Understanding the Six Types of Trapped Emotions
An analytical overview of how emotional energies may originate, transfer, and become embedded.
Preconception Trapped Emotion
Explanation:
Some trapped emotions become lodged in the energy body prior to conception, but are not inherited from an ancestor.
This is a more specific type of absorbed emotion that occurs shortly before the individual's life begins. Preconception trapped emotions are relatively rare.
What it is: Emotional energy experienced by either the father or mother shortly before the moment of conception.
How it's Trapped: Similar to gestational emotions, the individual's spirit (or nascent energy) absorbs the intense emotional energy from the parents' environment or state of being just before conception, setting an energetic stage for the new life.
Timeline: Shortly before conception.
Inherited Trapped Emotion
Explanation:
In the same way that you can inherit your eye color from your father, or the shape of your nose from your mother, you can also inherit trapped emotions from your biological parents, received at the moment of conception.
These are the oldest emotions addressed, passed down through the family line.
What it is: Emotional energy that was generated by an ancestor (e.g., a great-grandparent) during an intense, traumatic, or unresolved emotional event.
How it's Trapped: The ancestral energy is believed to be passed down genetically or energetically to descendants at the moment of conception. The emotion wasn't trapped by you, but you inherited the energetic weakness associated with it.
Timeline: Can date back many generations.
Prenatal Trapped Emotion
Explanation:
Prenatal trapped emotions usually occur during the third trimester, and are often absorbed emotions from the mother, but can also originate with the fetus.
These are emotions absorbed by the individual while still in the womb.
What it is: The emotional energy experienced by the mother during the nine months of pregnancy.
How it's Trapped: The baby in utero is energetically connected to the mother. If the mother experiences high stress, grief, anxiety, or another intense emotion, the developing baby's subconscious mind can absorb and trap that emotional energy as its own.
Timeline: During the period of gestation.
Common Trapped Emotion
Explanation:
Negative emotions are vibrational frequencies that are generated by your organs and glands in response to stress, an experience, a negative thought, or an imbalance in the body. Negative emotions are a normal and valuable part of life, and an important part of your internal guidance system. An emotion can become trapped if it is overwhelming in some way, or if the normal emotional process (creating, experiencing, and letting go) gets interrupted somehow.
This is the most common type of trapped emotion and forms the bulk of the work.
What it is: A single, intense emotional energy that a person experienced at some point in their life (from birth to the present).
How it's Trapped: When you feel a strong emotion, that energy moves through your body. If you are stressed, overwhelmed, or suppressed at that moment, the energy can get stuck instead of being released. The subconscious mind essentially walls off the emotional energy to protect the rest of the body from its immediate effects.
Timeline: Anywhere from a few hours ago to early childhood.
Absorbed Trapped Emotion
Explanation:
Emotional energy taken in from another person's environment or emotional state where one person may trap the emotional energy of another person if the latter is feeling that emotion in a powerful way. These are known as absorbed trapped emotions, and can have the same effect as that of any other trapped emotions.
What it is: Emotional energy that originated in another person and was taken in by the client (the Absorber).
How it's Trapped: The client is typically highly empathetic or sensitive and is exposed to another person who is experiencing an intense emotion (e.g., Anger or Grief). The client's subconscious mind is unable to distinguish between their own emotional energy and the powerful external emotional energy, and it absorbs and traps the energy from the other person's field. The client then carries the burden of an emotion that wasn't originally theirs.
Key Distinction: The Emotion Code session will often identify the person the emotion was absorbed from (e.g., "Absorbed from Father"). Pre-Natal/Gestational and Pre-Conception emotions (Types 3 and 4) are specific sub-types of absorbed emotion.
Timeline: A specific time when the client was in close proximity to the person whose emotion they absorbed.
An emotion is more likely to be absorbed if:
The emotion resonates with your own imbalances.
The energy of the emotion is overwhelming to you in some way.
Shared Trapped Emotion
Explanation:
Shared emotions are created when people experience an emotionally intense event and together, develop the same vibrational frequency.
This type involves two individuals experiencing an emotion together, where the energy is trapped in both.
What it is: A single trapped emotional energy that is shared by two individuals who were present together during an intense emotional event.
How it's Trapped: The intense emotion (e.g., Despair or Sadness) occurs simultaneously between two people (e.g., a mother and child, or two partners) during a shared experience of trauma, loss, or stress. Both individuals fail to process the energy, and it becomes lodged in both of their bodies at the same time, essentially linking their emotional systems at that specific point.
Key Distinction: The Emotion Code session can identify that the emotion is shared and, once released from the client, the practitioner may be guided to address the same shared emotion in the other individual (with their permission).
Timeline: A specific moment in time when the two individuals were together.
These energies are very specific and must meet the following three criteria:
The people are experiencing the same exact event.
The people respond emotionally in the exact same way (the exact same frequency of emotion is created).
The event/stimulus is experienced at the exact same moment.
Shared emotions can be any emotion, but most are innately more painful or extreme, such as fear, grief, or shame.
A shared emotion needs only to be released from one person in order to release it from everyone else, since it is the same vibrational frequency.