- Trapped Emotions
I’m always very aware of all that I’ve been through. I
wanted to box it up, but that doesn’t work long-term.
~ Michelle Stevens, People Magazine, March 27, 2017
So, how do trapped emotions occur?
Energy imbalances, due to trapped emotions, can occur in multiple
ways, even to children and animals. Trapped emotions can be
inherited or absorbed. They can develop because a person does not
live in the moment. They can also occur when a person becomes
overly stressed, even by just dealing with daily life. Following are
examples of each.
Inherited Emotion
If one stops to think about it, we are the creation of both of our
parents. We not only inherit DNA from both sides of our parents’
families, we also inherit their trapped emotions, held in cellular
memory, sometimes through multiple generations.
Nancy, a friend, had a weak left arm. One day we were
just visiting. When I learned her left arm had always
been weak, I asked if I could do some emotional release
work with her. She agreed but was not sure what she
should expect. A few released emotions later, after a
miasm, or a maladaptive inherited energy came up,
she revealed her Dad had suffered the effects of polio
on his left side. She then understood the emotional
connection she had to her father’s dis-ease. The next day,
her left arm was “normal.”
Absorbed Emotions
Trapped emotions can occur by subconsciously absorbing them from
others. By the way, this is particularly true for empaths, those who
sense other’s emotions, especially if they forget to protect their own
energy fields.
One time I was in an office waiting to speak with
someone who was finishing other business. A man I
knew came into the office. When we began chatting
to pass the time, I was feeling fine. However, as he
shared information about his daughter’s upcoming
surgery, I felt as if I had just been gut punched. The
pain was intense, and I felt like I was going to either
pass out or puke. I left without talking to the person
I went to see. When I got into my car, I did emotional
release on myself. Because my emotions seemed
inappropriate for the situation, I asked my higher
self if these emotions belonged to me. The answer
was “No.” To whom did they belong? They belonged
to the man I was chatting with in the office. Why was
I feeling them? As an empath, I had not put up my
protective energetic shield, and I had absorbed his
emotions. I took a few moments to clear the emotions,
and I energetically sent them into the loving white
light of God. I kid you not, as soon as I did all this, the
gut-punched feeling disappeared. Completely.
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I worked with a baby who cried for a good week after being born.
By a fluke, the parents discovered the baby’s collarbone had been
broken during birth.With the mother’s permission, I released several
emotions, including a few (such as “guilt”) the infant had absorbed
from the nurse who had assisted in the birthing process. What struck
me was that the trapped emotions could have easily affected the rest of this
baby’s life and given him challenges into adulthood.
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A male client often spoke with a teenager in his
extended family. Due to her parents’ divorce, she was
experiencing major trauma in her life. We discovered
that the majority of the emotions released during
our sessions had to do with the client absorbing the
emotions of his teenaged relative.
Absorbed Emotions in Utero
As an energy healing practitioner, I am finding that emotions
absorbed in utero play a major factor in many people’s lives. During
any state of development, the fetus absorbs emotions primarily from
the mother in the womb. These emotions are not inherited as they did
not arrive with the parents’ sperm and egg.
Baby Zoe is an example of absorbed emotion in utero. Her emotions
were absorbed by her as a soon-to-be-born baby. If I had been unable
to help release the emotions she had absorbed from her mother, she
would have grown up with those emotions and not been aware of
where they came from or why she had them. The resulting symptoms
would have been almost impossible to trace.
I am an example of having absorbed my mother’s emotions when
she learned she was having twins. I was unaware of these emotions
until I was a full-grown adult. Through emotional release work, I
now realize some of the physical challenges I face are a direct result
of those trapped emotions in utero.
A mother had privately wondered if her 10-year-old
son was on the autism spectrum. She wondered if
there were any trapped emotions manifesting as his
behavior issues, and asked if I would work with her
son. I agreed. She was present the entire time in case
either her son or I had any questions. Every single one
of his emotions (and there were at least 10 of them in
this spontaneous session) was an absorbed emotion
from his time in utero. When I questioned the mother,
she shared that she did experience many emotionally
stressful situations while she was pregnant. The
mother continued to work on the issues that came up
in our session, and I am happy to report that she, and
her son, have both noticed a shift in his demeanor and
behavior.
Not-In-the-Moment Living
A very common way to develop trapped emotions or energetic
imbalances is not being focused, not being in the moment, not being
mindful. Put another way, we can trap emotions when we live by
habit or when we are not paying attention to our actions and emotions.