these sessions is that each person is different! You never know how their story will unfold. The trapped emotions that come up, for instance, are a kind of biography – of their inner life, previously known only to their subconscious!