The Emotion Code & Body Code: Unlocking Your Body’s Ability to Heal Itself

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Well, thank you Tom, it’s exciting to be here, I appreciate the opportunity.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah. And so tell us about your journey, you were a doctor of chiropractic, you were treating patients and helping lots and lots of people, how did ‘The Emotion Code’ come to be created by you? Like, how did that all work out?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Well, during all the years that I was in practice, I was like most doctors, I think most practitioners and people who care for other people, I was kind of obsessed with really helping my patients and getting to the roots of their problems and I wasn’t interested in band-aiding them, I wanted to actually fix them. And so as time went on, I learned everything that I could from every place that I could and every kind of healing modality that I could learn, both ancient and modern. 

And I started to study the energy and the energy field of the body and some of the ancient science about the Chinese medicine, the five element theory and so on. And what I found was that there was ancient knowledge about the organs and the glands of the body and that they produce the emotions that we experience. And I learned a very simple, kind of a primitive method of working with the emotions when I was first in practice, but didn’t get much out of it. But as time went on and I experimented more and more, some things kind of came to light for me and I started to realize that emotional baggage is a huge component of our mental and physical and emotional health.

Tom McCarthy

Right.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

And it creates a lot of our symptoms, mentally, physically and emotionally. So to give you an idea, one of the first people that I saw that had a trapped emotion where a big shift happened, a woman had come in to see me, I’d seen her before, but it had been six or eight months. She thought she was having a heart attack and she had crushing chest pain, difficulty breathing, the left side of her face was totally numb, her left arm was totally numb, it looked like a heart attack.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D. 

And I told my staff, we might need an ambulance, but let me just check her really quick and so I did and I found through muscle testing, which is how we tap into the… It’s one method of tapping into the subconscious, that she had a trapped emotion. And I dug a little deeper and found out that this emotion was grief and that it had become trapped in her body three years before. And when I arrived at that, she burst into tears and she said, “I can’t believe that’s affecting me still, “I thought I dealt with all that.” And I said, what in the world happened? And she said that three years before her husband had been having an affair and she found out about it and confronted him with the evidence and the whole thing blew up and she was really deeply in love with him and was very betrayed. 

But that marriage ended and she spent about a year in therapy, dealing with the aftermath and had recently gotten remarried. So as far as she was concerned, that ex-husband was just her ex and it was history but as far as her body was concerned, it was like, that had just happened. So the energies sea of the grief that she had experienced, stuck with her. And so when we talked about emotional baggage, that’s what we’re talking about, we’re talking about that emotional energy that can stay with us. Well, I released that energy from her which just took a few seconds, within about three seconds, the feeling came back into her arm in a newer face, the chest pain was gone, the difficulty breathing was gone and she left my office about 10 minutes later feeling totally fine, yeah. And I remember after she left, I sat down at my desk and I thought, what in the world that I just witness, how is that possible?

Tom McCarthy

That is an amazing story, otherwise she would have been on the way to the hospital and literally by releasing the emotion, everything came back to health, to normal. And so many people, I mean, that’s one great, really acute dynamic story, but so many people, I mean, everybody is walking around with trapped emotions and not even being aware. One of the things that I learned from your work is that sometimes we even have emotions that have been passed on from ancestors that we didn’t even happen with us. Talk a little bit about that.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Well, that’s exactly right. Well, first of all, what a trapped emotion is, is a it’s a ball of energy, the human body is an energy field and if you look at your hand, it looks pretty solid but if you were to zoom in with a big enough microscope at about a million power magnification or more eventually you’d be looking at a single individual atom and if you look inside the atom, there’s really nothing in there, it’s just empty space with some little infinitesimally, tiny energies zipping around at the speed of light. 

So our bodies are really made of pure energy and a quantum physicists like Albert Einstein had been trying to help us understand this for over 100 years now. Well, science is finding now that animals somehow pass down traumatic memories. So for example, if you’re an elk and you’re on the mountain somewhere and in a certain area, maybe in some particular meadow, a wolf pack almost takes you down and kills you, but you get away. Well, you may have a trapped emotion of panic or fear from that event, right?

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

And what’ll happen is the offspring that you have, the baby elks, science is finding out that up to 14 generations down the line, they will somehow have that memory. And so in a case like this, they would avoid that area of the mountain, they wouldn’t know why-

Tom McCarthy

Right.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

But they find this with mice and rats and so on. Well, this is exactly what happens to us and human beings it’s a very, very common thing, we see this all the time with people, that part of our makeup, part of our personalities is from the emotional experiences that these ancestors went through.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah,

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

We’ve all got ancestors and many of our ancestors lived through traumatic things.

Tom McCarthy

Sure.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

The Jewish maybe it was pogroms, if you’re black, maybe your ancestors were slaves and so on. And so by finding and removing that emotional baggage, it can absolutely be life-changing for the person that is living in the present time.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

My ancestors on my father’s side were Irish and having some of that emotional baggage removed from me, helped me to break through financially because I think that they were very poor and so there was a lot of emotional energy about that, that was kind of blocking me.

Tom McCarthy

And it can impact so many different things, like pretty much guaranteed, one of your ancestors, all the people listening to this, one of your ancestors had heartbreak, just like that lady, where someone disappointed them or cheated on them. Certainly one of our ancestors if not many had financial difficulties or illnesses with different illnesses. So there’s so much that can be done and the interesting thing is, is you’re not working, your work is not about working on the conscious mind, it really is going down below where there’s such immense wisdom that so many people don’t know how to tap into and I love the way that your work is able to do that.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Well, right, exactly. Most modalities that try to work with energy for example, will try to work with your conscious memories, if you have some kind of an issue, for example, they’ll try to approach it by asking you, if you have conscious memories of that. Let me tell you a story to illustrate how sometimes that’s not enough. I was at a conference once and called for a volunteer and a woman came up out of the audience, a young woman, about 20 years old. And I asked her if you had any particular issues and she couldn’t think of any and so I did some muscle testing with her and found that she had a trapped emotion, the emotion was forlorn, which is kind of feeling all alone and hopeless and desolate.

Tom McCarthy

Okay.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

And testing further, I found that this had occurred in the first year of her life.

Tom McCarthy

Ahhh!

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

I asked her if she had any idea about what this might’ve been, and she had no idea. Well, at the beginning of this event, I had happened to meet her as she was coming in and she was there with her mother, so I looked out at the audience for her mother and her mother was as white as a ghost and I said, “Hey, do you have any idea “what this might have been about?” And her mom was very embarrassed, but she said that she thought she did, she’d never told her daughter about this. But she said that back in those days, she used to use cloth diapers and one day she accidentally pinned her daughter to her diaper-

Tom McCarthy

Ooh!

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

She didn’t know about it and didn’t discover it until she changed her the next time and she was horrified to find that out. So here’s this poor baby and she’s got this pin through her flesh, this safety pin and she’s in all this terrible pain, probably for at least a couple of hours maybe more and no one’s helping her, so she’s overwhelmed with this feeling of being forlorn-

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

That energy becomes trapped in her body and all of these years later, it’s showing up at this event and so I went ahead and released that trapped emotion. And releasing a trapped emotion what we do is we just slide a magnet or fingertips over the governing meridian, which goes from the the upper lip down the back to the tailbone-

Tom McCarthy

Right, yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Just a few swipes. And that was it, it was released, And so she went back and sat down, well, about 10 days later I get an email and it’s from this girl’s mother and she said, listen, she said my daughter, Jessica, didn’t tell you, but she’s had a problem, I think it’s for about the last eight or nine years she said with her hip and her knee and she’s got pain and it has kind of gradually slowly been getting worse and it is kind of affecting the way she walks. 

And she said, we’ve tried different thing, nothing has ever helped it. But she said, since you released that trapped emotion, the pain has been completely gone, not only that, she feels this new sense of lightness of being which she’s never felt before, she’s telling everybody about this. She said, I waited 10 days ’cause I wanted to make sure this wasn’t some kind of a fluke, but it’s real. And so there’s a great example you see, how the subconscious mind, which knows everything and remembers everything-

Tom McCarthy

Yes.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Can give answers where the conscious mind cannot.

Tom McCarthy

Right, right. And when you clear these trapped emotions, because as we mentioned before, they get passed on, when you clear and this is what I loved about your work too, because some of your work actually takes you back to ancestors where you’re clearing in you, but you’re clearing for them too and so it literally, it cleans out the lineage, right? Is that right? Am I saying that right?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Well, it actually does and I’ll tell you a story that some of your listeners or viewers might have a hard time believing, but I’ll tell you, anyway. I was at an event one time I had about 300 people there and I asked for someone in the audience who was really in pain and a woman came hobbling up to the stage with a cane. And she said that she had this really bad hip pain for a year and she’d been to different doctors, nobody been able to figure it out. But it was bad enough that she had to lift her leg by hand to get in and out of her car and so I tested her and her pain level was a nine out of 10. And so I found an imbalance and fixed it that took it to a four. 

The next thing that I found was an inherited trapped emotion of fear that she’d gotten from her father. Now, the subconscious mind knows this stuff, consciously we know very little, because subconscious mind gave the answer that she got it from her father at conception, he gotten it from his father, he gotten from his father and it went back in the father’s line, 12 generations.

Tom McCarthy

Wow.

Bradley Nelson, M.D. 

So when I released this, the pain was completely gone and she was dancing around on the stage. And I actually ran into her a year afterwards and she said it still hadn’t come back, it was at another event of mine. But the interesting thing about this was when you event was over… One of the things that we do when we’re at a live event and we find an inherited emotion, the direct line ancestors, the spirits of those people actually show up. I mean, not that I can see them, but I can test for them, on the person’s arm-

Tom McCarthy

Sure.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

If they’re there and they always seem to show up and they always are there on the stage, they’re never floating around in the air or sitting in the audience, they’re always right there on the stage. So I did that with her before I release this emotion and all those ancestors were there on the stage, which sounds weird. But anyway, I they’re still alive, they just don’t have bodies and they’re about to have something released from them too you see?

Tom McCarthy

Wow!

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

So anyway, when this was over, I went back to our booth at this event and I was sitting there with some of our staff members and a woman comes up and she said, listen, she said, I was sitting in the audience with you with this last lecture that you did and she said, I just want you to know something, she said, I’m one of those people that has that ability to see spirits and I’ve seen them all my life. He said, it’s kind of been a blessing and it’s kind of been a curse, but she said, I just wanted you to know that when you were talking up there on the stage about those ancestors, those grandfathers of hers, that I could see them, they were all there. But you said there was something else going on that I don’t know that you’re aware of, she said, what I saw was surrounding stage about 200 spirits of this woman’s yet to be born descendants-

Tom McCarthy

Wow!

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Were there rejoicing that they weren’t gonna have to take on this woman’s crippling emotional baggage.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah, wow.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

So I thought, oh, okay, that’s interesting.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah. That’s so inspirational, when we work on ourselves and we heal ourselves, we release trapped emotions, our children and our grandchildren, our great grandchildren don’t have that burden of carrying the stuff that we gave to them. So I love that aspect of your work, that is so cool. Hey, talk to us about trapped emotions, like how does it emotion get trapped and where do they get trapped?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Well, typically… First of all, if you think about the body as an energy field, when you’re feeling an intense emotion, like let’s say a feeling an emotion of anger or grief or resentment or grief or sorry, I said grief already, grief, resentment, there’s lots of different emotions that we experienced, right? But let’s say that you’re feeling an intense emotion, maybe it’s hatred or panic or frustration, whatever it might be, on a quantum level what’s happening is you’re feeling a certain frequency, a certain vibration because everything’s frequency, everything is vibration. 

And if that emotion is powerful enough, the energy of that emotion may become trapped in the body. So let’s say for example, that… Well, to give you an idea. There was a guy that came to me many years ago who had really serious, low back pain, it was a nine on a zero to 10 scale, if you’re a 10, you go to the ER-

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

He was a nine. And I tested him and found that he had a trapped emotion, the emotion was anger and testing further found that this had occurred 20 years before that’s when the energy had gotten stuck in his body.

Tom McCarthy

Right.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

And he remembered, he said, yes, it was a work situation he’d been falsely accused of something and he was very angry, very upset about it. So I released that emotion and the pain went from a nine to zero that fast, so it was gone.

Tom McCarthy

Wow!

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

He couldn’t believe it, it was like a miracle, he keeps bending over and walking around slamming-

Tom McCarthy

Where did my pain go?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Yeah and I was grateful that it works so well, right? Well, how did that work? Well, now think about this, when you have a trapped emotion, it’s a ball of energy.

Tom McCarthy

Okay.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

And what we believe, from about the size of a baseball, about the size of a softball and what these things do, wherever they lodge in the body and they can lodge anywhere. What they do is they create this distortion of the normal energy field of the body.

Tom McCarthy

Okay.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

When you distort the energy field, you’re distorting ultimately, the tissues, you’re interfering with the chemical reactions, interfering with the blood flow, the lymph flow, the flow of acupuncture energy and so on.

Tom McCarthy

Right?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

So when we release a trapped emotion and that distorting force is no longer there, suddenly pain disappears. And 90% of all the physical pain that people have is actually due to emotional baggage believe it or not, now-

Tom McCarthy

What percentage did you just say?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

90%.

Tom McCarthy

90% you said ?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

90% and we see it all the time over and over and over. Every week I do live events where we’ll have people from all over the world and I don’t even like to talk to them unless, I mean, to do an example, unless they’re at least a seven on a zero to 10 scale and usually within five minutes or 10 at the most I can get them usually completely out of pain or we can get the pain greatly reduced.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

So anyway, here’s this guy he’s completely pain-free now, instantly and what happened was a couple of days later he came back into me and here’s what he said, he said, Dr. Nelson said, I still can’t believe my pain has gone, that was really amazing. But he said, I had another problem when I came in here that I didn’t tell you about it, he said, for as long as I can remember, I basically had been what you’d call a rageaholic and he said, I’m always yelling at my wife and my kids, I gotta watch the road rage, I’ve been to anger management several times, hasn’t really helped me, I’m just really tightly wound. But he says, since you released that trapped emotion of anger for me, I feel really different, things that used to set me off don’t set me off now. 

I feel kind of relaxed and kind of peaceful and I don’t remember feeling this way maybe for a long, long time, how did you do that? And at the time I said, well, I don’t really know, but what we believe now you see, is that when you have a trapped emotion, in his case, he had this ball of energy, literally a ball of anger in his low back, right? So what was going on is that when a situation would come along in his life where you might tend to feel the emotion of anger, he would feel it much more easily, much more readily than he otherwise would have, because why? Because literally part of his body was feeling that anger emotion that vibration 247 see? So that’s how this works, if you can imagine in your own life what have you been through, you’ve been through any breakups, were you abused? Did your parents get divorced? Did you get divorced maybe more than once? I mean, what have you been through? What emotional baggage do you have and what is it doing to you right now? Because this emotional baggage will interfere with your ability to really create the life that you want, especially if that emotional energy has gotten clustered around your heart.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.And talk about heart wall, I know that’s part of your work, a big part of your work, and you kind of identified this concept of a heart wall. What is a heart wall?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Well, so let me go back to the 1960s when doctors first started doing heart transplants, do you remember those days?

Tom McCarthy

Yeah, I was born in 1961, so I remember a little bit those days .

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Yeah okay, yeah. Well, you were pretty young, but anyway, it didn’t take too long before these heart transplant patients would sometimes come back to the doctor and relate strange things. They would say things like my taste in music has totally changed, I love classic music now, certain passages I keep listening to or they say my taste in food or sports or whatever had totally changed. Sometimes they would say that they had memories of being in places now where they know they had never actually visited. 

Sometimes they would say their handwriting had totally changed . And in every case, when these people were taken and connected to the family of the heart donor, they would find out, oh, yes, that’s our son’s handwriting that you have, how weird is that? Or they’d say, our daughter loved Rome, she went there every year and you have memories of being there, but you say you’ve never, ever visited there, how strange is that? So there are whole books written about this, this is called Cellular Memory, right? Well, we now know that the heart is another brain really, it’s got gray matter and white matter in it and there’s a little brain in the heart we say and in fact, when scientists were looking at the brain and the heart and looking at the communication between the two, they found that they were expecting to see most of the communication going from the brain to the heart and it was just the opposite. 

The vast majority of those communications were going from the heart to the brain, telling the scientists that the brain that’s in our heads apparently is obeying the messages sent by the brain that’s in our hearts, right? Well, if you’ve ever felt like your heart was gonna break and I’ve had that feeling a couple of times in my life, you feel that physical sensation, like there’s an elephant sitting on your chest, did you ever feel that Tom in your life?

Tom McCarthy

Sure, absolutely, yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Most of us as human beings feel that at some point or another, somebody died or we’re going through a breakup or whatever’s going on. And those physical sensations are where the word heart break and also heartache, that’s where those come from, see? ‘Cause it’s a real physical sensation and the reason why that’s happening is because your heart is under assault in that moment. And so the subconscious mind will put up a wall around the heart and that wall we have found is made of layers of your emotional baggage.

Tom McCarthy

Wow!

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

One of the people that I saw after this was… This was actually shown to us, it was a remarkable story, this actually in ‘The Emotion Code’ book, I didn’t discover this, I never would’ve thought of it, I don’t have this kind of an imagination to think that people can put up a wall, like an invisible force field to protect their heart. Well, it actually kind of makes sense when you think about it, but I never would’ve thought of it. But anyway, not long after we discovered this, a woman came in to see me, she was 38 years old and she had neck pain that was pretty bad and she’d seen a couple of doctors for it that hadn’t been able to help her. So as I was talking with her, she told me that she was a nurse and she hadn’t dated in eight years and she was never going to date again. And she was an attractive person and I thought, well, gee that’s kind of odd and I said, why do you feel that way? Why are you single? She says she was determined to die single and she was dead serious about it. 

And I thought, gee, that’s interesting and she said that eight years before, she was really deeply in love with this guy who dumped her and broke her heart, right? So I tested her and found she had this heart wall phenomenon going on, there were three emotions, three layers of emotional energy, three trapped emotions, making up this wall around her heart. And they all had to do with the breakup from eight years before, so I cleared those three trapped emotions and all of a sudden the heart wall was gone and all of a sudden guess what else was gone? Her neck pain completely gone.

Tom McCarthy

Wow!

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

So she left the office feeling totally fine and she didn’t come back for three months. When she walked back into the office, three months later, I remembered her immediately and I said, hey, I haven’t seen you for a while, you look great, how are you doing? 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 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. That’s a nice shift, right? From celibacy to almost engaged .

Tom McCarthy

That is awesome, what a great story. And it’s interesting too, so the heart wall, right? The trapped or the shielding emotions around the heart, but she was feeling pain in the neck. So sometimes it’s not always the place you’re feeling pain where the emotions trapped?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Well, right exactly. Neck pain, shoulder tightness, sometimes chest pain can result from having a heart wall.

Tom McCarthy

Okay.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

A lot of the time when you have pain in a particular area, a trapped emotion will probably be right in that area, but you never know things in the body sometimes are referred, sometimes you’ll feel pain from a trapped emotion in a certain area. Like for example, if you have a trapped emotion, in your gallbladder imbalancing it, you’re probably gonna have right knee pain at some point. If you got a trapped emotion, that’s imbalancing your adrenal glands, you’re probably gonna have pain in the left knee. If you’ve got a trapped emotion affecting the liver, you’re probably gonna have pain in between your shoulder blades and so on. So anyway in ‘The Emotion Code’ and in ‘The Body Code’ we explain all of these connections and that’s really interesting.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah, that is amazing. So what types of illnesses are most likely to be caused by trapped emotions? You just listed a couple, but people that are suffering from different illnesses, it’d be kind of cool to know that the emotion code can work, what are some that you see quite a bit of success with?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Well, depression.

Tom McCarthy

Depression.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Every case of depression, if it’s serious, there’s always a heart wall there in our experience and we’ve been doing this for 33 years now. In fact, the most serious cases of depression that I’ve seen personally, were people who were having to decide every day, if they were gonna live another day or take their life that day.

Tom McCarthy

Wow.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

I’ve seen people like that turn around in a matter of days, by having the heart wall removed. Autistic children who will not look you in the eye when that heart wall is taken down, that’s often the first thing they will do, is they will make eye contact, really amazing. Anxiety, panic attacks, phobias, phobias are usually pretty simple, usually one or two trapped emotions, sometimes three. Phobias of all kinds, eating disorders, self-sabotage of all kinds.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

We’ve also found though that in every disease process that we have seen, every named disease, there is always emotional baggage present, that’s my experience over these three decades.

Tom McCarthy

Right?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

So that’s a good question, people often ask me, well, are there certain diseases? Well, the bottom line is that I think every disease process has an emotional component.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Now, sometimes the emotional energy is the biggest component of all. For example, a lady came into me one time, many years ago and she was 72 years old and the first thing that showed up with her was that she had a trapped emotion that needed to be released. And so these trapped emotions can lodge anywhere in the body, so I figured out what the emotion was sadness. And then I traced it back, it had occurred earlier than 10 years, 20 years, 30 years, it had actually occurred, believe it or not in 1963. And so I thought, gee, 1963, sadness, gee, maybe that was about the JFK assassination.

Tom McCarthy

Right.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

So I verbalize that question to her and at the same time that I’m getting an answer from her subconscious mind through muscle testing yes that’s exactly what this was, that’s what created this at same moment, she’s breaking down weeping. And she tells me that JFK’s assassination affected her so deeply and then when JFK Junior died in the plane crash, it was like it at all come back all over again and for about a week she couldn’t work or do anything.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

She was just crying all day long. So I thought about that and I thought, there’s a great example of how a trapped emotion can make you feel a particular emotion in a more enhanced way than normal, right?

Tom McCarthy

Right.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

And so then I thought, gee, I wonder where this thing has been, this ball of imbalancing energy, this sadness about JFK, where’s this been all of her life? And so you can ask this and in ‘The Emotion Code’ book, we teach you how to do this, it’s really simple. So it turned out, it was not on the right side of her body, it was on the left side of the body, not in the abdominal area or the leg, it was actually in the left breast. And when I arrived at that all of a sudden she and I looked at her at each other like a couple of owls ’cause she’d had that breast removed four years before, see? And so this is the kind of thing that happens to us, we have these emotional experiences and we’re so used to just shrugging it off and moving on, but then our bodies carry these energies with us, if they’re powerful enough or if maybe we have learned to stuff those emotions, as they want to express, we just bury them, that will also create trapped emotions. 

So we all have them and I’m getting rid of them, I think is really about the most important thing you can do for your health. And let me tell you one other thing, that is for all your viewers who are interested in creating maybe a better life or a better business or more success or whatever it is, the best ideas that you’ll ever have, are not up here in your head, they’re in your heart, you see? And when you take away that wall-

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

All of a sudden that creativity can start to flow where maybe it has never flowed as well before, it’s really interesting.

Tom McCarthy

That’s beautiful, that’s beautiful. And the work is so powerful because it is using your strongest part of your mind, which is that subconscious, I call it your super-conscious. But when I went through the work that you do and we actually, my son and I went to one of your coaches or what do you call them?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Practitioners.

Tom McCarthy

Practitioners, yeah, one of your practitioners and then I did the work just from the book and it’s so cool because like your subconscious, your super-conscious is coming up with information that consciously you never would’ve thought of, like you mentioned earlier, like she didn’t know 1963 she was probably a younger person didn’t know that that was trapped, but your super-conscious knew it all along. And so you’re able tap into that incredibly wise part of yourself to get answers that allude most people their entire lives, they just suffer and suffer and suffer needlessly because they don’t know how to use the emotion code. So I’m just so happy that you created this and that you’ve been able to share it with so many people. Yeah, go ahead, Brad.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.. 

Oh, I was just gonna say that is the beautiful thing about it, that people can learn how to do this themselves.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

And we’ve also got almost 8,000 practitioners we’ve certified in 80 countries around the world that you can find at our website at discoverhealing.com-

Tom McCarthy

That’s what I wanted to ask you too, so the website is discoverhealing.com?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Yep, discoverhealing.com.

Tom McCarthy

And what are resources they can find there if they… Obviously they can buy the book and the book is great because it really does, it’s not one of these things that are just a teaser, it really does show you how to do the work, which was very, very generous of you when you wrote that, what other resources do they have to be able to go beyond the book if they want to?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Well, there’s lots of information on the site, lots of webinars that we’ve taught, perhaps a specific webinars, for example, things about neck pain and headaches and back pain things you can watch where you get more information. We have a course there on muscle testing, okay?

Tom McCarthy

Okay.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

And that’s how we get the information from the subconscious mind. There’s information there about the body code as well, which is kind of the next level up from the emotion code.

Tom McCarthy

Right.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

There are videos and things that you can watch and a community forum that you can connect with as well.

Tom McCarthy

Beautiful, discoverhealing.com. Talk about muscle testing, well how does muscle testing give us these answers? Maybe you talk a little bit about that connection it has to the wisdom within us, ’cause some people know about it, some people might just be learning about muscle testing, but if you can just kind of talk about that for a minute or two.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Right. Well, if you think about the subconscious mind, it is the vast bulk of our intelligence. The conscious mind is in a way just kind of along for the ride-

Tom McCarthy

Or get in the way sometimes.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Or get in the way exactly right. Your subconscious mind is so intelligent that we really have not even wrapped our minds yet around how intelligent it actually is. But the subconscious mind can take, for example, the sandwich you had a lunchtime today, it could take that sandwich and make that into new cardiac muscle cells or new blood cells and so on. Every single cell in the body, it’s been said that each cell is in complexity, it’s equivalent to an aircraft carrier with thousands of people working at their individual jobs and jets with their engine spooled up, ready to take off on the ramp, that’s a single cell, there’s 37 trillion of those in our body. And the subconscious mind I believe knows the whole history of every single cell down to the quantum level and even beyond that. 

So everything you’ve ever done, every face you’ve ever seen in a crowd, everything you’ve ever eaten or tasted or touched or smelled the whole history of your health or disease is logged in the subconscious mind. And so all the work that we do with the emotion code and the body code is all about asking the subconscious mind, the source itself, what’s really going on, what’s really needed? And if you think about it in Western medicine, how do they get answers? Well, usually what they do is they’ll they’ll run tests, but a lot of the time tests are negative, if I had a nickel for every time a patient came to me that said, every test they’d run was negative.

Tom McCarthy

Right.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

I could probably go to lunch somewhere pretty nice. but that’s Western medicine, which is great at acute problems, right? But a lot of the time what happens is if you’ve got some kind of an issue, western medicine will give you… They’ll recommend some kind of a drug, try that and see if that works so if it doesn’t try a different drug, meanwhile, those drugs are toxic to the liver and kidneys and so on. So we use muscle testing, is one way, a really simple, easy, inexpensive way to tap into this internal computer that is so intelligent. And so we use different methods of testing, we use a method called the Ring-in-ring test looks like this.

Tom McCarthy

I liked the method that I think it was at the very beginning, it’s just the sway test.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

The sway test, yeah.

Tom McCarthy

Either your swaying forward or swaying backwards.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Yeah, I can walk your viewers through that one really quick, they can try that-

Tom McCarthy

Sure, that’d be great.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.. 

Okay, so-

Tom McCarthy

And the other thing I found too, before you get into it, is like, cause in the beginning your conscious mind is getting in the way a little bit like, okay, is this accurate, is this true? The more you do it, the more sensitive and the more the the subconscious you feel a more direct truth or connection that will come forward. So Dr. Brad is gonna walk us through this, but with repetition and just kind of trusting and kind of allowing things to happen, you’ll get better and better at it. And it might be great right away, but for me I just found it was just becoming so much easier the more that I did it.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Yeah, that’s a great point, it does get easier the more you do it. So I’m thinking about this, If you put a plant in a pot near a window in your house and you keep giving it water, eventually you’ll notice the plants growing toward the light coming in from the window.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

They’ve done studies and they found that a plant will actually grow away from noxious sounds coming out of a speaker in a room. So the human body has the same ability, if we’re holding, if we’re standing or maybe sitting on the edge of our chair, that also works, but usually standing works best. If you’re standing and you’re totally relaxed and you’re holding thoughts of truth or positivity or congruency, your body will tend to sway forward, within about three to 10 seconds. 

If you’re holding thoughts of negativity or false or incongruency, your body will tend to sway backwards within about three to 10 seconds. And that’s your inner computer, your subconscious mind trying to move you either forward or backward, either toward truth positivity or congruency or backward away from false negativity or incongruency. So here we go, let’s try this. So if you can’t stand up, you can sit on the edge of your chair and this can also work. If you can stand, go ahead and stand up, drop your hands down to your sides, close your eyes and take a breath, let it out. There we go and I’d like you to think about something, we’ll start with something negative. Let’s start with the word War, now if you think about that word War, we’ve heard that word pretty much almost every day of our lives. 

There’s war that’s been going on this planet since day one but what I’d like you to imagine for a moment is, imagine that you’re trying to describe to someone else what really goes on. Maybe somebody that’s been living in a cave their whole lives, they don’t know what war is or somebody from another planet. What are people doing to other people in war? What are men doing to other men? Young men, usually. What’s happening to villages? What’s happening to cities? What’s happening to families? Think of all the tears that have been shed on this planet of all the wars that have been fought since day one. Now the moment your subconscious mind, if you hold onto those thoughts about war at a certain point here, after a few seconds, your subconscious mind will connect with what you are consciously thinking about and you’ll start to sway backward. Your subconscious mind will try to move you away from that thought of war. Could you feel yourself going back on that Tom?

Tom McCarthy

Well, as soon as I said the word war, I was like back on my heels, yeah. I didn’t even need the full description Brad. Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

All right, well, you’ve been doing it a little bit, so yeah, you get more sensitized.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

So close your eyes again and hands down by your sides, just relax and we’re gonna try something a little more positive now. I’d like you to think about unconditional love. Imagine being surrounded with unconditional love, what would that feel like? Imagine being a being of unconditional love, imagine that your ability to love others unconditionally is so great that the love that you have, the love that fills your heart for all being, for all of creation is so big that your heart can’t even contain that love, that love expands out from your heart and it fills the galaxy. What would it feel like to be that kind of a being, to be that kind of a person? Now, if you hold that thought for very long, within a few seconds, your subconscious mind will connect with what you’re consciously thinking about and you’re gonna start to sway forward. And I know a lot of your viewers were right on their tiptoes with that one.

Tom McCarthy

I was over my skis there, Brad, yeah. That’s awesome. Well, this has been incredibly insightful and I’m just so grateful to have you on as a guest, Brad. Final thoughts. What’s one or two things you’d like everybody to remember from the message that you shared with them today?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Well, first of all just to tie a knot on that last little episode, what you can do with the sway test-

Tom McCarthy

Yes.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

You can ask questions, hold the question in your mind, you’ll tend to sway forward for yes, backward for no, so you can find trapped emotions and release them that way.

Tom McCarthy

And you have to do that though you also too have to not have any expectation, right? Like, I want it to be yes, I want it to be yes. you just have to totally like almost be vulnerable and just be open to whatever the answer is and know that whatever it is, it’s fine, you can release something, you can work on and it’s not always going to be yeah, I’m positive or so. That was really important for me to do too, you can’t try to control the process.

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

No, that’s exactly right, you’ve got to let go and be okay with whatever answer the subconscious mind wants to give you. So I’m in ‘The Emotion Code’ we’ve got all these different methods of muscle testing, the sway test is an easy one, there’s more self-testing methods, we teach you how to test other people directly by having them hold out their arm and their arm will be strong for yes and weak for no and so on. Well, just in closing, I would say that we’re living in a wonderful time, it’s the best of times and the worst of times to paraphrase somebody back then. 

But there’s this new technology out that can enable you to tap into your own subconscious mind and to start healing yourself, to start healing your life and healing your loved ones as well. And the beauty of this is that you can learn how to do this yourself and it also works at a distance. So our practitioners around the world, they work with other people, most of them are in other countries and so on and yet many of their lives will be changed from the work that they’re doing. So my advice is to be open-minded, take a look at this because it’s been said many many times that energy medicine is the future of medicine. And what you’re seeing here is really what we believe is one of the most advanced methods of energy healing that is available well so far.

Tom McCarthy

Yeah, Brad, it is amazing, it’s been remarkable whenever I’ve used it and thank you so much for bringing it out to all of us and thank you again for being part of our Global Energy Healing Summit. So discoverhealing.com is the website?

Bradley Nelson, M.D.

Yeah.

Tom McCarthy

Please go visit Dr. Brad site, read the book, you will love the book, it will give you a lot of answers to things that you probably didn’t have answers to before. Brad, thank you so much, there it is ‘The Emotion Code’ yeah. Thank you so much for being on our summit and look forward to getting to know you too, even beyond the summit, thank you so much.

Bradley Nelson, M.D. 

Great too, thank you, take care, bye bye.