Here is what Dr. Nelson (creator of Emotion and Body Code) says,

“In short, The Emotion Code is the simplest, easiest, and fastest method ever devised to find emotional baggage (using muscle testing) and release it, either from you or from someone else. Our emotional baggage consists of actual energies; the energies of intense emotional events that we’ve experienced that are still stuck in our physical bodies.

These energies distort the normal energy field of the body, creating pain, malfunction, all manner of disease, and even cancer. In addition, these energies (trapped emotions) are the driving force behind PTSD, depression, anxiety, phobias and all manner of mental illness.”

“Just about everyone has some amount of emotional baggage from painful life events, right? It’s not all in your head! Emotional Baggage is very real, and although it’s invisible it can really mess up your happiness, your success and your health. It’s like lugging around a suitcase from every difficult event you’ve gone through- eventually the load gets too heavy not to notice. I call each “suitcase” a Trapped Emotion- a bit of emotional energy that was created, by you, during an emotional event, and got stuck in your body somewhere.”